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>>> Carcharodon carcharias (The Great White, or White Pointer) has eaten I replied:- >> ... I read ... of supergiant groupers swallowing snorkellers ... in his opinion able to swallow a scuba diver whole, cylinder and all. on Thu 2 Jun 1994 09:32:51 +0930 shelps@ac*.ma*.ad*.ed*.au* (Prime Rat) wrote (Subject: Re: great white sharks (was: Re: diving physio tidbits)):- > Ah yes, monsters of the deep. The main difficulty a grouper would have I suspect is getting the delicious diver out of that wrapping. The shark that took John Lee at Aldinga shook him so violently (to get at the best part) that it shook his wetsuit right off, even getting his boots off. Perhaps one of the icthyologists would like to comment? Not if he dived without a suit, as some do in tropical water. Or if it swallows stones as ballast and to break up large prey, as crocodiles do. Or if it can wait while its digestive juices work their way in from the suit's openings, particularly if its pharyngeal teeth tore the suit open. How good would it be at regurgitating or passing indigestible gear afterwards?, same as when it swallows a stone along with an octopus that was clinging to it.
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