Dangers: JellyfishMedusa - the real sea terrorists. Every year, manage to spoil the bathing season 160 million people, is not spared neither women nor children nor the elderly. The most innocent of them - "Russians" and "Ukrainians" - sting is no stronger than a nettle and allocated their mucus is harmful only if it enters the eye. But farther south, the more dangerous jellyfish. In the coastal waters of the Canary Islands unwary bathers awaits pirate - Portuguese ship - a very beautiful jellyfish with a red crest and multi-colored bubble-sail. Set jellyfish live in the coastal waters of Thailand. But the real "bin Laden" - the Australian sea wasp. She kills with a light touch multimeter tentacles, which, incidentally, can wander in and of themselves, without losing murderous qualities. Pay for familiarity with the sea wasp, at best, severe burns and lacerations, at worst - a life.
How to be: Touching the tentacles of jellyfish cause a burn, in appearance like a nettle. The lightest of them run for several days, and "kiss" tropical jellyfish spoil your appearance for 5-6 weeks. Affected area to lubricate the food and vinegar to remove adherent tentacles. Later the affected area to lubricate sintomitsinovoy emulsion. In severe cases will need an injection of pain medication.Prevention: Avoid drifting cutter is almost impossible. But it is known that the bank they nailed after a storm and during the rainy season in Asian countries. Avoid accidental contact to help special antimeduzny Israeli lotion SafeSea, acting as a repellent against mosquitoes.
Hazards: Sea urchinsIn fact, they are white and fluffy. But Mother Nature has thrust these phlegmatic a tight rein. Of resentment hedgehogs burrow into the sand or rocks, hide in the coral reefs of warm seas. Urchin is full of and on the Aegean coast of Turkey and Croatia, and Egypt. And although the needles of most of them do not contain the poison can still give a lot of trouble if vopyutsya into the body. And if you are worried someone from venomous echinoderms, such as hedgehog, nicknamed diadem - the problems will be even more: the complaints of pain, temporary paralysis and a long unpleasant treatment.
How to be: To support will be long and nasty. If the needle stuck in his leg, it is necessary to hold the injured site in hot water for half an hour, to try to remove the needle as a whole, not broken off the tip. Regularly treat the wound with antiseptics and closely monitor them started festering.
Prevention: Close proximity to coral reefs to wear special shoes. In the coastal strip to look at his feet.
Hazards: Pisces Girls, ie fish, are different - yellow, white, red. Especially a lot of beautiful women in the Red Sea. But 70% of luxury tropical fish exude a poison in all possible body parts, in that they are very similar with the girls. Venomous spines on the gills are reddish-purple beauties - zebra fish (striped lionfish), there are thorns and poisonous to the body and an ugly fish-stone (borodavchatki). This deadly counterpart. A ramp-hvostokol (sea cat), though not particularly toxic, but is always ready to strike studded tail - laceration stuck with needles and slightly poisoned provided. The difficulty is that often buries itself in sand slope and it's easy to take for an ordinary pebble. For their tropical counterparts, even our stretch: for example, scorpion fish, living in the Black Sea, and her "brother" - a sea dragon.
How to be: Doctor! Urgent! Specific treatment, such as a "sting" fish-stone man had not yet invented. So that we can only hope to get lucky and find someone nice who is waiting for the doctor make you artificial respiration. Not be saved, so at least natseluetes before his death.
Prevention: Do not touch him, for God's sake, sea creatures, do not yet understand? And children are not allowed.
