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  >> Carcharodon carcharias (The Great White, or White Pointer) has eaten (not

  Are sharks the only sea animal dangerous to man as a predator rather than as
a stinger? In the 1960's I read a few times of supergiant groupers swallowing
snorkellers, and of one such victim that managed to escape through its gills.
I read a small article in a 1960's or 1970's issue of `Skin Diver' (a USA
scuba diving magazine) of a supergiant grouper trying to swallow a scuba
diver: it suddenly rushed out of ambush and sucked him completely into its
mouth, fins and all, but ejected him alive with his cylinder dented right in
by the heavy crushing teeth on the inside of its gill cage. Arthur C.Clarke in
a book "The Reefs of Taprobane" that he wrote about one of his diving
expeditions, wrote that in the Elphinstone Inlet on the coast of Ceylon (now
Sri Lanka) in an enormous sunken `floating dock' he saw a grouper over 20 feet
long, and 4 feet wide side to side, and in his opinion able to swallow a scuba
diver whole, cylinder and all.

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