When a UPS plane takes off, the air in the bag is under a certain atmospheric pressure. And so the bag would feel tense. When the plane gets to thirty four thousand feet, even though the cabin may be pressurized, because the air is so thin up there. But even still, the pressure in the cabin is not quite as great as it was on the ground, and so the bag gets even tenser. Finally, the bag bursts and water pours out and the fish dies in the UPS plane.
Fish arrives alive.
I remember flying one of Kaz Takeda's fish home on the plane. And in flight, I got up to see about this fish, and the bag was so tight it made that squeaking noise that balloons do when you rub on them. I was dumb lucky. Don't take that out of context. Back to Top.