Found this little sucker, can kill 26 adults within mins

[ReaperSS]

Well guys, just be aware when out swimming/snorkling around reefs in Perth.
Never mind great whites and other sharks. This is what you need to fear. Enough venom to kill 26 adults in min. Venom 10,000 times more toxic than cynide.

I was standing in the basin at Rotto. The most popular swimming hole at rotto. This is where ALOT of kids swim and pretty much everyone.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6825737892_3699461910_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/6825737892/)
The Basin, Rottnest Island W.A (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/6825737892/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

I stayed the night on the island and was first to this location. Standing up to my hips deep i noticed this litte occy swim over to my legs to take shelter from the open area of the basin.
Wasnt till it was under me i noticed the blue rings. Got the hell away from it but then snorkled over, I had the go pro and got great vid. First image its not pissed, other pics it was flashing the blue rings saying GET AWAY!

If bitten you wound feel the bite as it has an anethetic, you go bling within 5 min then all your organs fail. You need CPR for 2-3 hours and though this whole time you are concious but paralised.

Be aware people, may have been my last day on the planet yesterday
Trust me to find it lol
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8503/8309388415_eb581af057_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8309388415/)
Found this little guy while snorkling. Blue ring Octopus (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8309388415/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8493/8309388507_75343a8207_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8309388507/)
Found this little guy while snorkling. Blue ring Octopus (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8309388507/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8224/8313015434_ac8d1d7b0e_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8313015434/)
Found this little guy while snorkling. Blue ring Octopus (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8313015434/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

[ReaperSS]

Info here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-ringed_octopus

[ho57ile]

Lucky you managed to see it mate, a lot of people don't realise how small they actually are/what they are untill its too late.

I remember when i was younger exploring the beach up at Dampier when the tide was out and there was one in a little pool next to me and i didn't even know untill my old man told me to move away because he recognised it.

/csb.

[MadDocker]

They look incredible with the blue flashing. Ive snorkled there heaps and have never seen one. You certainly seem to have a knack for finding strange things.

[ReaperSS]

The Video..
Click 720p...
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jjOidjKGIvY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[KPWISHN]

It's amazing there isn't more incidents with these little bad boys. I remember the first time I saw one. They are small. Golf ball size small. Pretty freaky.

Great photo's btw.

[schnoods]

A mate was once diving for prawns had a close encounter. While diving he decided to get a few kg of mussels. Went grabbed a few catch bags full and came up on to the boat, then sorting them out by hand he picked one up by accident, thng was resting in his palm before he realised wtf it was.

He shat hard, drop the thing and it flared up with the blue rings. It now rests in a small vegemite jar, preserved.

[Brockas]

Well... That's me done. Not going swimming in the ocean ever again.


You have some balls swimming up to it after spotting it the first time. I would have run out of the water and never gone back. The venom from those things is just ridiculous.

[luke20t]

wtf! didnt know you could find these in perth!

[ReaperSS]

Yep one of the most deadly things in the ocean. Not really ballsy , more stupid haha anything to get the shot

[ReaperSS]

wtf! didnt know you could find these in perth!

I had heard about them here but never seen one before. What freaks me out is the amount of kids there with little nets catching star fish etc. Really wanted to tel everyone to be carefull. I told a few familys and the life guards did there best

[ReaperSS]

We really need more warning signs around the place.
I also found 2 dugites over rotto aswell ...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8479/8196380824_3e3fb4eb0e_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8196380824/)
Venomous Dugite, Rottnest Island, Western Australia (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8196380824/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8345/8195276769_fe97db9ba7_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8195276769/)
Venomous Dugite, Rottnest Island, Western Australia (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8195276769/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

[fourseven]

This is why I have a pool.

[j3rk]

+1 to not knowing they were out at Rotto/this side of Aus.
They are everywhere over east but I've never heard of one over here.

[protecon]

We used to find these on the reefs at Cocos as kids - poking them seems to make them more colorful and exciting. Man were we stupid.

