Re: NANFA-- Fish collecting device

Bruce Stallsmith (fundulus_at_hotmail.com)
Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:47:41 -0500

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Yeah, this kind of suction gun is more formally called a slurp gun.

--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL

>From: "Mark Otnes" <markotnes_at_email.msn.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: NANFA-- Fish collecting device
>Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:30:04 -0600
>
>I'm wondering if any of you NANFA people have ever seen or heard of
>anything
>like this; I swear that back when I was a kid a saw a picture of a skin
>diver who had what I can only describe as a suction gun, that he was using
>to collect fish. It consisted of a transparent cylinder attached to a
>vacuum chamber that you would point at the fish. Then there was a trigger
>that when pulled would cause the chamber to expand and the fish and its
>surrounding water would be sucked into the chamber.
>
>Is there such a thing? Was I dreaming or on drugs (it was 70's)?
>
>Mark Otnes
>Fargo ND

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