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Default What happens when the boat STOPS and you hear a really loud BANG!!!!

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:44:17 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

When I was a kid at summer camp I saw a dead snapping turtle that was
about four foot long in the shell. Over two hundered pounds. This in a
small Minnesota lake. I understand some salt water turtles run much
bigger.


Yes, much bigger.

We once saw a dead sea turtle washed up on a beach on Nantucket that
was about 7 to 8 feet long and at over a foot thick. It probably
weighed over 1,000 pounds.