'Best Job in the World' Winner Stung by Deadly Jellyfish

[austin552]

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[m21sniper]

Fk the ocean.

LOL

[onlycafe]

put some peanut butter on it.

[ODDJOB UNO]

NOT a LAUGHING MATTER if you were the juan stung! as a diver these bastids SUCK BIG TIME! like DEATH!

the lil babies are damn near inwhizable to the naked eye. in down under waters it is highly advizable to "BOOT UP"(wear a full wet/dry suit) summer or winter.


no really known facts about them. kind of come and go as they please. no known "breeding grounds" and they just float with currents. beach areas and open ocean.

endemic to australia/coral sea area.


i have bean stung by jelly fish and it sucks. dont ask me what kind except the "stinging kind". adolphs meat tenderizer or PEE on the sting until you can see doctor. and even then all they will give you is some aspirin.


leaves a very nice RED WELT that will make you linger in pain for days and make you damn near want to GNAW your leg or arm off!

the smallest ittsy bittsy part of the entire family on your skin, is enough to sting the living HELL OUT OF YOU!

and the sucky part............the jellyfish family is endemic to all the oceans.


not alot known about them and a PERFECT MARINE BIOLOGY U.S. GOVT. grant that could be had, to study them around the world and report back to AL GORE............and take samples/pictures of them..........and get stung by them!

[m21sniper]

I assume it was a box jellyfish that he was stung by?

I just stay out of the ocean. I don't like water much to begin with(I'm Irish, so i get roasted if i'm in the water all day). I especially don't like salt water, or medical waste that washes ashore, or highly refined 2 ton predators that can swim 5x faster than me either.

LOL.

To me, the closest i ever want to get to scuba diving is an IMAX movie.

[Embraer]

I got stung by a stingray last may off Venice Beach in Florida. My left foot was numb for about 6 weeks before I got any feeling back. I didn't go to the hospital when it happened....but within two hours I was throwing up, feverish, and my heart was racing.

When it happened, I pulled my pocket knife out and performed surgery on myself. I THOUGHT i got all of the barb out, but about 2 weeks later another chunk "surfaced" in the wound. Felt like I got hit again.

The initial feeling of getting hit is weird...it truly does feel like getting electrocuted. It felt like i was hit with lightning...paralyzing me instantly. When it got me, I was probably 100 yards off shore in 4 foot deep water. I dropped like a sack of potatoes, and managed to pull myself back to shore.

NOT FUN.

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

I assume it was a box jellyfish that he was stung by?

I just stay out of the ocean. I don't like water much to begin with(I'm Irish, so i get roasted if i'm in the water all day). I especially don't like salt water, or medical waste that washes ashore, or highly refined 2 ton predators that can swim 5x faster than me either.

LOL.

To me, the closest i ever want to get to scuba diving is an IMAX movie.

lather you up with some maui brown sun lube, slap a BRIGHT COLORED drysuit/wetsuit on you and you will look just like me.....................A GIANT ASSED FISH LURE!

you will never see nor feel the JUAN THAT GITS YA! key in JAWS MUZAK here!


crap i have a better chance of getting killed by a drunk on the road or lightning or a freeking terrorist on a plane, than being eaten by a shark.


but i will say watching the tiger sharks MUNCH THE HELL OUT OF TORTUGAS(turtles) about 3 city blocks north of the kanapali beach resort(whalers villiage-maui) drunk on my ass on rum with my buddy who lives in lahaina was MORE FUN than i had in a long time.

tigers came right up on reef and had a smorgazboard. we watched in utter amazement for a coupla hours. i think the tortugas were very very STOO-PID to hang around there.

now just 3 city blocks south just picture multiple mega buck resorts, with groomed beaches and all these morons out there on their honeymoons swimming at dawn and dusk..............NOW THATS STOOOOOOOOOOOOO-PID!

[m21sniper]

I have no chance of being eaten by a shark, i stay out of the ocean.

I was down in Florida a few years ago and got myself a ride on the back of a dolphin(yes, true story). What struck me most about the entire experience was the fact that the dolphin could close in on you and pop his head out of the water mere inches from your face BEFORE you even knew it was there.

I imagine a shark can do the same thing. Yikes.

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by Embraer

I got stung by a stingray last may off Venice Beach in Florida. My left foot was numb for about 6 weeks before I got any feeling back. I didn't go to the hospital when it happened....but within two hours I was throwing up, feverish, and my heart was racing.

When it happened, I pulled my pocket knife out and performed surgery on myself. I THOUGHT i got all of the barb out, but about 2 weeks later another chunk "surfaced" in the wound. Felt like I got hit again.

The initial feeling of getting hit is weird...it truly does feel like getting electrocuted. It felt like i was hit with lightning...paralyzing me instantly. When it got me, I was probably 100 yards off shore in 4 foot deep water. I dropped like a sack of potatoes, and managed to pull myself back to shore.

NOT FUN.

yep it sucks BIG TIME! have seen divers not wear a hood and get those lil bastids on their face. man thats an ugly assed wound!

saw a chick off of la jolla get nailed across her legs and she was SCREAMING IN AGONY until lifeguards got to her.

with a full wet/dry suit and a full face mask(mines a scubapro) yer pretty impervious to those bastids.

hawaii has quite a few beaches marked with porteguese man o war/jelly fish warning signs.

if ya see them floating around docks/see them dead on the beach at hightide line...............well ya gots a decision to make that day. make the smart decisions and either BOOT UP or go drinking/fishing/sightseeing or go swim in the hotel pool with all your dive gear on and you'll look cool!

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by m21sniper

I have no chance of being eaten by a shark, i stay out of the ocean.

