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SteveJ • May 30, 2008 5:42 PM
Would have needed fewer if they’d frozen it first.
Anonymous • June 1, 2008 1:53 AM
@Davi:
I guess it’s a bit like moving a carpet; much harder when the load is flexible, and has no handholds. And unlike carpets, squid are also slippery!
girl in the bloody dress • June 1, 2008 8:40 AM
I’m sorry, I just don’t get it. What’s the fascination with squid!?
miked • June 6, 2008 2:01 AM
@girl, these giant squid are facinating to some people…esp because of old stories that tell of a time when men feared these creatures when sailing far out at sea….and that no one has seen them in modern times. their foreold size has never been physically verified.
@Davi, im guessing that the mass of the squid was difficult to move, being not a rigid structure. 🙂 Though I agree with you that these fishermen are probably used to dealing with dynamic loading and unloading, and obtuse lifting tasks.
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Davi Ottenheimer • May 30, 2008 5:01 PM
“a fisheries research biologist, said it took 10 men to lift the squid”
What? Only 50 lbs per person? And they call themselves fishermen.