Sayago, J.M., Collantes, M.M., Karlson, A. SYDNEY - A swim while on holiday at a Western Australia beach has resulted in a painful octopus 'whipping' - and a video of the. The incident took place on a Western Australia beach when geologist and author Lance Karlson was about to take a dip near the resort he and his family were staying at in Geographe Bay, on. As he and his daughter got closer to investigate, he realized it wasn’t a stingray like he thought, it was an angry-looking octopus crouched down in the shallow waters. Geologist and author Lance Karlson posted a video of the encounter. “The pain went away and more than anything since then, it’s been more the physical hit that was painful… The imprint on my neck in those photos is more from the physical hit, and I guess it makes complete sense when you look at the video I took 20 minutes earlier of that lashing out,” he said.īryan Fry, an associate professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland, identified the octopus as a common Octopus vulgaris. In: Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section, Centennial Field Guide, pp. Geologist from Perth, Australia, Lance Karlson, was enjoying a day at the beach with his daughter when he spotted something jumping out of the water trying to strike a seagull. All his family could grab was Coca-Cola, which his wife poured over his back in the shower and the pain dissipated. Geologist and author Lance Karlson was about to take a dip near the resort he and his family were staying at in Geographe Bay, on Australias southwest coast, when he spotted what he thought was. Within a minute, a perfect imprint of an octopus tentacle appeared on Karlson’s neck and back.Ī former volunteer lifeguard, Karlson rushed back to his hotel room to find something acidic to put on the wound.
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