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Risk your divers to the potential for injury!?!?!? Wow, okay. Have fun.
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Matthew
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Babydamulag:
bad idea huh? Ok I'm offering you free accomodation and dives to do just that. I want to count how many you can kill in a day, without injury to yourself.
Diver Dennis
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Depending on how they look if you take dry them on land, you could sell them to tourists.
OP
this is no popcorn thread guys.
the area i mentioned has carpet of COTs literally.
what we do is remove them and as mike says baked them in the sun and bury them.
we have done this successfully and no injuries as we use long tongs or poles to pick them up and we use modified baskets where they are placed while we do the harvest.
it is more efficient if it is done in teams of two. one holds the modified basket while the other picks the COTs.
the modified basket as mentioned is made with the opening wide open already, almost a diameter in opening so that the COTs is just dropped into the opening. the handle of the basket is held by the buddy about a meter up the opening. i get around 30pcs per dive with sizes around half a diameter.
hence there is considerable distance between divers and COTs.
lets not turn this into a popcorn thread on who is better or not in the manner of COts control. if it works it works.
though starfishes are known to regenerate if if injured or its appendage gets cut if given the chance to grow back.
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the area i mentioned has carpet of COTs literally.
what we do is remove them and as mike says baked them in the sun and bury them.
we have done this successfully and no injuries as we use long tongs or poles to pick them up and we use modified baskets where they are placed while we do the harvest.
it is more efficient if it is done in teams of two. one holds the modified basket while the other picks the COTs.
the modified basket as mentioned is made with the opening wide open already, almost a diameter in opening so that the COTs is just dropped into the opening. the handle of the basket is held by the buddy about a meter up the opening. i get around 30pcs per dive with sizes around half a diameter.
hence there is considerable distance between divers and COTs.
lets not turn this into a popcorn thread on who is better or not in the manner of COts control. if it works it works.
though starfishes are known to regenerate if if injured or its appendage gets cut if given the chance to grow back.
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clgsamson
Koya Kap
I want a popcorn moment here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!paolov:
Diver Dennis
Contributor
I was serious about drying them out and selling them. In Micronesia I saw all sorts of sea life sold after it was dried. It would be a shame to just bury them if they could be used to generate some cash for the locals.
OP
Diver Dennis:
as soon as they are removed from the sea, they readily dehydrate and the cells collapse and the remains become a gooey mess.
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Diver Dennis
Contributor
Ahhh. I though they might have an exoskeleton. Could they be used for fertilizer?
pakman
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paolov:
bottle it and sell them to the K tourists... tell them its a local aphrodisiac...
:lol:
mrjimboalaska
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Pao, while I've never dried one myself(we haul em out and throw away) I've seen them on ebay sell fro $20 plus shipping........I guess I'll dry one and see if it goes to goo. They are starting up here in a few spots the buds and I dive. Good luck getting rid of them, they do kill the reef.....Jimbo
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