Not clam poachers
Ronaldo Castanaga
2 April 2009
Re: That’s illegal
Jess, mind you, I’m clean. I was very young then and single.
Kwajalein Island is a very lonely place to work. To survive, cultivate a passion for golf, fish, man a powerboat or jetski and scuba dive on weekends. Or else, you’ll lose your mind bewildered.
I was with my friends diving in the island of Roi Namur and stumbled on a pile of giant clams, maybe tons of them. Five of us, we took one each. Two of my friends are nuclear scientists and as soon as we reached ashore, they measured the radioactive dose of each clam. Only one clam registered zero radiation and the rest, we put them back carefully on the same pile location. We were responsible adults and we know the safe threshold limit of a fission products of an atomic explosion in the area.
Contamination could be fatal. Call it curiosity kills the cat but what the heck, a clam meat dipped in a Toyomansi is magnetic to the Ilocano palate. One clam will not hurt tons of multiplyng clams. And no poachers either, the area is highly restricted.
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