A 74-year-old man jumped into the Gulf of Mexico and got a small cut on his leg. Three days later, the leg was on a surgical table. The bacterium hadn't changed. The water had.

Loki considers Travis McGee — knight errant, houseboat philosopher, and resident of Fort Lauderdale — as perhaps the ultimate counterexample to everything Florida Man represents, and wonders what it means that both can exist in the same state simultaneously.