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[Simon1]

Does sound interesting.

 

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[Tom_Restorer]

Only when contracted. They used to cost 4000 $ each, but im sure the price has gone down now. They stay on the fish for 30 days before they pop off. It will float to the surface where it will transmit data via satellite back to the national marine fisheries. It will give a breadcrumb trail of where the fish went overlayed on a chart plotter. These guys stay around the same area. I think they are breeding when we do our tracking charters for the gov.

Blak bart,

what are you doing with them? Eating?

 

[Blak bart]

They are released after they are tagged to go free. Only reserch on these fish. The sawfish is a protected species.

 

[Simon1]

After they pop off and float to the service, they do not get recovered correct. They transmit until battery goes dead ?

 

[Blak bart]

Yup 4000$ of taxpayer money just floats away. There is a reward for there return but ive never been able to find one after it has popped off

 

[Simon1]

Not that I could do it, but wonder what they pay for the return ?

 

[Blak bart]

There sending a new female observer with us this trip. Never been on a shark boat before and she will have to spend the night on deck. I wouldnt send my daughter out with 3 guys that you dont know for 2-3days at sea. Hope it works out for her. One chick tryed to mace me once at sea. Cap told me to wake her up and I startled her awake. She hit me with mace and it blew straight back onto her !! Salt water makes it burn worse. Hope this chick is cool.

 

[Blak bart]

Change of plans......blowing 20 knots out of the northwest. Not gonna beat ourselves to death. We will wait one more day. Only about 4 ft out there but waves are 2 second intervals. Washing machine conditions !!!

 

[pepperj]

Saturday turned into Sunday which left for a Monday morning ice rink.

 

[pepperj]

It's so slippery the pic fell.

 

[Tom_Restorer]

It's so slippery the pic fell.

Hi Jim!

 

[pepperj]

Hi Jim!

Hi Tom
House arrest because of this storm Lol internet spotty thanks to the cloud cover.

 

[against the wind]

Yesterday I visited the ruins of the Austin Dam in Austin, Pennsylvania. This dam broke in September, 1911. 500 million gallons of water flooded the valley and wiped out most of the structures that were downstream.

 

[Tom_Restorer]

Yesterday I visited the ruins of the Austin Dam in Austin, Pennsylvania. This dam broke in September, 1911. 500 million gallons of water flooded the valley and wiped out most of the structures that were downstream.

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500 million gallons...



Good area to detect!

 

[ARC]

 

[ARC]

quite in here today... crickets are not even chirping.

 

[Blak bart]

Chirp chirp chirp

 

[ARC]

***ARC listens closely... And thinks he hears a "pirate cricket" ***

 

[Blak bart]

Ha ha !! Yup us pirates are always quietly lurking !!

 

[ARC]

Ha ha !! Yup us pirates are always quietly lurking !!

Chirping ?

I always thought that sound was "burping" from rum.

:/