Yes, yes they are kidding you. Fake news, it didn’t happen, sorry.
Good to know. In the U.S., with the exception of some members of Congress, our sharks stay in the ocean. However, we do have a few of these wandering around outdoors and they can get a little cranky:
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Red backs aren’t that bad….killer headache for about 6 hours with a wicked dose of nauseous undertones. Got bitten on the upper arm many years ago.
Not a pain I would forget but 24 hours later was all good.
Portuguese man of war……Meh…. They are what we call Blue bottles and throw at each other as kids…
Are blue bottle jellyfish poisonous?
The bluebottle uses its tentacles to catch, sting, and kill its prey. The venom it uses is a mix of phenols and proteins that are deadly to their prey, but not to humans. Immediately after you get stung by a bluebottle, you will feel an intense jolt of pain.
Put your big boy pants on for BOX Jellyfish
https://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(19)30099-7/pdf
And these little buggers are just as bad as the Box jellies...and you can barely see them in the water.
Irukandji jellyfish - Wikipedia
Robert Drewe describes the sting as "100 times as potent as that of a cobra and 1,000 times stronger than a tarantula's"
😲 Remind me not to swim in the ocean should I ever visit Australia...