Sydney nurse shares lucky escape after unwittingly posing with deadly sea creatore while on holiday
A Sydney nurse is “lucky to be alive” after unwittingly picking up and posing with a deadly sea creature while on an island holiday.
An Australian nurse is “very, very lucky to be alive” after unwittingly picking up and posing with a deadly sea creature.
Happy snaps from a 2017 holiday in the Pacific, recently shared on social media, show Sydney Nurse Suzanne Parrish posing with a venomous sea krait — a type of water snake that can kill up to 10 adults with a single bite – during a holiday in New Caledonia.
Ms Parrish and her partner spotted the “seemingly cute snake” on the shore.
They stopped to take pictures, and Ms Parrish even admits to kissing the snake.
But later, she learned how narrowly she dodged catastrophe.
“I learnt how venomous they were when we went to a local museum that had information regarding the snake and how venomous it was,” she told Yahoo News Australia.
According to Yahoo, Australians aware of the images described the fact she walked away unscathed as “dumb luck”.
Others said it was a perfect example of the “don’t know, don’t touch” philosophy regarding unknown wildlife.
Ms Parrish reshared the images online to discourage others from making the same mistake she did.
“I joined the [Facebook] group a bit ago for funny posts and realised I had something relatable to share,” she told Yahoo about reposting it to a group dedicated to deadly near-misses.
The most recent death in Australia caused by a sea krait occurred in 2018, when a working holidaymaker handling a fishing net on a trawler was bitten in the Northern Territory.
Harry Evans, the trawler, was the first person to be killed by a sea snake bite in over 80 years in Australia.
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The 23-year-old UK national had been working for Ocean Exporter, a Darwin-based prawn trawler owned by WA Seafood Exporters.
The trawler was approximately 75km northeast of Bing Bong in the Gulf of Carpentaria when a request for assistance was made.
An Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokesperson said crew from its rescue catamaran reached the vessel and declared the man dead.
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