In the Odyssey, Part 2, what danger do Scylla and Charydbis pose to Odysseus and his crew?

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Consider what/whom they had just escaped from ... and then they run into this!

The saying "Out of the frying pan and into the fire" comes to mind!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&pwst=1&ei=WWyFS4CFBIiSNuS6gDQ&sa=X&oi=spellfullpage&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=2&ved=0CAYQvwUoAQ&&q=Scylla+and+Charybdis+in+odyssey&spell=1
You have heard the expression - "the horns of a delimma"? This is a dramatic instance of that problem. No matter which way Odysseus jumped he was going to have a BIG problem.
Read this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis
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