[Kickit]

Seen one in albany once. stopped me from going in the water for awhile haha

[skidkid]

Blue ring octopus are ok, stone fish scare me more - one of the most intense pains you can have, lasts 4-6hrs and kills
Often, but is treated by putting the limb in hot water (60+), where in the hot water it's ok, as soon as you take it out the pain comes back

One of my Uni lecs has been stung by them a few times, 2nd time he just poured boiling water on it as the pain from the burn was less than the sting

[Scaf]

Wow was swimming at the Basin a few days ago, I cut my foot on the reef and ran back to shore incase it attracted a shark haha

Also didn't know they were in WA, well not Rotto/Metro area anyway..

[Lonewolf]

Blue ring octopus are ok, stone fish scare me more - one of the most intense pains you can have, lasts 4-6hrs and kills
Often, but is treated by putting the limb in hot water (60+), where in the hot water it's ok, as soon as you take it out the pain comes back

One of my Uni lecs has been stung by them a few times, 2nd time he just poured boiling water on it as the pain from the burn was less than the sting

This, occie would tend to swim off and they have small mouth etc so chance of being bitten is pretty low.
Stonefish will sit there and wait for you to step on the bastard and kill you.

[ryanr32]

Seen a few of these up port hedland/karatha way but didnt know they would be down rotto/perth way didnt really know what they were until i saw the 'dont fuck with me' blue rings. Never swam there again.

[TJ]

Ban beaches

[RK 86 WA]

Friend that is a lifeguard at Cott Surf club has told me that there is a little reef either within or just north of the flagged swimming area that plays home to these things.

[Brockas]

tl;dr - everything in Australia wants to kill you.

[TJ]

More dangerous than trophy racing at Barbs

[Gleeso]

Saw one of these little bastards a few years back at Coogee Beach (my local beach). It was inside a glass coke bottle. Not sure what was done to it, but I never realised how fucking small they are. /CSB

The colours on the thing are pretty amazing, especially when it starts to go into the reef.

[ReaperSS]

Yeah love the blue's

This one was acually big compared to ones at aqua etc. This would of been close to 20cm streached out when swimming off

[Mr Scorpio]

Used to see them up north a fair bit, very pretty and VERY deadly.

[Niva]

Just another reason for me not to go into the ocean unless im wearing a car

[Brett_J]

Used to see them at Point Peron diving in the caves there all the time.
Pretty cool the amount of stuff you see if you stop and pay attention.

Everytime I've been to the Basin I've seen at least one dugite, most people just walk around them.

[Gleeso]

Yeah love the blue's

Would be trippy as fuck to watch this thing swimming around if you were tripping on acid...

You'd probably die from wanting to touch it. :p

[Adr3naL1N]

Blue ring octopus are ok, stone fish scare me more - one of the most intense pains you can have, lasts 4-6hrs and kills
Often, but is treated by putting the limb in hot water (60+), where in the hot water it's ok, as soon as you take it out the pain comes back

One of my Uni lecs has been stung by them a few times, 2nd time he just poured boiling water on it as the pain from the burn was less than the sting


sounds abit like a cobler fish. stepped on one when i was 14 in geraldton, they arent deadly though, just cause a shitload of pain, had to of bee nthe most pain ive been in. Got to hospital nurse just put my foot in hot water, pain iinstantly went away, water got cold unbearable pain came back, nurse had to keep bringing back more hot water every 10 minturs for about an hour til a doctor could come put a needle in my foot to numb the pain to the next two days. Thats all they do for ya til the posion wears off ya.

[skidkid]

Yeah same genus of fish so similar effects of the poison... Stone fish pain kills a few people each year though where cobbler luckily doesn't

[Dagon]

wtf! didnt know you could find these in perth!Blue-ringed octopus are all around Australia. There's a different species along the colder south-coast waters but it uses the same neurotoxin and has the blue rings.
They're also found all through se-asia, india and some of the north-west of africa, or so google tells me.

Seen one in Esperance while swimming on my own as a kid, knew what they were.
Dacks suitably crapped.

