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Subject: Bleeding Sea
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shadow27 7.08.17 - 09:35am
A Melbourne teenager has gone for a dip at the beach and come out covered in blood and looking like a horror movie extra.

When Sam Kanizay, 16, felt sore after football on Saturday, he decided to soak his legs at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton just before 6:30pm.

Half an hour later, he walked out covered in what his family said were tiny marine creatures eating his legs.

Museums Victoria has confirmed the tiny animals were identified as lysianassid amphipods, a type of scavenging crustacean. * +

mikeymk 7.08.17 - 09:38am
A bath might have been a better option. * +

shadow27 7.08.17 - 09:39am
''I walked out and saw what I thought was sand covering my calf and shook it off, and by the time I'd walked across the sand about 20 metres to put my thongs on, I looked down and noticed I had blood all over my ankles,'' he said.

Sam said he wasn't in any pain at first, so he walked home from the beach and had a shower.

''I couldn't feel anything because the cold water basically numbed my legs, I felt what I thought was pins and needles,'' he told 3AW.
''It sort of looked like hundreds of little pinholes or pin-sized bites distributed all over my ankle and the top of my foot,'' he said.
''We've had a few people just guessing that it was sea lice but there was no real evidence to say what it was.'' * +

shadow27 7.08.17 - 09:42am
The next night, Mr Kanizay went back to the beach with a pool net full of meat and captured the creatures he said were responsible.
''What is really clear is these little things really love meat,'' he said of a video he shot, showing the bugs in a tray of water devouring chunks of meat.

Ok, I see. It doesn't usually happen, he was just standing still in the water there long enough for these things to start eating him. Cool story. * +

obi_jon 7.08.17 - 09:47am
Lysianassid amphipods? I'm sure i've heard about those before somewhere. Hang on, i'm just gonna go check something. * +

dodgey 7.08.17 - 09:47am
That'll bring the sharks in. * +

dodgey 7.08.17 - 09:48am

@ obi_jon - 7.08.17 - 09:47am
Lysianassid amphipods? I'm sure i've heard about those before somewhere. Hang on, i'm just gonna go check something.

Off to google as usual * +

wickedwitch 7.08.17 - 09:53am
Aww bless * +

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