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Good afternoon, experienced tourists of Egypt!
I became interested in the topic "Death Rest" in the forum, there is so much information there, but as they say "dry theory, my friend."
I would like to know how things really are there, is everything so terrible? Share your experience if someone was really bitten by a moray eel or another fish? Who stepped on the sea urchin and what happened next? Does anyone have a negative experience with venomous snakes, jellyfish, Portuguese boats or something else?
I became interested in the topic "Death Rest" in the forum, there is so much information there, but as they say "dry theory, my friend."
I would like to know how things really are there, is everything so terrible? Share your experience if someone was really bitten by a moray eel or another fish? Who stepped on the sea urchin and what happened next? Does anyone have a negative experience with venomous snakes, jellyfish, Portuguese boats or something else?
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The hedgehog clutched painfully at the heel,
I tore my throat very hard.
Needles stuck to the bone
I had to carry my leg...
(from my art)
after a hedgehog bite.
Hassen, the police major had a meeting with the ship. Who will tell you what?
I tore my throat very hard.
Needles stuck to the bone
I had to carry my leg...
(from my art)
after a hedgehog bite.
Hassen, the police major had a meeting with the ship. Who will tell you what?
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answered 15 years ago
The question, of course, is correct. Maybe the information will be useful to someone.
After I got my foot into the reticulated stinging coral during excitement, I remained alive :)
Therefore, I can share my impressions.
Living corals burn ALL. And the mesh and lamellar millepora leave burns on the body that look like a trace from a red-hot iron. The scars last for more than six months. Have a bottle of table vinegar with you. And if, nevertheless, you touch the coral, wash the burn area with sea water and then with vinegar.
Repeatedly. Better yet, gently swim around any corals!
After I got my foot into the reticulated stinging coral during excitement, I remained alive :)
Therefore, I can share my impressions.
Living corals burn ALL. And the mesh and lamellar millepora leave burns on the body that look like a trace from a red-hot iron. The scars last for more than six months. Have a bottle of table vinegar with you. And if, nevertheless, you touch the coral, wash the burn area with sea water and then with vinegar.
Repeatedly. Better yet, gently swim around any corals!
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answered 15 years ago
@fukkkkka
Quote "Who will tell you what?"
What's the problem? Here people share their experiences, both good and bad, for this purpose, "questions / answers" are created.
Not everyone lives by the principle: since I felt bad, I won’t say anything to anyone, even if others will not feel better either.
Quote "Who will tell you what?"
What's the problem? Here people share their experiences, both good and bad, for this purpose, "questions / answers" are created.
Not everyone lives by the principle: since I felt bad, I won’t say anything to anyone, even if others will not feel better either.
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answered 15 years ago
And you @Kasja23,
thanks for the answer from personal experience.
I have been watching various questions / answers on this site for a couple of months, but this topic has not been raised, probably not relevant, or everyone with more experience or does not attach much importance to this problem.
thanks for the answer from personal experience.
I have been watching various questions / answers on this site for a couple of months, but this topic has not been raised, probably not relevant, or everyone with more experience or does not attach much importance to this problem.
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answered 15 years ago
I will supplement my answer with a photo of a reticulated stinging coral.
http://www.turpravda.ua/foto/54494.html
Before the trip, I did not pay much attention to the study of corals. And in vain :)
http://www.turpravda.ua/foto/54494.html
Before the trip, I did not pay much attention to the study of corals. And in vain :)
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answered 15 years ago
Well, I got burned, though I don’t even know what.. In a month, there was no trace left.. The scratch from the corals (well scratched) also healed for the same amount. Although I don’t understand kipish on this issue - behave carefully and neither moray eels nor hedgehogs will throw themselves at you with the aim of attack))) .. when you go to our forest, you are also afraid of snakes, but still go)) )))
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answered 15 years ago
Last year, on the beach, out of my own stupidity, I stepped on a sea urchin, which of all the varieties I don’t know, it wasn’t before. I felt as if I had driven a splinter. about deaths became even worse1 I turned to the locals, what should I do? They pulled out two needles at once - a glass of whiskey. They took them to a local restaurant, and applied a napkin soaked in hot vegetable oil to the places with needles. With such a compress, I sat for 10 minutes, the napkin was replaced a couple of times. I’m heeled with iodine. Two of the remaining ones actually left before departure, and one was smuggled through customs :) Since then, on the beach, even sandy, only in slippers!
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answered 15 years ago
@templier71
I have never been to the Red Sea, and as you know, it is very rich in various living creatures. And I had a similar question, as I already wrote, after this topic in the forum. So I wanted to know how things really are?
Before, such questions did not arise either in the Atlantic, or in the Mediterranean Sea, or in any other seas, and there were no problems either.
I have never been to the Red Sea, and as you know, it is very rich in various living creatures. And I had a similar question, as I already wrote, after this topic in the forum. So I wanted to know how things really are?
Before, such questions did not arise either in the Atlantic, or in the Mediterranean Sea, or in any other seas, and there were no problems either.
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answered 15 years ago
@dama
thank you very much for the answer, of course, it is better to learn from the mistakes of others, and it does not hurt to have extra information at all!
Maybe someone else besides me is going to Egypt for the first time, and this information, I think, is far from useless!
It's good that this topic is discussed both on the forum and here.
thank you very much for the answer, of course, it is better to learn from the mistakes of others, and it does not hurt to have extra information at all!
Maybe someone else besides me is going to Egypt for the first time, and this information, I think, is far from useless!
It's good that this topic is discussed both on the forum and here.
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answered 15 years ago
Quote "Who will tell you what?" -
the man died, and therefore can not tell anything.
the man died, and therefore can not tell anything.
