sea snakes

[Big_unit]

Used to get a lot of them in the nets when shallow water trawling, had to grab them by the tail and fling em off the sorting tray back into the sea. And my point is, if one crawled into my boat I'd belt the crap out of it and tell no-one.

Yeah its responses like this one that give Greenies & Animal Liberation groups the ammo they need.

Not a real smart response, is it ?

Why would you bother to write it on a public forum, you wrote that you would tell no one but in fact you have told everyone.

[spinna]

Im with you Big_unit.

[Big_Ren]

I had heard that their venom is far more potent than the most deadly land snakes. I believe their fangs are only very small though I don't want to get that close
I was was honeymooning with my wife in Fiji in March and snorkelled in a lagoon that I later discovered had a healthy population of sea snakes. We saw them at night in the water under the floodlights of the outdoor restaurant...pretty creatures indeed....black and white striped.

Cheers
Paul

[Grand_Marlin]

They do have an interesting taste in the barbie ... sort of a cross between Dolphin & Platypus

[tunaman]

Grand marlin! A BBQ at your place would be interesting?
any kangeroo or emu?






signed tunaman

[lock]

I was fishing near hearvy bay with my girlfreinds uncle we heard a strange noise looked around and saw a massive snake heading towards the boat it had its head up which was large and diamond shaped . It had to have been 3m (make aalowance for exageration )I threw a sinker at it and it spun around and went opposite direction I dont think I would like that bugger coming aboard.

[Gbanger]

Exaggeration and fisherman!? never!!...

good work with the sinker, but i dont think id rely on that...

grandmarlin you can troll dolphins and catch sperm whales u know

[marzoe]

I heard that its very hard for sea snakes to bite you because their fangs are at the back of their mouth and to get bitten you would have to put your finger down their throat. Whether this is true I don't know. Had one come up next to the boat and hiss at me the other day. Scared the sh*t out of me.

[agnes_jack]

I love sea snakes!!!!
(not in the boat though)
Best thing to do when you see one in the water out on the ocean is hit the gps and mark the spot They don't usually live on sand

Regards, Tony

[Sea-Dog]

I knew a bloke back in my trawler fishing days 20 something years ago that got bitten by one.

It was only a teensy one about 2 feet long from memory of what he said.

It bit him in the webbing between thumb and index finger.

He said that within 20 minutes of being bitten, his arm swelled up to the diameter of his leg, and turned almost black.

A radio call soon produced a surf rescue helicopter that took him on a joyride to the Townsville hospital.

He was in hospital for about a week if memory serves correctly.

When I met him, he still had the puncture marks visible in the webbing between thumb and finger.
(I met him a couple of years after the incident)

We used to just grab whatever bit of the snake was visible from beneath the pile of scallop shells and whatever else was laying on the trawler's sorting tray and give them a fling over the side.

I had a Maori mate who was a bit too enthusiastic with his flinging one time. Instead of flinging outwards, he used a bit too much upward action.

Unknown to him, the snake got tangled in the rigging overhead. About 30 seconds later as my mate was going on with his sorting, the snake untangled itself and dropped onto his shoulders.

I am told that he turned white and flung it so hard, that it may have gone into orbit.

This guy was a big boy too. He used to easily carry a 50Kg bag of salt in each hand down the wharf from the the fishboard and onto the trawler.

Personally, I think that snake was the bravest creature that I have ever heard of.


..... Just a couple of the many interesting events that happen on fishing trawlers.

Cheers, Sea-Dog.

[tshort]

Good -one sea dog. Ive heard lots of people talk about Sea snakes and how they cant bite you because their heads are too small, fangs are too small blah, blah blah. One of the blokes telling me reckons he had even been a pro. diver but on questioning him he hadnt even seen a sea snake. We shouldnt believe everything we hear or read should we and definately not repeat it as truth.