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Two giant jellyfish captured off the Queensland coast would have been capable of killing 120 people, according to an expert. The lethal pair, each measuring 30cm in bell diameter, were discovered by lifeguards alive after washing ashore on Balgal Beach, 60km north of Townsville on Wednesday.
Source: RSOE
Gershwin said the stingers' sheer girth suggested that they had survived from last summer. "We do sometimes see that size this early in the season, but they're probably last season's animals," she said, adding each of the marine stingers had the potential to kill 60 people, based on the number and length of each tentacle.
Wrabbit2000
I don't often see "Biological" alerts on RSOE referring to actual critters of size. They usually mean bacteria or virus when they list an emergency or event as Biological in nature. Not this time...and WOW.... You wouldn't have wanted to run into these beasts in the water!
Two giant jellyfish captured off the Queensland coast would have been capable of killing 120 people, according to an expert. The lethal pair, each measuring 30cm in bell diameter, were discovered by lifeguards alive after washing ashore on Balgal Beach, 60km north of Townsville on Wednesday.
I guess every nation and region has it's natural threats. This is a particularly nasty one to my own thinking. I'd rather have a shark I can punch and see as a real tangible thing with eyes, a conventional body and a brain to think with than a mass of goo and tentacles able to sting me to death in moments.
Source: RSOE
Gershwin said the stingers' sheer girth suggested that they had survived from last summer. "We do sometimes see that size this early in the season, but they're probably last season's animals," she said, adding each of the marine stingers had the potential to kill 60 people, based on the number and length of each tentacle.
Have a good swim down under! (shivers)
500,000 cnidocytes, containing nematocysts, a harpoon-shaped microscopic mechanism that injects venom into the victim.
reply to post by AliceBleachWhite
Two people in Australia are believed to have died from Irukandji stings.
( By the way - there are other deadly thingies in those parts. But they are EPIC - bucket list stuff ! )
This neurotoxin, known as Tetrodotoxin, will paralyse a human within seconds, causing unconsciousness. There is no known antidote, and only by applying continuous CPR for 24 hours would the victim have any chance of survival.
hudsonhawk69
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
It sure is good to be a KIWI!!!