[luke20t]

Im off to rotto tomorro thihk it might pay off to bring my wetsuit while looking for crays now

[Macca]

Prefer these then Irukandji. Those fuckers used to annoy the shit out of us in Broome. Either cant swim or go fishing and the pingpingpingpings use to come up attached to the line

[Torquen]

Yeah box jelly's FTL also! So hard to see too. Also spotted a few of the Blue Rings when I was in the Coco's Islands, very pretty... From a distance!

[millzy_88]

Shit myself today, was walking through the shallow waters near Rockingham and sharp intense pain in my foot struck me all of a sudden.
Screamed pulling my foot out of the water to see what t was as was worried it was something poisonous. Turns out just a crab casually pincing my foot, little bastard was attacking my mate trying to get it off me as well lol

[JBAE]

Well... That's me done. Not going swimming in the ocean ever again.


You have some balls swimming up to it after spotting it the first time. I would have run out of the water and never gone back. The venom from those things is just ridiculous.

LOL POOF its not like its out to kill it or going to "attack" you unless you try to finger it or in your case eat it. poor little bastards used to get them all the time on the reefs of our old sheep station.

do recall a fair while back a dude got bitten by one whilst out fishing and being its some nasty little neurotoxin causing paralysis to shit like your diaphram nall the other good stuff what not (i think) his mate performed CPR on him for like 40mins or more essentially keeping him alive until help arrived and he survived it.

CSB

[ossie_21]

Never really got into studying sealife, to me that shits cray

I remember about 5 years ago being 30km off the coast of Broome fishing off my mates boat, feet dangling just in the water. Casually look down and see a fucking sea snake come out from under the boat just chilling, was about an inch away from touching my feet & glad I didn't find out what it's reaction would be.. Lucky for me I'd read up about them a few days earlier & found out unless u get treatment within about 10mins or so you're probably gonna cark it..

[skidkid]

Most sea snakes can't bite you though, unless your unlucky enough to get caught between the fingers/toes.. Then there's the fact they rarely ever bite, have had one coil around my reg whilst diving, they're fairly harmless

/csh

[Rich]

much disappointment. read the title and thought this was going to be another gun thread.

[BIGS]

Thanks for heads up, going rotto next week for the first time since I was a kid.

[Torquen]

Most sea snakes can't bite you though, unless your unlucky enough to get caught between the fingers/toes.. Then there's the fact they rarely ever bite, have had one coil around my reg whilst diving, they're fairly harmless

/csh

Spot on. See them at work in Hedland all the time, harmless for the most part.

[ossie_21]

Most sea snakes can't bite you though, unless your unlucky enough to get caught between the fingers/toes.. Then there's the fact they rarely ever bite, have had one coil around my reg whilst diving, they're fairly harmless

/csh

I know unless they are provoked pretty much they won't do much, didn't stop me from shitting bricks :p

[titmeat]

id love to throw that octopus in my neighbours face

[V70R]

Holy crap, I honestly never thought they were over here.
I remember seeing them as a kid while in the Noosa estuaries in Queensland and shitting myself when told what they were, but I would never had thought they would come over this way.
I was at Rotto like many others on Boxing day, frolicking around in the water swimming from boat to boat.

Fuck Blue ring octopus, fuck irukandji, fuck king brown snakes, fuck Australia.

[magic1]

Holy crap, I honestly never thought they were over here.
I remember seeing them as a kid while in the Noosa estuaries in Queensland and shitting myself when told what they were, but I would never had thought they would come over this way.
I was at Rotto like many others on Boxing day, frolicking around in the water swimming from boat to boat.

Fuck Blue ring octopus, fuck irukandji, fuck king brown snakes, fuck Australia.

leave

[DanWA]

Holy crap, I honestly never thought they were over here.
I remember seeing them as a kid while in the Noosa estuaries in Queensland and shitting myself when told what they were, but I would never had thought they would come over this way.
I was at Rotto like many others on Boxing day, frolicking around in the water swimming from boat to boat.

Fuck Blue ring octopus, fuck irukandji, fuck king brown snakes, fuck Australia.

