(day two) - your opinion on the new design needed

[Keith Antoine]

On Thursday 04 April 2002 07:17 am, burns wrote:

> > No way, I do not want to end up in hospital like a countryman of yours
> > from a stinger. He is critical and on life support in Townsville hospital
> > after swimming up north and getting hit by one of the stingers. He swam
> > outside the netted area, another died last week after doing the same.
>
> What is a stinger? Did he step on a stingray? Or are we talking about
> jellyfish (man-o-war)?

Its of the so called 'jelly fish' family and can be deadly. To be honest they 
are grouped locally as stingers and can come down as far as Brisbane with 
northerly winds. They are practically invisible very small in size have 
tenticles up to 20ft long. Up north as you can see from one of my photos all 
beaches carry warnings, that swimming in summer is hazardous outside netted 
areas. You can swim with a nylon body suit on and winter is fine too.

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage