How come you didn’t leave when you had the chance?

To the south, as Halliday followed the winding course of the river, the darkness gave way to the deep indigo tracts of the irrigation project, the lines of canals forming an exquisite bonelike gridwork.”

Klages, Michael; Muyakshin, Sergey; Soltwedel, Thomas; Arntz, Wolf (2002-01-04), “Mechanoreception, a possible mechanism for food fall detection in deep-sea scavengers”, in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, volume 49, issue 1, Bibcode: 2002DSRI...49..143K, DOI:10.1016/S0967-0637(01)00047-4, pages 143–155: “The problem for any scavenger inhabiting the seafloor is the unpredictability both in space and time of food fall events.”

I think they had over 300 people there, all told.