No, this isn't one of my fanciful fishing stories. This actually happened (and we got the pictures to prove it!!)

Recently we were approached by the museum of New Zealand to relocate some of their Fish Specimens.

This job was made interesting by the fact that these fish were of such a HUGE size ( as you can see by the photos ) and the rather fragrant preserving solutions that the monsters were residing in…

The relocation involved draining the preserving fluid, then lifting the fish out of tanks ( we had to use a fork truck to lift some of the bigger fish) and placing them on our trucks for transportation to their new home.

Once they were at the new site, we had to replace the fish in their new tanks and replace the preserving fluid, which involved members of the crew actually getting into the tanks with the fish while we poured the highly pungent fluid in around them.

Apparently, when one of our crew returned home at the end of the day, He was greeted at the door by his wife who sternly advised him " CLOTHES OFF, INTO THE SHOWER, YOU WASH YOUR CLOTHES…..AND DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH THE KIDS !!!!

It is always gratifying to see a job that seems to be full of new and interesting challenges turn into the success story that this has become.

It is being successful with the more complex or unusual relocations, that sets FREEAR PHILIP apart from the rest…