A day on the ocean
 

so we're out in a powerboat today.... havin' some brews, pulling a tube and a kneeboard.... havin' a good time....

then we watched another boat burn down.

then we rescued a guy with a flipped Hobie Cat.

so we're back to tubin'.... the rope breaks.

we're trying to fix the rope and now it's caught in the prop.

we get the rope unsnaggled.... and one of the girls gets wrapped ina giant Portugese Man O War.... it's all in her hair, around her neck, all the way down to her feet... she's screaming. The rest of us got nailed by the thing trying to pull it off her. I was already in the water, so I escaped most of it, but got tagged on the face.

Man that shit burns!


time for a beer I think.

Sounds fun Amp. Please let me know next time you go out on a boat so I can join the festivities!

http://www.petinfo4u.com/images/man-o-war.jpg
Man-O-War

well, all in all it wasn't too bad... could've been worse I suppose.

What's the girl look like after being attacked?

she's got welts all over.... especially her neck and arms... lotsa redness and swelling. She's in a hurt bag. But she's on her way to the grill to get some fish and brew, so in an hour she probly won't care anymore.

pretty tough girl.... she refused to cry even though it hurt like hell. She's a diver, she can take it. Ain't the first time and won't be the last. :)

Right. Ok then. Not the first time, won't be the last time. Uh huh.



Sharks, pedes, 8 foot spiders and now evil demon jellyfish. I don't think I will be in Hawaii anytime soon. :Oh crap

ahh i remember when i walked up to the beach near my neighborhood and saw 50 of them on the beach.. i wondered what the hell they were, i was like 8

Luckily, I had given her a wet jacket to wear right before she went in (cuz the girls lose their tops on the tube when they wipeout), otherwise she'd be totally fucked..... her back and everything would've gotten hit.

I was surfing up in Santa Cruz and while paddling my hand went right into the middle of jellyfish. My hand was burning for 2 days straight. It's a burning sensation that can't be described....but it fucking burns.

meat tendarizer works well

so does just pouring fresh water, it deactivates the stinging cells

What's that part of Maui that reeks of raw sewage, and the surrounding water is unhabitable?

The sewer system? :winkwink:

Amps' toilet

sounds like a fun day :thumbsup

Pee and BBQ sauce works great on that kinda sting

http://www.cyberzine.com/surf/p1010052.jpg

that stuff is a myth.... washing with freshwater is actually the recommended treatment. Of course, that's not easy when you're out in a boat with nothing but saltwater and beer. :winkwink:

Near the Harbor?
Harbor Lights.

I heard you gotta rub human shit on it. Diarea would spread easier I bet, plus you wouldn't need as much because it's thinner. Just don't get that shit near your mouth.

i hate jellyfish.

ugly motherfuckers.

Fuck thats one freaky ass jellyfish.

Man-O-War are different from jellyfish.... jellyfish are able to propel themselves, whereas a Man-O-War cannot.... they're at the mercy of the currents, and basically just drift.

and the fuckers are painful.

i had no idea... interesting stuff.

can't their sting paralyze or something like that?

here is everything you ever wanted to know about the portugese man-o-war :)

yeah she's paralyzed, but then luckily she snapped out of it, just in time to go out drinking.

check the page title.

i thought it said A Dangerous Ocean Orgasm of Hawaii

"The man-of-war's body consists of a gas-filled (mostly nitrogen), bladder-like float (a polyp, the pneumatophore) - a translucent structure tinted pink, blue, or violet - which may be 3 to 12 inches (9 to 30 centimeters) long and may extend as much as 6 inches (15 centimeters) above the water."

Fucked up. Can you poke em and pop em?

It's funnier if you poke them with your dick. LOL They hate that.

I'm sure a lot of things get pissed off when you poke em with your dick.

eh, shit happens.... it's the ocean, not the local swimming pool. There's nothing "safe" about the ocean. You take your chances when you step into the wet. :)

the guy whos boat burned down in the middle of the afternoon had an ultimately MUCH worse day than we did.... lol

It is my sincere belief that this Man-O-War, as you call it, was placed in the water by a ruthless terrorist organisation so that it would attack, and possibly kill, innocent American civilians.

Or it could have also been those dirty communists.

:glugglug

I fucking hate the ocean. Hate it with a vengence.
Every time we go on holiday my buddy makes me go to the beach which I also hate and then eventually they all grab me and throw me in the water.

One year I went out on a paddle boat with my friend and our girlfriends. He bet me £20 I wouldn't jump in the water )we were pretty far out on the boat) and I said ok then I'll do it. I didn't do it for the money, just to shut the fucker up.

As I dived into the water, I came back up and the fucker was laughing and peddling away from me to leave me there. I swam after him - caught him - got on the boat and then threw him out!!

Fucker won't do that to me again! But yeah I am terrified of the ocean! Fuck knows what lingering below you waiting to eat some donner!!!

It would have been a real travesty if you'd poured prescious beer onto the wound.. Noooooooooo! never waste the beer!

Steve

You should all have pissed on her.
Seriously.
Stops the burning immediately.

LOL, after reading all the other replies, I guess it might sound like I'm talking shit. It's really true. The poison in those stings is alkaline, and it gets neutralised by the acid in your urine.

need :helpme ?

http://www.aloha.com/~lifeguards/jelyfish.html

or this..

http://www.aloha.com/~lifeguards/portugue.html

dont want to give you the wrong information..:1orglaugh

That's why I never go into the ocean.... Happy in my pool....

Sorry to hear that Amp... hope everyone is ok.

uh.......Nevermind. :glugglug

I am a dumbass..my computer is lagging like Mfucker..thats why.

good enough?

:glugglug

Ok well then pee is a good answer since it is basically sterile freshwater :) I got one of those wrapped around me near chinamans hat in oahu when I was 14 and it definately stings like a mother fucker

What a nasty little critter :(

Not the worst in that family though, the is a small one "neerly extinct" "cant remember the name", but it uses a nerve toxin that attacks your brain and causes almost seartain death in minuttes.
The fucker is only about 2 inches long and almost invible (very thin skinned, just a bit green), but luckely only lives in 2 bays in the world....

I think vinigar is supposed to take away some of the swelling away from a jelly fish sting

not with a man-o-war though as its not considered a jelly fish and will just worsen the sting "just read that" :glugglug