The sea waters are indeed the scariest part of the world. It may be a good sight to look at but then, you really have no idea with what's under you every time you swim. It sure is fun to swim at the beach and surf with the huge waves but when you realize that there are creatures from the smallest to the biggest? It would probably be a big NO to swim there!
Now, there's this 16-year-old boy named Sam Kahizay who had the most horrifying beach experience after he ended up in the hospital while enjoying a day at the beach.
After a tiring day of non-stop football practice, this man walked into the beach and dipped his feet into the water. But when he walked out of the beach, he noticed that his feet were already covered in sand, forcing him to return to the water to wash off the sand.
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However, after a few minutes, he went out of the water, feeling refreshed... until he noticed that there's already a non-stop bleeding into his feet.
“We live across the road from the beach,” his father, Jarrod Kanizay, told The Washington Post. “He hobbled home pretty quickly. He rang me, actually, from outside. … He said, ‘Dad, you better come down outside.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Just come down!’
“We were pretty amazed.”
It was then when they discovered thousands of tiny creatures into his feet up to his legs and the creatures are somehow attached to him as if they were already pinned! Aside from the fact that he had thousands of tiny creatures down there, his feet won't stop bleeding!
He was then brought to the hospital where he continued to bleed. The staff of the hospital tried to stop the bleeding but they still failed to do so,
The 'leg munchers' in Melbourne were described as the sea lice but when you take a closer look at the microscope, they look something different. Marine biologist Genefor Walker-Smith found out that the teen was the lunch f these crustaceans called amphipods!
Amphipods occur in any aquatic environment and they are serving a vital role in eating dead stuff!
“It’s possible [Sam] disturbed a feeding group, but they are generally not out there waiting to attack like piranhas,” she told the ABC. “The crustaceans would have swarmed off that piece of dead fish and onto his leg. He may have already had a cut, perhaps, and they were able to smell that wound or any chemicals that the wound was giving off.”
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Because of what had happened to him, the locals are now afraid to go swimming into the water but then, Sam is quite different because he stated that he would still take dips and has no plans on avoiding the water.
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