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Four Saved From Giant Vat Of Fish Feces
May 12, 2007

Massachusetts - This nasty rescue is no fish tale. Rescuers cut through
a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell
into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western
Massachusetts farm.

The workers became trapped for 45 minutes after a bracket holding a
plastic filtration pad collapsed as workers stood on it to clean the
fiberglass tank at the Australis Aquaculture fish farm, said Capt. David
Dion of the Turners Falls Fire Department and the fish farm's manager
Josh Goldman.

One of the farmhands fell below what Dion described as a sand-and-feces
mix, while the other three had their heads above the sludge, he said.

Goldman said the workers and the pad, which collects bacteria created by
fish urine and feces, like some household aquarium filters, fell to the
bottom of the tank.

"Everybody's present and accounted for," Goldman said. "A couple of the
guys even came back to say hi."

Rescuers slashed through the feces mix until they were able to pull out
the workers, Dion said.

"It was very slimy and it was heavy," he said. "Never seen anything like
it in my life."

One worker who became submerged in the feces was airlifted to Bay State
Medical Center in Springfield, but was talking with paramedics and did
not appear to have life-threatening injuries, Dion said. The other three
were taken by ambulance to a local hospital with minor injuries.

Dion said rescue workers cut a hole in the side of the tank at the farm
which raises barramundi, a new fish farmed as a replacement for grouper.

Written by Associated Press