A few days later he bought us both slick-bottomed Morey body boards, swim fins and a pair of black, white and neon-checkered Quicksilver board shorts for me. While my father was off at work in the city, Gabe and I spent entire days in the ocean. . Once we made it out to the open ocean, my dad stretched into his thick blue wetsuit and strapped a big diving knife to his leg. It was such a crazy mystery to watch him and Auggie disappear backwards into the blue.