Bermuda is currently under attack by the Portugese

[lasersailor184]

Really?

Hurts huh?  I'll bet she hollered.

I like the way the article glances over the second best alternative for treating the stings.  Best option is meat tenderizer or some sort of *basic* solution...watered down clorox would be good too.  If none of that is available...have someone pee on you. 

Not joking.

If you get those tentacles wrapped around you and the pain is flowing freely I promise you that ALL of you would be begging for someone to pee on you if you knew it would decrease the pain almost instantly.

Sort of a misconception.  You only use meat tenderizer / urine IF (and only if) you still have a tentacle on you.  Otherwise, the best cure is to take a handful of wet sand and just go to town on the sting. 

[Curval]

Sort of a misconception.  You only use meat tenderizer / urine IF (and only if) you still have a tentacle on you.  Otherwise, the best cure is to take a handful of wet sand and just go to town on the sting. 

If you get those tentacles wrapped around you and the pain is flowing freely I promise you that ALL of you would be begging for someone to pee on you if you knew it would decrease the pain almost instantly.

[Gunthr]

I saw some little boys playfully popping the pretty blue balloons washed up in the weed on the beach by stomping them with their bare feet.  I gave them a short lecture in marine biology before they encountered any tentacles.  I don't think they really appreciated me interfering    pain is a better teacher.
 
I don't know what the man o war tenticles feel like when they are intact...  I think I've encountered bits and pieces of them tho.  I did have a bad encounter with those pink moon jellyfish that come through the FL Keys  in huge numbers in the fall.  It is a bananza for the sea turtles who eat those things like candy. I got stung all over - face, arms, legs, torso,  by the moon jellys before I could clamber back into my boat.  Obviously, they aren't as bad as man o wars.

[storch]

I suppose my jellyfish fight stories would somehow be interpretted as trolling on this highly sensitive board so I'll keep them to myself.

[ROX]

Dude, I lived through Hurricane Fran.....


I was in Raleigh, NC.


I TOTALLY sucked like a Hoover the size of Jupiter.


No power for 10 days...barely had a house....trees down everywhere.


Be safe, bro...we care about you & your family.




ROX

[lasersailor184]

I saw some little boys playfully popping the pretty blue balloons washed up in the weed on the beach by stomping them with their bare feet.  I gave them a short lecture in marine biology before they encountered any tentacles.  I don't think they really appreciated me interfering    pain is a better teacher.
 
I don't know what the man o war tenticles feel like when they are intact...  I think I've encountered bits and pieces of them tho.  I did have a bad encounter with those pink moon jellyfish that come through the FL Keys  in huge numbers in the fall.  It is a bananza for the sea turtles who eat those things like candy. I got stung all over - face, arms, legs, torso,  by the moon jellys before I could clamber back into my boat.  Obviously, they aren't as bad as man o wars.

Jellyfish can't sting you on the bottom of your feet, and the palms of your hands.

[Curval]

Dude, I lived through Hurricane Fran.....


I was in Raleigh, NC.


I TOTALLY sucked like a Hoover the size of Jupiter.


No power for 10 days...barely had a house....trees down everywhere.


Be safe, bro...we care about you & your family.




ROX

Thanks Rox, it's appreciated.

If you feel like some reading about hurricanes on this board give this a read, from when hurricane Fabian hit us head on in 2003:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,95331.0.html

A blast from the past. 

Bertha appears to be turning east and away from us.  My biggest concern is that it might interfere with a golf game I have planned for Saturday with some business associates.  Either way, not to worry...I'll be fine.

[Ripsnort]

Thanks Rox, it's appreciated.

If you feel like some reading about hurricanes on this board give this a read, from when hurricane Fabian hit us head on in 2003:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,95331.0.html

A blast from the past. 

Bertha appears to be turning east and away from us.  My biggest concern is that it might interfere with a golf game I have planned for Saturday with some business associates.  Either way, not to worry...I'll be fine.

Time to put up the flag, Curval!

[Curval]

HAAAARRRRR!