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  > 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?

  Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*> replied
on Thu 9 Jun 1994 08:27:33 +22305714 (HST):-
  > These groupers can do some pretty fierce shaking themsleves - but they
lack the tools to effectively cut through wetsuits, tank straps, etc.

  Not needed. It would simply swallow him, equipment and airtanks and weights
and all, and eject the equipment later, same as an owl ejects a mouse's fur
and bones afterwards. Groupers have been reported big enough to do that. I can
imagine the monster's lair in the reef, with a "dragon's treasure hoard" of
undigested diving gear accumulated in and around it.

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