These days, the weather in Sydney is very hot, many Australian families choose to go to the sea for summer.
On Wednesday, yesterday, Julie Tattam, who lives in Cronulla, south of Sydney, took his 11-year-old daughter to Salmon Haul, not far from home.
As soon as she reached her destination, her daughter began to run to the beach, jumping on the beach, and Julie was just getting cold not far from the shore, watching her play with water.
After playing for about half an hour, her daughter ran to her mother excitedly and showed Julie a "battle product" she had just found, a very beautiful shell.
Ben thought it was just a shell, but after a strange smile, her daughter said, "Mom, look, there`s a good-looking octopus in it."
Just as her daughter showed to Julie, the octopus in it ran slowly out of the shell. Just as the octopus was about to climb into Julie`s daughter`s hand, Julie`s daughter instinctively threw the shell on the ground.
Julie squatted down to examine the octopus, which, unlike the other octopuses, was brightly and oddly shaped, with brown-colored ring stripes mixed with blue dots.
Back in the car with her daughter, Julie and Google took a look at the origin of the octopus to see if it was a poisonous creature.
This check does not matter, Julie suddenly startled in a cold sweat. It turned out to be just in the hands of her daughter, but not an ordinary creature. It`s called the Blue Ring octopus, one of the strongest toxicity creatures on earth. Toxicity is 50 times the size of a cobra. If a child is bitten, he will lose consciousness within a minute, soon suffer breathing difficulties, be paralyzed, and can lead to death in 20 minutes.
A small one can poison 26 people, so far there is no anti-virus serum can be cured.
Julie immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. The blue ring octopus thrown on the ground was a deadly threat to the people who played by the sea, especially children, because the little thing was so good-looking that the children must be unable to help their curiosity. Pick it up and check it out.
Julie and his daughter decided to warn the people around them, but when they returned to their place of origin, they found the blue ring octopus dead. Apparently, the people who have just passed by already know the great harm of the octopus.
To Julie`s hindsight, he knew nothing about the little blue octopus`s toxicity, and never alerted her daughter to the creature.
If the daughter is really bitten, the rescue is too late, because the beach to their car 15 minutes away, and to the hospital 15 minutes to 20 minutes, the consequences are really unthinkable, too terrible!
Back home, Julie decided to send the terrible experience to Facebook, reminding people at Cronulla, especially Salmon Haul, to watch out for the creature while swimming and walking by the sea!
Julie also solemnly warned his children that they should not touch any shells or marine life when they play by the sea.
Christmas fun, the daughter picked up a shell at the sea to her father, almost killed her father.
Not long ago, the 42-year-old Australian man, Aaron Pix, took his family on Christmas Eve to (Quindalup Beach)., Queensway Beach, southwest coast of Australia.
While playing by the sea, his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie Pix, found a very good-looking conical shell, and Sophie couldn`t help but love it.
So he ran and asked his father if he could take him home. Aaron, seeing how much his daughter liked it, agreed, and put the shells in his clothes pocket.
When they got home, Aaron took the shells out for cleaning when a blue-ring octopus fell out of his pocket, and the blue-ring octopus`s foot had touched Aaron`s thigh for at least 15 minutes.
"I was terrified because we immediately google and discovered that the octopus could take my life in a few minutes."
Aaron immediately called for an ambulance to go to the hospital, where he was urgently treated and observed for three hours before paramedics confirmed that the octopus only touched his thigh, but did not release the venom.
Aaron felt so lucky that he almost died in front of his child on Christmas Eve. Fortunately, it wasn`t a young child who met the octopus, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
As we all know, Australia is a magical and "terrible" country, whether going out to play or stay at home, will occasionally give you some "small surprise" and shock.
Here, parents are reminded to accumulate more knowledge of Australia`s toxic species, to recognize the dangers lurking around us, and to warn their children, whether in the interior or the seaside, of the dangers that lie around us. Don`t touch strange and strange species at will!
