Stung by a lionfish - 24h PAIN Report!
Despite all precautions, it happened that Joanna got stung by a lionfish in the index finger of her right hand. The worst pain experience since we liveaboard ever! We went on a quick snorkel trip with friends to shoot some lionfish in the face. This beautiful but aggressive invasive scorpionfish species Pterois volitans and Pterois Miles are rappidly increasing in the Carribbean and have no native preditors yet. An adult lionfish can eat up to 50 fish babies from other species every single day. Uncontrolled, the lionfish is capable to empty out whole reefs in short time. Diver and snorkler lately started to join local fishing teams to shoot as much lionfish as possible in order to keep the population low. As the lionfish is known a very good eaten fish, also we contribute to this activitys whenever we can. Unfortunately this time it went wrong and Joanna got stung by one of the backspines of the venomous lion fish. The toxin is known as extremely painfull and as it was happening anyway - the best we could do out of the situation was, to put a video for you together to make this disaster educational and show you how the toxiticy affects a human body. The symptoms could be extreme pain, nausea, vomiting, vefer, breathing difficulties, convulsions, dizziness, redness on the affected area, headache, numbness, paresthesia, heartburn, diarrhea and sweating. Rarely, such stings can cause temporary paralyses of the limbs, heart failure and even death. In the TV Show "Kings of Pain" the lionfish venom was higher rated than any other so far. Joanna survived with only few of the possible symptoms and here is how she made it trough this unjoyfull travel experience. However we hope you can enjoy with this video a painless peek into this toxic torture because... we will certainly not do it again ;-)
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We don't realy know the music at 10:23 It was the electionday in Dominica and around this time the results went public. So we give the credits to the winner of the election and getting not further into politics with this video ;-)
PS: Here is the reason why we need to hunt for Lionfish in the Carribbean: https://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/692622...
This video is a re-edited version and is the second upload. Some szenes had to be removed and Joanna said a bad word somewhere ;-) However all your comments and likes are safed and much appreciated.
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