South Beach local finds deadly blue ring octopus lurking inside her bathers
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A Swimmer Makes A Horrifying Discovery In Her TUBES After A Dip In The Sea, And She Still Had Them On
- A woman has dodged death after finding a blue-ringed octopus in her bathers
- Lisa Bryant came across the creature after swimming off South Beach in Perth
- Without biting, Ms. Bryant caught it in a coffee cup and released it away from the swimmers.
- The blue-ringed octopus has venom strong enough to kill more than 20 humans.
A bather survived a deadly encounter with a deadly blue-ringed octopus after finding one lodged inside her bathers after swimming.
Lisa Bryant had been swimming off South Beach in South Fremantle, southwest of Perth, when she made the shocking discovery on Thursday.
A 7cm blue-ringed octopus was emerging from a shell that she had placed under her bathers for safekeeping moments before.
The quick-thinking local trapped the creature in a coffee cup and relocated it away from other swimmers, but not before taking a photo of it.
A blue-ringed octopus bite has strong enough venom to kill more than 20 humans despite the fact that the sea creature is small, usually around 8cm long.
Thankfully, Lisa Bryant was not bitten by a blue-ringed octopus (pictured), which was found in her swimmers emerging from a shell she had found on South Beach in south-west Perth.
Ms. Bryant frequently collects shells and puts them under her swimmers, claiming that she always shakes them to make sure nothing is inside them.
She didn’t see the octopus until about 20 minutes later, when she began to feel the shell irritating her.
“If you’re swimming in South Beach, don’t be tempted to remember shells from the seabed,” Ms. Bryant wrote in a Facebook post.
‘[I] I retrieved said shell and a blue-ringed octopus came out: my lucky day.
According to the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, a bite is painless and the marks can often be hard to find.
“I took a quick look to see if there were any marks and it had a little scratch on it,” Ms Bryant told Perth Now.
“I started freaking out and everyone on the beach was freaking out and telling me to go to the hospital.”
The blue-ringed octopus contains venom strong enough to kill more than 20 people in a matter of minutes, even though the creatures are only 8cm long (blue-ringed octopus pictured)
The poison, called tetrodotoxin, induces paralysis, slowing the body down to a point where it won’t be able to breathe and won’t get enough oxygen.
There is no antidote for tetrodotoxin, and bite victims can only survive the toxin on a ventilator until its effects wear off.
While serious danger exists, there have only been a handful of confirmed victims of a blue ring bite, as the creatures are more likely to hide in small crevices rather than attack.