Who Doesn't Hate Jewfish?

[Rick Murchison]

... If a diver can't fit through, neither can a large jew fish.

This statement shocked me! Even *monster* Jewfish can fit through surprisingly small holes. I've marveled for years at how a 400 pounder can fit through a hole I can't begin to navigate. And the ones shown look like much smaller fish.

Rick

 

[HalcyonDaze]

This statement shocked me! Even *monster* Jewfish can fit through surprisingly small holes. I've marveled for years at how a 400 pounder can fit through a hole I can't begin to navigate. And the ones shown look like much smaller fish.

Rick

Yep, I'm always amazed at how I'll see 3 or 4 nice-sized ones all stuff themselves in the same hole; take a look in and it's like a clown car in there.

As far as sucking fish in through the intake pipes, I'm not surprised. My old lab in California used to get a lot of the fish used for undergraduate dissections from what got sucked into the San Onofree power plant's system. My favorite story was from a former Navy officer who was aboard the old USS Texas (CGN-39); one day they sucked a respectable-sized hammerhead shark into the seawater cooling system for the reactors and found out about it when they sent a sailor in to see what the problem was. Regrettably but understandably they had to kill it with what the officer described as a BAW - "Big A** Wrench."

 

[WheelsUSN]

Simply not possible.
Since then, that intake pipe has been carefully monitored to make sure there are no breaks in the grate protecting divers from entering. If a diver can't fit through, neither can a large jew fish.

It appears that a 350 pound loggerhead managed to fit through in August.

Huge loggerhead sea turtle rescued from St. Lucie Nuclear Plant canal released at Juno Beach » TCPalm.com

That same month they removed a leatherback from the canal that was estimated to be 600-700 pounds.

 

[Superlyte27]

Absolutely NOT true. I was diving there maybe 2 years ago. They were sucking water in hard. There was no grates. It was exceedingly dangerous. It sucked in one spearfisherman's floatline and we had to cut it.

Wow, that is surprising. We used to inspect it every 2 years. The "holes" in the bars were less than 8" x 8". You're saying the bars aren't there at all anymore? I hope a diver doesn't have to get sucked up before they take this issue seriously again.

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Wow, that is surprising. We used to inspect it every 2 years. The "holes" in the bars were less than 8" x 8". You're saying the bars aren't there at all anymore? I hope a diver doesn't have to get sucked up before they take this issue seriously again.

We were freediving around them in not good visibility and some surge, I won't go there again.