There are special tools for opening crates that make great reef companions. They look like cruciform crowbars and have a hammer, axe and pry bar at one end. Put it in your checked luggage...
https://www.etsy.com/listing/90055981/vintage-industrial-crate-tool-tomahawk
Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
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