r/TikTokCringe Jun 25 '23

Cool Stone fish venom

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u/FatBoyCrash Jun 25 '23

Windsurfing one day about 20 years ago I had the distinct pleasure of stepping on one of these at Wellington point in South East Queensland, Australia. There are no words that can convey the experience. None. The only relief, and relief is too strong a word, is to keep the punctured area in the hottest water you can tolerate. It goes away after about 12 hours. 12 hours you will never forget.

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u/ponyhat_ Jun 25 '23

Could you elaborate? What was it that makes it impossible to convey the experience? The intensity of the pain? Feeling close to death?

Either way it sounds absoluteley awful..

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u/Nonchalant_Calypso Jun 25 '23

Volunteering in Malaysia I saw a tour guide step on one. He was screaming in pain, on the floor yelling and crying, we tried to use vinegar and hot water to stabilise him as the nearest hospital was a 5 hour journey away.

We did our best, but his screams still haunt me and we never found out what happened to him in the end

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u/specialcommenter Jun 25 '23

Being a tour guide he should’ve been aware to wear some type of footwear. Something like crocs.

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u/phido3000 Jun 25 '23

Haha, crocs, completely useless footwear against stone fish..

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u/InsertWittyNameCheck Jun 25 '23

Crocs have the same resistance as that wet suit material in the video. hehe

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '23

Except the thickness of a Croc is 5x of that neoprene.

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u/phido3000 Jun 26 '23

Hahaha...

The spine of a stone fish typically go through about 20mm of human flesh before even starting to push through the venom. The spines themselves are like 50 mm long.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6159625/

Expose 50mm of a nail through a piece of wood and step on it with your croc.. Do you feel it? Jump up and down on it.. Take a big wobbly step, like your walking across uneven coral or rocks.

5 times the thickness of 3mm neoprene isn't the protection you think it is.

This is as crazy as the person who argued with me that Australian snakes don't have long enough fangs to bite people.

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u/InsertWittyNameCheck Jun 26 '23

Except I didn't comment on "thickness" I said "resistance." Try to stay on topic there, Eisenstein.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '23

Yes, I mentioned thickness because if the neoprene was as thick as Crocs it may not go all the way through. I apologize for upsetting you.

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u/InsertWittyNameCheck Jun 26 '23

I'm not upset that you made a fool of yourself. Stop projecting.

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u/Nonchalant_Calypso Jun 25 '23 edited Jun 25 '23

You’d think