How to treat sting and venomous creature from indonesia ocean.

⭐️               You will lived and for god sake be a man about it

⭐️⭐️           Annoying and pray you dont have allergy

⭐️⭐️⭐️      This is when you scream your mommy and need medical aid.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  Your @#%#!!! Go to the hospital ASAP!!

Make sure before you dive you know where is the nearest hospital or clinic. Also getting certify in EAR or CPR will make you a local hero someday. Learn pressure-immobilisation technique.

Carry small first aid kit: bandage, alcohol swabs, tweezers, icepack, antiseptic cream, local anaesthetic cream or oitment.

Bluebottle Jellyfish ⭐️⭐️

The blue float is around 5-10 cm and tentacles can be up to 3 meter long. 

Symptoms:  sharp, severe pain, sweating, itching and nausea

First aid: remove tentacles gently, with tweezers. Apply hot water and no vinegar or else there will be more venom injected to the skin. If the reaction is severe , seek medical help

Irukandji ⭐️⭐️⭐️

1-2 cm long with 4 tentacles up 1 meter long.

Symptoms: main symptoms occur 10-60 minutes after, low backache, abdominal pain, cramps in the limb, abdomen, and chest. Sweating, headaches and vomiting

First aid: apply icepack. Check breathing and pulse, EAR or CPR is needed if necessary and seek medical help immedietly

Jimble ⭐️⭐️⭐️

1 cm across and four 5 cm tentacles.

Symptoms: painful sting, swelling and redness

First aid: gently remove tentacles with tweezers, apply icepack or cold compress or local anaesthetic cream. Seek medical aid if it get worst

Box Jellyfish ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Square shaped 30 cm across with multiple 3 meter tentacles

Symptoms: swollen lines of purple or dark brown, agonising pain, loss consciousness, cessation of breathing and death.

First aid: dont rubb the stung area, apply tons of household vinegar to the tentacles for atleast 30'sec. Apply pressure immobilisation bandage. If necessary commence EAR or CPR and go to hospital for antivenom.

Fire coral ⭐️

This way wetsuit come handy. It can be fern or sponge like usually brown or yellow/green.

Symptoms: stinging, itchiness and painful burning. Weals and swelling

First aid: local anaesthetic oitment to reduce pain,  or immerse the area with hot water or hot pack.

Stinging seaweed or fire weed ⭐️

30 cm long feathery green, brown, white and purple attached to rocks.

Symptoms: stinging 10-15 minute affect and leave blotchy red with weals.

First aid: wash with water and use local anaesthetic oitment or just be man about it!

Rabbitfish ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Local fisherman favorite fish to deep fried. Well i know a lot of people who come from overseas to spearfish in indonesia and got stung and start crying. If this happen to you just be a man about or apply hot water and try to remove the spine.

Butterfly Cod aka Lionfish ⭐️⭐️⭐️

You always see them other rock or on top of coral. Just avoid them. If you are stupid enough to provoke the fish to erect their spine and manage to poke you. 

Symptoms: a lot of pain, swollen wound, hot, numb and tissue around the wound become red or bluish.

First aid: remove spine, apply hot water and go to the hospital.

Stonefish aka rockfish ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tasty fish at chinese restaurant but sneaky bastard in the sea. This is a serious fish that can cause death. They burrows into sand and mud so be carefully.

Symptoms: immediate pain from puncture wound, it get worst until is excrutiating! Lose consciouness, swollen, hot, numb and tissue around the wound turn red and bluish.

First aid kit: helicopter ride to hospital to get an antivenom ASAP!

Sea Urchins ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Very common in Indonesia water but easily to detect them to avoid.

Symptoms: severe pain but you can manage and be a man about it. Swelling, numb and inflammation.

First aid : remove spine vertically and make sure it doesnt break off. Move the affected limb to ease the pain.

Stay save spearos...

Nusa Penida, 8.5.2014

Since my first trip to Nusa Penida, I know what people really mean when they talk about crystal clear water. As a former diver I've already seen clear water in the Red Sea, on the West Coast of Australia, in the Andaman Sea and even on one or two occasions in the South of Bali. But seeing close to 50 meters under water was something I haven't been privileged to experience so far. This was reason enough to really look forward to my second trip to this little, beautiful island off the East Coast of Bali.

Already before I jumped into the water, I noticed that something was different this time. At my favourite spot around the island, a lot of things were floating on the water. Some wood, some leaves and a lot of plastic trash. It was strange to see the Canang Cari slowly drifting from the boat to the massive garbage carpet as soon as it was given to the sea. So this offering for the gods given by my two local friends ahead of every fishing day was for once not the beautiful and impressive tradition I've learnt to appreciate so much. The trash just didn't fit to this underwater paradise full of  beautiful, healthy corals, turtles and all kinds of fish. I'd rather wanted to see some sharks instead. But it seems that we humans see trash as a replacement for everything we take out of the sea...

Also not impressive was the water below the surface. A visibility of around 15 meters might be highly welcome in South Bali, but for sure not at this underwater heaven. The reason for the poor visibility was not only the milky water, but also some more trash. Huge amounts of garbage were floating in the current. My eyes didn't want to believe it at first, but there was no doubt that this was the very spot where the term “crystal clear water” was explained to me a little while ago.

I didn't have a lot of time to be disappointed though. Because soon I noticed that between the pieces of plastic were also some fish. So I dived down to take a closer look and soon met a big group of Rainbowrunners. I tried to get myself into a good position, but wasn't able to get close enough to a fish. On my second dive I was more lucky. I didn't even have to dive deep to meet the Rainbowrunners, because one approached me from behind and swam right into my reach.

I had no time to enjoy the catch of this beautiful fish, because luck decided to be on my side this day. Right after my first catch I spotted the silhouette of a fish right in front of me, but quite deep down. The fish didn't look that big, but I was sure it was not one of the Unicorn or Surgeon fish roaming around this spot. So I took a deep breath and dived slowly straight down. When I was at the same depth as the fish, I noticed two things: I was right about the species, but wrong about its size. Just 6 or 7 meters away was a big Giant Trevally swimming around.

My first reaction was the same as always: Excitement. The moment I notice a big fish around, instinct takes over. My heartbeat doubles in a matter of seconds and my bloodstream is taken over by adrenaline. All the skills I've acquired over the past two years are gone. My inner voice screams like a maniac and my ego already sings a song about the great fisherman.

I know this feeling pretty good, because I've already had the luck to see a few big fish before. But for the first time I could calm down my heart and successfully control my instinct to rush towards the fish. Gently kicking my fins I managed to slowly approach the fish without scaring it off. The moment I shot, all the suppressed excitement came back up and put myself in a fight I'll hardly ever forget. I gave my everything to land this fish. And my efforts paid off: It was finally time to take home my first really big fish...

Actually this is not even true, because the fish of almost 10 kilos never left the island. I had the opportunity to share it with my friends, their families and their friends. Close to 20 people were around when we barbecued the fish over an open fire in the evening and enjoyed it with delicious Sambal Mentah. And because I know that nothing of the fish was wasted and that the fish was really appreciated, I'm very happy that I still have to bring my first big fish home...

Thank you guys for your time and sampai jumpa lagi

Text and photo by:

David Aeneas Giger

If you think you caught big fish, check out the current world record spearos

I listed all the world record fish that you can catch around Indonesia. You never know one day new record could be made from Indonesia.

For the world record rules please click the link IUSARECORDS

Paul A Smith 29.4 kg Great Barracuda

Valente baena 66.2 kg cobia

Peter Mcgonalge 31.8 kg Mahi-mahi aka dolphinfish

Paul Spence 9.2kg Longnose Emperor

Aaron puckeridge 17kg green Jobfish

Humerto Santos 34 kg spanish Mackerel

Marc Alexander 25 kg Milkfish and 12.5 kg Maori seaperch aka Scribbled Snapper

Cameron A kirkconnell 91 kg Dogtooth Tuna

Travis kashiwa 65.4 kg Giant Trevally

Chip Evans 21.5 kg Permit

Emiliano Finochhi 12.2kg Queenfish aka Talang

Kell Kielly 11.5kg Rainbow Runner

All information are from IUSA Records

Special edition: Hot chicks who Spearfish...

No spearfishing report Today, just want to share Beautiful Ladies who enjoy Spearfishing and have better lucks than some of us.

Valentine Thomas

 

Kimi Werner  

Katerina Topouzoglou

Shae Holmes

Gemma Shields 

Taylah Matindale

Jessie Cripps

Natalie Vercoe

Rachel Vercoe

 Bonus

Today Matteo sunset dive at Lombok

Wave is flat, current was mild just before sunset. But as soon as the current started to get stronger the action started, two visitor arrived GT and Dogtooth Tuna.

Spearfishing GT

Spearfishing Dogtooth Tuna