I was down in Florida a few years ago and got myself a ride on the back of a dolphin(yes, true story). What struck me most about the entire experience was the fact that the dolphin could close in on you and pop his head out of the water mere inches from your face BEFORE you even knew it was there.

I imagine a shark can do the same thing. Yikes.

heres a little hawaiian local knowledge dealing with MANOS(sharks). when you see DOL-PHINKS(dolphins/porpoises) its a very good bet that its SAFE to swim in the area. they are natural enemies and will fight to the DEATH!

problem is most flatlanders cant tell a shark fin from a dolphin fin from a cadillac fin! so anytime a fin is sighted its automatically a shark!

most attacks occur:

cloudy water sharky cant see, mistakes you for prey.

dawn(hungry)dusk(hungry)

wearing black wetsuit makes you look like seal YUM!

jelly fish mostly are at surface and get wasted by tidal action and then break apart and float around surfline shoreline until beached. untawata you see complete jellyfish and they are cool to look at just stay away from them.(DUH!)

[gtc]

Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO

i have bean stung by jelly fish and it sucks. dont ask me what kind except the "stinging kind".
...
leaves a very nice RED WELT that will make you linger in pain for days and make you damn near want to GNAW your leg or arm off!

Same here. I took one across the chest off the coast of Java about 15 years ago. I never even saw the thing, so I can't guess what species it was. It must have been pretty harmless because aside from the ridiculous pain and nasty welt, there weren't any other symptoms.
IIRC, the pain went away after a few days (the crazy intense pain only lasted an hour or so), but the scar-like welt took a few weeks to fade.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO

NOT a LAUGHING MATTER if you were the juan stung! as a diver these bastids SUCK BIG TIME! like DEATH!

the lil babies are damn near inwhizable to the naked eye. in down under waters it is highly advizable to "BOOT UP"(wear a full wet/dry suit) summer or winter.


no really known facts about them. kind of come and go as they please. no known "breeding grounds" and they just float with currents. beach areas and open ocean.

endemic to australia/coral sea area.


i have bean stung by jelly fish and it sucks. dont ask me what kind except the "stinging kind". adolphs meat tenderizer or PEE on the sting until you can see doctor. and even then all they will give you is some aspirin.


leaves a very nice RED WELT that will make you linger in pain for days and make you damn near want to GNAW your leg or arm off!

the smallest ittsy bittsy part of the entire family on your skin, is enough to sting the living HELL OUT OF YOU!

and the sucky part............the jellyfish family is endemic to all the oceans.


not alot known about them and a PERFECT MARINE BIOLOGY U.S. GOVT. grant that could be had, to study them around the world and report back to AL GORE............and take samples/pictures of them..........and get stung by them!

I don't go to Australia and I don't go in the toilet (ocean). So I don't care about jellyfish. I like being on the top of the food chain.

[ODDJOB UNO]

yes it was a BOX jellyfish.

[tcar]

Yes, Box Jellyfish. Irukandji. They kill quite a few people each year.

"Irukandji are tiny and extremely venomous jellyfish that are found mostly near Australia.

They are roughly no larger than a fingernail of an adult's little finger."

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I don't go to Australia and I don't go in the toilet (ocean). So I don't care about jellyfish. I like being on the top of the food chain.

that is not what we want to hear!

A) down under is on my bucket list. how can you wrong a country with the highest beer per capita in the world!

B) the ocean is NOT a toilet unless of course YOU let a GROWLER LOOSE!

C) you should care about JELLYFISH because they have FEELINGS! and the next time you go walking along the beach with your honey for a romantic walk and you see some clear SMEGMA, 1/2 buried in the sand, you wont try and get LUCKY at that area of the beach. knowledge is power and you will avoid going to the hospital and explaining why she has stings all over her butt or your butt if shes on top.

D) you only THINK your on the top of the food chain.............THEY are OUT THERE..............WAITING FOR YOU, with a MENU with YOUR NAME on it!

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by tcar

Yes, Box Jellyfish. Irukandji. They kill quite a few people each year.

"Irukandji are tiny and extremely venomous jellyfish that are found mostly near Australia.

They are roughly no larger than a fingernail of an adult's little finger."

the entire family is amazing to watch in their environment. to get good pics you need a MACRO lens or the huevos to get close and hope no surge drives you into them.

off of the east side of maui we found a dead portoguese(sp) man-o-war on the lava. washed up from the last high tide. looked like a GIANT BAG OF SMEGMA with 3-4 ft tentacles coming off of it. weird as hell looking creature. apparently the sail is what it gets its mo-jo from while on the surface. how they move unterwater is a ?. very unlike standard jellyfish that have hydro jet propulsion(suck and blow) action to move them.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I don't go to Australia and I don't go in the toilet (ocean). So I don't care about jellyfish. I like being on the top of the food chain.

+1

I prefer to maintain my natural position as a super predator. I need to be on land for that.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by tcar

Yes, Box Jellyfish. Irukandji. They kill quite a few people each year.

"Irukandji are tiny and extremely venomous jellyfish that are found mostly near Australia.

They are roughly no larger than a fingernail of an adult's little finger."

WTF, you can't even see them?

Yikes.

[cairns]

The box jellyfish is not an irukandji. Most boxes are large and avoidable; irukandjis are small and very, very hard to see- practically invisible. Either can kill you but the box can also leave ugly scars.

Jellyfish season in Australia runs from November to March. You either swim inside a stinger net or wear a wetsuit- he should have known better and was lucky. Many Australian beaches have vinegar bottles every few hundred meters for treatment of stings.

Australia is famous for it's nasties; my wife loves the spiders (not).

[m21sniper]

Dingos, jellyfish, great whites, bad-ass little kangaroos, Crocs, oh my!