Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Joe" wrote
| Guess what sea creatures kills more people per year in Oz than Crocks,
| Sharks and Rays combined?



I'd guess jelly fish.

Jelly fish is correct, but not the Man-O-War but the box jelly fish
who's venom is 300 time more toxic(and painful) than the man-o-war. Now
they even think a pea sized box jelly fish may be killing people as
they are getting stung in areas that have jelly fish nets up. Saw it
on National geographic the other night. Were the tails hit these people
it looked like they were beaten with a heavy cable that left welps and
bruises. They showed the harpoons under a electro microscope, the
harpoons all wound up in venom pockets, when they hit anything they
explode out fast enough to go deep under the skin and into the blood
stream, the harpoon hairs are 1/1000th the thickness of a human hair.

BTW our marina if full of marble to baseball size jelly fish right now,
mostly cabbage heads and a few Man-o-wars, they make a cool green glow
as the chopped up parts swirl down the head.

Joe

Man-o-wars. People are probably allergic like bee stings.
Or maybe baked peanut fish fillets. People die from peanut allergy. They'd probably never guess
their fish was cooked with peanuts....

Cheers,
Ellen