They aren't very widespread but seem to love the basin, dont get the last line of your post though...

http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/kitchen/2008_07_17-ice.jpg

[ReaperSS]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8072/8320427394_4f25b9c21b_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8320427394/)
I made todays West Australian News paper. Page 29 :) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8320427394/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8217/8320426816_a27f7a5e3c_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8320426816/)
I made todays West Australian News paper. Page 29 :) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/29857839@N03/8320426816/) by Marc Russo (Australia) (http://www.flickr.com/people/29857839@N03/), on Flickr

[ClevoCapri]

Pic made todays paper with story.
Good work.

Beaten by 1min!

[protecon]

...

Nice work!

So you don't even have to be bitten - it's the mucus on the outside?
I know we've had an increase in shark attacks recently, but considering the amount of dangerous shit out there, it's surprising there aren't more fatalities annually from wildlife.

[winstor]

Pretty crazy the shit we have here, we are home to the 2 most venemous land snakes in the world too.

Good job on making the paper, photos are pretty awesome too.

Interesting quick read on the Blue Ring.

http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/bluering2.php

[chris260]

Well... That's me done. Not going swimming in the ocean ever again.


You have some balls swimming up to it after spotting it the first time. I would have run out of the water and never gone back. The venom from those things is just ridiculous.

DUDE, i still remember you hiding in your car because you were scared that a mosquito would bite you. If you saw one of these things I actually think I would witness the first self-propelled bare foot water skier powered by his own poo.

[ReaperSS]

Went snorkling at mettams pool. Pulling myself over some reef and has something suck my finger down into the reef. Shat so hard. Turns out it was a sea earchin of some form

[Risk10k]

DUDE, i still remember you hiding in your car because you were scared that a mosquito would bite you. If you saw one of these things I actually think I would witness the first self-propelled bare foot water skier powered by his own poo.

More of a poo-rocket, powered by good one bbq and kikkoman sauce.

[Brockas]

I'm not denying this.

[winstor]

Went snorkling at mettams pool. Pulling myself over some reef and has something suck my finger down into the reef. Shat so hard. Turns out it was a sea earchin of some form

Not tempted to stick ya cock in there?

[ReaperSS]

hahahahahaah gold!

[Dagon]

Went snorkling at mettams pool. Pulling myself over some reef and has something suck my finger down into the reef. Shat so hard. Turns out it was a sea earchin of some form
Not tempted to stick ya cock in there?I used to love sea anenomes (http://www.cccmkc.edu.hk/~kei-kph/Ecology/Rocky%20shore_image/Sea%20anemone%20in%20a%20rock%20pool_800.jpg) when I was kid as it ticked like hell to stick your toe in one. Wouldn't park your meat in there though, as most of them sting like jellyfish as that's how the catch their prey. They're pretty much just rock-anchored jellyfish.

[Dagon]

So you don't even have to be bitten - it's the mucus on the outside?http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/bluering2.php
^^ The neurotoxin is a product of bacteria produced in its saliva, but there's evidence that it can pass through its flesh and skin in small quantities.

[Jumanji]

http://www.ecosystem-guides.com/images/BlueBottle.jpg


Anyone been stung by a blue bottle or seen one before? I would have only been about 12 or 13 and found one on the beach at Trigg and not knowing what it was i picked it up and got stung about three times by it. Ive never to this day felt anything as painful as that and I have been pretty acident prone over the years.

And now I keep my white ass out of the water and stay in the pool instead.

[ReaperSS]

I had a funny experience with a blue bottle. Fishing at Hamelin bay. We were offshore in a boat and my mate yelled out to reel lines in as we were moving spots.
I was the last to reel my line in and as it came up it looked like i snagged someones blue line. As i untangled it ( around 2 meters) i wrapped it around my hand as a tight bundle. It was just about the consistancy of fishing line, maybe a little softer. After around the 10 wind around my hand i realised it was a blue bottle tentical. My hand was on fire and my glands swelled up. Even a little bit i flicked off got my mate and he was in pain. For some reason his groin was hurting ( glands) he was screaming. I wasnt that bad but each person must have different tollerance. Fuck forgive my grammer, cant be fuked going back though it fixing it lol