Sea urchin spine removal tool

[fookisan]

A useful tool with extracting sea urchin spines is blackhead removal tool. You center the hole of the tool around the urchin spin and push down and it brings the urchin spine up enough to extract with tweezers (if you are lucky) Used this tool recently after some urchins got me in the knee on a shallow snorkel in the USVI.

Dan

 

[suthnbelle]

A useful tool with extracting sea urchin spines is blackhead removal tool. You center the hole of the tool around the urchin spin and push down and it brings the urchin spine up enough to extract with tweezers (if you are lucky) Used this tool recently after some urchins got me in the knee on a shallow snorkel in the USVI.

Dan

I could have really used this tip six years ago when I lived in San Juan, PR! You couldn't go to the beach without fear of steping on a sea urchin in the water. I had plenty of those little black spines broken off in my foot, we usually just cut/picked them out. Thanks for the tip!

 

[rambler]

We were down in the VI a few months ago and the urchins were bad, they were everywhere. Our DM said to not pick them out but to leave them alone and pour vingar on them. ALso heard it from a few people that were limping around after stepping on them. I guess the vingar disolves the protien from the spine.

 

[drbill]

Actually, I prefer the old fashioned way... some of you may remember Sean Connery biting the urchin spine out of Ursula Andress' foot in one of the early Bond films. Funny thing is that I just demonstrated it this past weekend (Fourth of July) with my dive buddy Andrea.

 

[baltimoron]

I am very familiar with a blackhead popper (my mom used to chase me around with one when I was fifteen and pop all my blackheads), but I hope that I am never in a situation in which I have to use one like that!! Stepping on sea urchins sounds REALLY painful.

 

[Kim]

I am very familiar with a blackhead popper (my mom used to chase me around with one when I was fifteen and pop all my blackheads),

Gee....you're lucky! My Mum used to use her fingers! :11:

 

[PhotoTJ]

Actually, I prefer the old fashioned way... some of you may remember Sean Connery biting the urchin spine out of Ursula Andress' foot in one of the early Bond films. Funny thing is that I just demonstrated it this past weekend (Fourth of July) with my dive buddy Andrea.

Thunderball, Claudine Auger as Domino. "I've never tasted women before, they're rather good."

 

[drbill]

Thunderball, Claudine Auger as Domino. "I've never tasted women before, they're rather good."

Ouch, I stand corrected... must be my Old Timer's acting up again. Forgot the quote as well.

 

[fookisan]

I am very familiar with a blackhead popper (my mom used to chase me around with one when I was fifteen and pop all my blackheads), but I hope that I am never in a situation in which I have to use one like that!! Stepping on sea urchins sounds REALLY painful.

I seldom step on them as I wear booties if there is even a remote chance of stepping on one while snorkeling. I got some spines in my knee and usually get them in such extremities from bumping into them.

Dan