geoduck picking question

[Andrew the fish]

I see tons of geoducks under water, below tidal zone. Literally everywhere if bottom is sandy and not solid rock. How can they be picked up? Not by pulling on one end I suppose. Internet search brings either diggin with big PVC pipe, or commercial video's. In commercial harvest they seem to used some kind of nozzle with water jet I guess to wash them out, hard to see exatcly what divers are doing from video. I wonder if there is a technique freediver can use.

 

[manalive!]

I've never heard of geoducks, I had to look them up. All I can say is they look obscene!!!!

 

[Andrew the fish]

well, they are. And good eating too. There is quite a few of them here in BC, totally legal to harvest, not sure about other places. But, will probably take a bit of technique or special tools to harvest them on a single breath hold dive. Hence is the question - how?

 

[Gronchula]

They use water pumps to airate/liquify the sand to pull them out I beleive, as they can dig themselves deeper into the sand faster than you could dig them out.