stackyFACTSTo satisfy massive demand for these bottom-dwelling oddities in global cuisines, desperate divers routinely risk paralysis and death descending to extreme depths with makeshift breathing hoses. The entire supply chain is held together by perilous labor extracting a creature that essentially looks like an underwater potato.
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