Idiot and Blowfish

[SlvrDragon50]

Originally Posted by MSilvia

I saw the photo on Flickr, and left the guy a comment. He replied, suprised to find out after the fact that the cute little blue ringed octopus has enough venom in a single bite to kill his whole neighborhood. Dummy.

Lucky for him, it apparently wanted to be held.

o.O If I had to hold something, I would at least pick something dull and not florescent...I think its safe to say a lot of bright colored animals are poisonous or lethal in some way.

[USF_Diver]

Originally Posted by MSilvia

I saw the photo on Flickr, and left the guy a comment. He replied, suprised to find out after the fact that the cute little blue ringed octopus has enough venom in a single bite to kill his whole neighborhood. Dummy.

Lucky for him, it apparently wanted to be held.

What I found on a website, that dude is very lucky.
Thats why I don't touch anything, I don't know what is and isn't dangerous.

The blue rings are only visible when the Blue-ringed octopus is about to attack

[Sansho]

Originally Posted by MSilvia

Well then, let me kick it up a notch...

OMG .... kids don't try this at home!

[Ramgib]

I'd like to put my inflator hose up his arse and hold down the button. Blow fish meet Blowdiver

[LittleOtter]

Originally Posted by Sansho

OMG .... kids don't try this at home!

thats not fair if he had been bitten it would have been deserved, just go to show god protects the saved and ignorant

[Black-Gorrilla]

Originally Posted by Sansho

OMG .... kids don't try this at home!

more like... OMG... kids, don't try this EVER, ANYWHERE!!

[TheAlchemist]

How awesome is this guy? He is super cool. I want to be like him when I grow up and become fu*king stupid.... I mean, I just wish we had more of these type of divers around.....
(Hilarity Ensures)
Crazy Scuba Diver Has Accident - Video

TheAlchemist

[Splitlip]

Originally Posted by MSilvia

I saw the photo on Flickr, and left the guy a comment. He replied, suprised to find out after the fact that the cute little blue ringed octopus has enough venom in a single bite to kill his whole neighborhood. Dummy.

Lucky for him, it apparently wanted to be held.

Lucky is right. The blue rings don't show until they are agitated

[CompuDude]

The one thing I'll say on this is, times change and people learn things.

When I was certified in '87, one of the first things our instructor did on one of our dives was catch a porcupine fish, get it to inflate, and pass it around the class. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. (I was 16 at the time)

I'm ashamed to say I did this a couple of times myself, on my own, later in my diving. Before I learned better. I now know better, of course, and would stop anyone who tried to do something like that, but doesn't change the fact that things weren't always as they are now... and it was simple ignorance begging for education, not malice, that caused it.

I saw someone doing this just a few years ago in Jamaica. I had a quiet talk with the person in question after the fact, and he was horrified to hear that it could cause real harm to the animal, and swore to never do it again. Again, it's all about education, not blame and malice ... until proven otherwise, of course.

I wish someone had told me, quietly, in my earlier years.