Guess what sea creatures kills more people per year in Oz than Crocks,
Sharks and Rays combined?

Joe

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

Joe

sea snakes or dolphins?

Joe wrote:

Guess what sea creatures kills more people per year in Oz than Crocks,
Sharks and Rays combined?


cigarettes

I understand that they are all over the ocean beaches down there

DSK

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



I'd guess jelly fish. 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

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

"Joe" wrote
| 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.


Ewwww! Something to worry about in Australia. I'm glad there's none on the Gold Coast.
I googled them and read http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/.../jellyfish.htm
It says stings are almost always fatal. Square jellyfish. Weird!

Cheers,
Ellen

OzOne wrote:
On 20 Sep 2006 10:15:45 -0700, "Joe"
scribbled thusly:

Guess what sea creatures kills more people per year in Oz than Crocks,
Sharks and Rays combined?

Joe

Just goes to show how few deaths from crocks sharks and rays there
are....


Yeah right..
Coming from the man with over 8000 stitches from a crock attack early
last April i'll be sure to stay in rough water if Im swimming and avoid
square jelly fish like the plague.

Here in the Gulf of Mexico if you swim allot you are going to get
stung. Man o wars are bad enough, it's hard to imagine 300 times worse,
the effect they showed on people looked very bad. Next you will claim
the Blue-ringed octopus is friendly and Cone shell harpoons are great
to pick your teeth with.

Joe

Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Here in the Gulf of Mexico if you swim allot you are going to get
stung.

Same in most of the Chesapeake, and the NC sounds too.


... Man o wars are bad enough, it's hard to imagine 300 times worse,

"Fatal" is pretty bad.


OzOne wrote:
While Australia has recorded 70 deaths since 1884, the records in
other countries are far worse.

"If you look at the Philippines, they get about 90 fatalities a year
from box jellyfish," said Dr Gershwin.


Yeah, but what they don't tell you is that's from people
trying to eat them.


http://www.underwatertimes.com/news....id=18954603710

Time for another gun thread? :-)


Yeah! Gun Thread, GUN THREAD!!!

What kind of gun should you use to shoot jellyfish?

DSK

DSK wrote:


What kind of gun should you use to shoot jellyfish?


Stainless steel .410 Shotgun. A snake charmer is what I use.
http://www.verney-carron.us/pages_us/ultra-compact.htm
Just do not stand in the Jelly fish lee when your blast the *******!

Also fits nicely next to the bunk, with a nice spread at cabin door
distance incase of intruders, down side is it's a single shot and jelly
fish travel in pods.

Joe





DSK

"DSK" wrote
| What kind of gun should you use to shoot jellyfish?



I'd shoot it with a paint ball gun. Black paint so it would think a hungry squid was after it.
It would swim away....


Cheers,
Ellen