How to handle a blue-ringed octopus

[Streydog]

Here is what not to do.

 

[davecampbell]

" my initial reaction was to pick it up..." what an idiot. this is exactly what is wrong with most people out there...

 

[Manatee Diver]

" my initial reaction was to pick it up..." what an idiot. this is exactly what is wrong with most people out there...

Would last about 5 minutes in Australia.

 

[Pressurehead]

On a beach in Bali Indonesia .
Where I grew up in Australia you learn from a very early age not to touch these ,there are a lot of things here that can bite ,sting, eat and poison you, and that is not counting the ones in the ocean that can do the same.
I am now going for a walk 2 min from my home and take a close look in the rock pools, I may find one of these, Oh they are there, don't always see them, I have to be careful as I might stand on a Stone Fish.

 

[Centrals]

What you don't know you don't know!
Lucky to be alive.

Toxic crab!

Creature Feature – Toxic Crabs | Western Australian Museum

Zosimus aeneus - Wikipedia

 

[Dan]

One day at the end of our dive trip in Bali, I went to Pandawa Beach just for sightseeing. As I was walking on the rocky beach, checking out those fishermen harvesting seaweed, looking at patches of water pools for critters & small fish to snap a picture of, I saw something gliding over the pool bottom, it was a Blue-ringed Octopus. So. I pullout my iPhone and snapped its picture, as shown, below.

 

[Searcaigh]

How about blue-ring sex

 

[Russjstewart]

And the bite is reportedly almost painless. Blue-ringed octopus - Wikipedia

Back in the day when I was involved in a Life Saving Club it was not uncommon for people to wander in with a blue ring in a bucket. The first question was how did you get it in the bucket. If the person who handled it was there we would sit them down for half an hour or so. If the person wasn’t there we would send a patrol member out to find them, and then sit down with them for half an hour or so. We would also let them read the relevant chapter of a book a marine animal injuries, that we kept

 

[HKGuns]

On a beach in Bali Indonesia .
Where I grew up in Australia you learn from a very early age not to touch these ,there are a lot of things here that can bite ,sting, eat and poison you, and that is not counting the ones in the ocean that can do the same.
I am now going for a walk 2 min from my home and take a close look in the rock pools, I may find one of these, Oh they are there, don't always see them, I have to be careful as I might stand on a Stone Fish.

Ya'll have more messed up critters than anywhere else in the world. I bet it isn't the only thing you learn not to touch when young. I have no interest in visiting AUS, mainly because of all the deadly critters everywhere.

 

[Centrals]

Ya'll have more messed up critters than anywhere else in the world. I bet it isn't the only thing you learn not to touch when young. I have no interest in visiting AUS, mainly because of all the deadly critters everywhere.

Box jelly fish and Irukandji
Funnel web and Redback spider.

There are 20m people living in that continent.