The following is an email that I sent out on July 29, 2016 with a Prelog and Prolog added for the reader to put the story in context. Prelog: Since moving to San Diego in 2001, I have been swimming with friends at La Jolla bay. At first the swims were during the summer to break the training boredom of swimming pools. After a while, we started to swim year-round. For sure every Friday morning before work and during the summer usually another on Monday or Tuesday. La Jolla is a wonderful place to swim because it is protected from boats and during the summer, the city places buoys out there for the swimmers. There is a ball buoy ¼ and ½ mile measured from the Cove. There are 6 more can buoys set up to create a “lane” or rectangle leading out to the measured buoys. Somewhere around 2010, the harbor seals started to take over the La Jolla cove. They were really fun to swim with but they really leave the beach an...