Posted on 11/08/2019 9:55:44 AM PST by lowbridge
What it’s like to be stung by a stonefish
The mayor let them perform a half-assed autopsy on a fish
I guess the poor bastard never saw “Jaws”.
“...and he was identified by the wedding ring still on a finger...”
The lengths that some men will go in order to escape their wife.
“The lengths that some men will go in order to escape their wife.”
As for theories, he killed a man, chopped off the mans hand, put his ring on the dead man’s finger, fed him to a shark and then escaped his wife.
Probably a box jellyfish. I believe the big ones can be fatal it you contact around a meter’s worth of tentacles.
OTOH, Australia has them as well, and its small cousin, with a thimble-sized head, and maybe 4” tentacles, as little as an inch or less of contact can be fatal, and even being barely hit can give 1-2 days of waves of full body pain.
Bad Sharkey!
“The hand of a Scottish tourist... in the stomach of a tiger shark”
Scotsman trying to invent a new type of haggis?
Yeh! Like tooth care!
Wonder if this guy has ever been back in the ocean again!!! OCEAN nice to look at but you would honestly have to kill me and drag my cold dead body into the ocean BECAUSE that is the ONLY WAY I would ever go into the ocean again!!! I mean women give birth for goodness sakes and turn around and do it again, THIS I will NEVER FORGET and the infection lasted forever, OMG just thinking about it now is making me nauseous!!!
PING!!!
Yours, TMN78247
https://heleandlime.com/shark-crisis-on-reunion-island-from-the-eye-of-a-local
First and foremost, I have to point out that the sharks present on Reunion are bull sharks and tiger sharks which are along with the great white sharks the most dangerous species for humans.
I don’t want to feel your pain!
ALL that I will say about that is that you wouldn’t find me even WADE FISHING, much less surfing/swimming, there.
(I do my swimming in SWIMMING POOLS these days, as I well KNOW what’s “out there”.)
The last “collection”/tagging trip that we took, we got SIX large Tigers, 4 BIG (over 8 foot) Bulls & several Hammers, to 11 feet long, off the long-line.
(Two of the Bulls were taken in about “waist deep” water & the BIG Tiger that attacked the 2 swimmers, who were offshore of our beach-house on Oak Island, NC were hit in “chest deep” water & <40M off the beach.)
Yours, TMN78247
On Reunion they banned shark fishing and as an Islander says:
Another theory is that the creation of the protected marine nature reserve along the west coast in 2007 is seen as a shark “garde-manger” – a food storage. In this area, certain water activities such as fishing, bathing, use of watercraft etc. can be regulated or prohibited as soon as they harm the ecosystem or its equilibrium. This marine park expands 40 km of coastline from “Cap la Houssaye” (Saint-Paul) to the “Roche aux oiseaux” (Étang-Salé) i.e. exactly where the beaches are located and where the majority of the attacks occurred. In conclusion, it’s pretty obvious and simple that Reunion Island has the perfect conditions for the booming development of sharks. - Tom
Tom,
As I said on another thread, it may well be time to allow licensed hunting for the currently protected species of dangerous sharks & for the marine mammals that they eat. = Licensed hunting for predators (like gators & crocodiles) has returned several species to a reasonable level.
Yours, TMN78247
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