Scuba Jerm
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Here is my incident:
I was prepping for a boat dive in Fiji, putting on my shorty wetsuit, got all the gear on and got into the water. This dive site had a decent rope which was anchored to the top of a reef that was 30 feet below the surface. I proceeded to make my decent, and I felt an irritating itch develop on my right forearm. I started scratching it, wondering what would've caused the intense itching, but it soon went away, leaving a lined redmark with a couple dots through it.
Finished that dive, and continued on to another one. I guess that was my mistake. I should've made someone aware of what happened during the first dive. Anyway, the rest of the day i felt really exhausted, just overly tired to the point that eating wasn't of interest, just wanted to sleep. I awoke the next morning feeling like I had drank the worlds entire supply of beer! (I'm not a drinker so I don't know what a hang over is like, but it had to be something like this)
Long story short, I was given some anti biotics, that didn't help. I discovered upon my return to the US the sting made by the Porteguese man-o-war put my body into a muscle peralysis, causing my heart rate to sky rocket, and with some cases, the heart can rupture and your done for.
The lesson I learned... no matter how tropical the water is, i'm going to cover up to ensure no nasty critters get to me.
I was prepping for a boat dive in Fiji, putting on my shorty wetsuit, got all the gear on and got into the water. This dive site had a decent rope which was anchored to the top of a reef that was 30 feet below the surface. I proceeded to make my decent, and I felt an irritating itch develop on my right forearm. I started scratching it, wondering what would've caused the intense itching, but it soon went away, leaving a lined redmark with a couple dots through it.
Finished that dive, and continued on to another one. I guess that was my mistake. I should've made someone aware of what happened during the first dive. Anyway, the rest of the day i felt really exhausted, just overly tired to the point that eating wasn't of interest, just wanted to sleep. I awoke the next morning feeling like I had drank the worlds entire supply of beer! (I'm not a drinker so I don't know what a hang over is like, but it had to be something like this)
Long story short, I was given some anti biotics, that didn't help. I discovered upon my return to the US the sting made by the Porteguese man-o-war put my body into a muscle peralysis, causing my heart rate to sky rocket, and with some cases, the heart can rupture and your done for.
The lesson I learned... no matter how tropical the water is, i'm going to cover up to ensure no nasty critters get to me.
