sea urchins rule!

Many years ago I worked in a Urchin/Uni processing plant. From the docks taking them off the boats. (Harvested by divers) to the sorting room. Was eventually offered the the Manager position but moved on.. Was in Port Orford, Oregon. Got tagged with a spine right in the kneecap. Took a bit of minor surgery to get the damned thing out. Uni isn't the roe, it's just called that by restaurants. It's really the ol' gonads.. :cool:
 
did you take pictures? good story. :rose:


As a matter of fact, I did take some underwater photographs; regrettably, the resolution and water clarity is insufficient to see the sea urchins.


Once again, though, I gave them a wide berth. Even with my fins, I didn't want to take any chance of accidentally brushing against one.





E.T.A.:
The "Flapper Series" is quite nice. Congratulations.


 
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As a matter of fact, I did take some underwater photographs; regrettably, the resolution and water clarity is insufficient to see the sea urchins.


Once again, though, I gave them a wide berth. Even with my fins, I didn't want to take any chance of accidentally brushing against one.





E.T.A.:
The "Flapper Series" is quite nice. Congratulations.



Sheesh.

It's like a bindy.

Ok. You take the sea urchin and you get a knife and you crack it open. You pull out the teeth, wash 'em under some cold water. Grab a couple of the teeth and dig the spike out. No infection, hardly any pain. Amateurs :)
 

As a matter of fact, I did take some underwater photographs; regrettably, the resolution and water clarity is insufficient to see the sea urchins.


Once again, though, I gave them a wide berth. Even with my fins, I didn't want to take any chance of accidentally brushing against one.





E.T.A.:
The "Flapper Series" is quite nice. Congratulations.



i understand. :)

:rose: thank you very much, i will have completed 6 (hopefully) in total come april.
 
Many years ago I worked in a Urchin/Uni processing plant. From the docks taking them off the boats. (Harvested by divers) to the sorting room. Was eventually offered the the Manager position but moved on.. Was in Port Orford, Oregon. Got tagged with a spine right in the kneecap. Took a bit of minor surgery to get the damned thing out. Uni isn't the roe, it's just called that by restaurants. It's really the ol' gonads.. :cool:

yikes!!! glad you're okay. :D
 
they eat with a star and poop/fuck with an octagon.

And they don't even really fuck with it.

Sea urchins are dioecious, having separate male and female sexes, although there is generally no easy way to distinguish the two, except for their location on the sea bottom. Males generally choose an elevated and exposed location so that their milt can be broadcast by sea currents. Females generally choose a low-lying location in sea bottom crevices, presumably so that the tiny larvae can have better protection from predators. Indeed, very small sea urchins are always found hiding underneath rocks. Regular sea urchins have five gonads, lying underneath the interambulacral regions of the test, while the irregular forms have only four, with the hindmost gonad being absent. Each gonad has a single duct, rising from the upper pole to open at a gonopore lying in one of the genital plates surrounding the anus. The gonads are lined with muscles underneath the peritoneum, and these allow the animal to squeeze its gametes through the duct and into the surrounding sea water, where fertilization takes place.[1]

Oooh . . . Yeah . . .
 
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my seaurchin story

The ex and I were visiting Porto Rico with her niece and sister. We went to the beach one day and decided to walk barefoot through the shallow surf to a rock outcropping about 25 yards offshore. I was carrying the child on my shoulders the whole way. We walked out, and most of the way back with no mishaps. Then the ex went down in the water, yelling. I looked down and saw that the entire area we had walked through was carpeted with the spiny little bastards, and somehow I hadn't stepped on one. She wasn't so lucky. We made it back to shore, but she was on crutches the rest of the vaca.
 
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