Have you Ever...
 

I have to take a survey on ocean annoyances for a summer project, and you guys can help me... do it.:D

Have you ever been, and ALSO, explain the result, what your reactions were, explain everything...

Have you ever been ...

Stung by a Jellyfish>

Stung by a Stingray>

Pinched by a crab>
^what kind if you know^

Bit by a shark/what kind?>

^same questiong with... Barracuda, anemone, urchin, eel, octopus, and any other creature that I didn't mention.

Thanks.

i gotta say i've never been bitten by any ocean creatures

I was pinched by a crab once on my hand. It tore through the skin, bleed, hurt like hell and was swollen for the better part of the few hours that followed.

do you know what kind of crab?

I've been pinched by a fiddler crab, but it's because they're so cute I can't help but annoy them.

ok, where?

On the finger
On the beach
St. Augustine Florida
Luckily, I never sat on one.:)

I got stung by bluebottle jellyfish once. On the legs. Stung like a fucker. :mad:

Hey hey hey now, I got portuguese man o war stung this week in Destin.

You know Posh that the POMOW can kill you if you get into a big batch o' those fuckers. You're a lucky man. I'm assuming that it hurt like a mother-fuck.

As to your questions- No, and for that, I humbly thank The Morrighan for Her mercy, especially concerning the jelly fish, as I hear that jelly fish stings are extremely painful.

Bluebottle, small jellyfish, medium sized crab (dunno what kind...they all look the same at the beaches here, they only get different further into the oceans and rivers here) I've stepped on an urchin, it was spiky but it didn't sting.
I've swam among stingrays and sharks, I mean...not great whites or anything, but generally the smaller variety will not attack you unless you fuck with them.

My reaction to all stings/bites in this case was, knowing that I wasn't likely to be dying (you learn how to evaluate potential threat here) was more or less the under the breath "ffffffffuck", and to get out of the water and do what I could to fix it, I think I swung my hand and threw the crab in the water, as a child, I think the bluebottle was the one that made me cry...it was stuck between my arm and ribs...Although my understanding is if you're allergic to those, you wanna get outta the water and get help fast, apparently you can go into (?sp?) anaphylactic shock and your airways become obstructed.

That's all I can tell you.

Thanks cheeb, and yes, you can go into ana..* shock from them sometimes. Luckily my P-MOW sting was on my knee area of my leg, so it wasn't serious, but i screamed for a good 5 minutes, haha.

Question- Does the incident have to have taken place on the beach or in water?

If so...mine did not.

I dont' know if this counts but when I was younger me and some friends went down to river and was swimming and I got pinched on the big toe by a crawdad.Stung a little but other than that it didn't hurt. Hope that helps a little.

you should have pulled that motherfucker out of the water and boiled his ass alive.

I have been bitten by lots of stuff. I've been bitten by jellyfish all over my body. I'm not allergic, so it was only just a big annoyance.

I've been bitten by blue crabs a lot, mainly because I was attempting to pull them out of the water and eat them. it hurts a little, and can easily break the skin, but it's nothing too serious, although shellfish make me nervous with their weird unheard-of diseases and viruses and whatnot.

Austin, it doesn't matter, the crawdad story was included in my report so, shoot.

And knife fight.... Jellies don't bite, hahaha

I was stung by their nematocysts. smartass.

j/k

hahahaha, nice.

I don't remember what kind it was, but the parental units might. I'll try to find out for ya soon as I can.

I was stung by a jellyfish a few years back...it stung me on the ankle...it felt more like I was stabbed and then set on fire, but maybe it was just me.

I have never been bit by a shark, but in the summer of 1987 I saw a boy get bit in half Jaws style on the Oregon Coast in about 4 feet of water.

Yeah, one of my exes went up to Oregon and was camping, with a lot of beer. It got dark, him and his friends got drunk, and they hit the beach at about midnight to go swimming. The next day, they happened to notice signs all over the beach saying "NO SWIMMING GREAT WHITE AREA". Either they were lucky, or Great Whites don't like the smell of drunk dumbass.

Bout the closes I've ever came was I was nipped by a small turtle. My cousing was bit by a snake. It wasn't a moccasin, but I destinctly remember them bringing out the snake-bite kit. Cleared the water pretty fast. I was like 8, crying because I thought he was going to die. It was a pretty horrible experience.

No, but I was bitten by a dog named 'Crab' once.http://img63.exs.cx/img63/6841/smiley_abused.gif

I was bit by a little mouse once.

When I was a bit younger I remember
being on my battleship and a Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side. Happended just after midnight. We was coming back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin' by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in that old calendar over there like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark he go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be living... 'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... oh then you hear that terrible high-pitched screaming. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' all those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On thursday morning, the third day Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water in his lifejacket, he was like a kinda top. Upended him into a nearby raft... well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waiting for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men came out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.


ok....I made that up...it just came to me.....not a quote or anything.....the truth is....my little buddy Jiminy and myself where in the ocean....just minding our own business....when this HUGH FUCKING WHALE swallowed us whole.True story........here is a pic if ya don't believe me....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../pinocchio.jpg

That's quoted from Jaws!

Ahh Robert Shaw.