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answered 15 years ago
when we went to rest, we went to the beach with corrals, everyone was wearing special slippers! but my mother apparently didn’t notice the hedgehog and came (were then for the first time in Egypt), naturally immediately panicked, turned to the local, said it’s okay, anoint with lemon, came to the hotel, said what was the matter, a couple of days of lemon and they themselves resolved (hedgehog was black with long needles)
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answered 15 years ago
Thanks everyone for the replies!
As can be seen from the answers, the main danger is represented by hedgehogs, and partly by corals.
I'll be glad if someone else answers!
As can be seen from the answers, the main danger is represented by hedgehogs, and partly by corals.
I'll be glad if someone else answers!
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answered 15 years ago
there are really a lot of hedgehogs in the corals.
when I swam there, I just tried not to touch them (they swim in corals and not in the sea), I also tried not to step on corals.
and in general there for 10 dollars you can buy slippers for swimming.
when I swam there, I just tried not to touch them (they swim in corals and not in the sea), I also tried not to step on corals.
and in general there for 10 dollars you can buy slippers for swimming.
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answered 15 years ago
We have already been in Egypt many times, thank God, without incidents. But on the first day of my stay, my sister managed to burn her leg with corals, and her friend was stinged by jellyfish, so almost all the days of their stay they did not go into the sea until the rash disappeared ... Nothing did not smear, it just went away on its own ...
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answered 15 years ago
The main danger is what you know little about and you can grab by negligence.
For example, cones - on my first trip to Egypt, I would take them with my hand, because I could not swim past such beauty, I would want to touch them. Fortunately, then there were no cones, and on the next trips I found them at a depth of half a meter, and showed other tourists not to touch such things.
Another recent example is the Portuguese boat. He is so beautiful that many try to touch.
Well, what I personally checked on myself - the burn of a jellyfish. (True, it was not the Red Sea). He swam without a mask and glasses, dived into the wave - a gelatinous mass stuck to his face. It was very painful, the skin on the face was bubbling and peeling off. I was afraid that I would be left without eyes - for three days I could not open my eyes at all, they festered very much, and when I tried to open it, it was terribly painful from the light. And then it went away on its own.
And after that, without glasses or a mask, I don’t swim at all in any bodies of water.
For example, cones - on my first trip to Egypt, I would take them with my hand, because I could not swim past such beauty, I would want to touch them. Fortunately, then there were no cones, and on the next trips I found them at a depth of half a meter, and showed other tourists not to touch such things.
Another recent example is the Portuguese boat. He is so beautiful that many try to touch.
Well, what I personally checked on myself - the burn of a jellyfish. (True, it was not the Red Sea). He swam without a mask and glasses, dived into the wave - a gelatinous mass stuck to his face. It was very painful, the skin on the face was bubbling and peeling off. I was afraid that I would be left without eyes - for three days I could not open my eyes at all, they festered very much, and when I tried to open it, it was terribly painful from the light. And then it went away on its own.
And after that, without glasses or a mask, I don’t swim at all in any bodies of water.
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answered 15 years ago
@Dreamer
"The main danger is what you know little about and you can grab by negligence."
This is exactly my case! I try to collect as much information as possible, while there is still time, both from theory and from practice!
As I see from all kinds of correspondence, some are also going to Egypt for the first time, and perhaps this information will not be useless for them!
"The main danger is what you know little about and you can grab by negligence."
This is exactly my case! I try to collect as much information as possible, while there is still time, both from theory and from practice!
As I see from all kinds of correspondence, some are also going to Egypt for the first time, and perhaps this information will not be useless for them!
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answered 15 years ago
Don't be so afraid.
The main idea of all warnings - "look, and do not touch." Touching is meant not only with hands, but also with feet, flippers, etc.
If you are careful in the water, treat the underwater world with respect - do not walk on corals, do not break them, do not try to grab moray eels by the tail, do not swim in a flock of lionfish, and most importantly - do not touch any objects in the water at all, and be all time attentive - then everything will be fine.
The Red Sea is amazingly beautiful and worth seeing.
The main idea of all warnings - "look, and do not touch." Touching is meant not only with hands, but also with feet, flippers, etc.
If you are careful in the water, treat the underwater world with respect - do not walk on corals, do not break them, do not try to grab moray eels by the tail, do not swim in a flock of lionfish, and most importantly - do not touch any objects in the water at all, and be all time attentive - then everything will be fine.
The Red Sea is amazingly beautiful and worth seeing.
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answered 15 years ago
Spontaneously decided to make a small list of what not to do;)
1. Do not walk on corals. This is harmful to both them and you - you can both burn yourself and just get hurt.
2. Do not swim without a mask or goggles - there may be zebra lionfish, jellyfish, "boats", etc. in the water column. - that is, you should always see what is happening next to you and below you.
3. Do not touch shells with your hands, especially unfamiliar ones. You can run into a poisonous injection.
4. Do not stick your fingers and fins into tridacnid - slam shut, it will not be released with all the consequences ...
5. Do not swim above and near corals in a strong wave - it can stamp on your foot or belly.
6. Do not get carried away chasing fish, especially for balistoids and surgeons. They can start defending the territory. I checked it myself.
7. Do not annoy the moray eels with your presence, especially when they take an attacking position - the tail is hidden in corals, a third of the body and the muzzle are sticking out.
eight.
Do not swim in muddy water - you can run into poisonous fish or coral.
9. Do not feed the fish - and it is harmful for them, and for you - they begin to become brutal.
10. Do not swim in large schools of fish, especially when they are being hunted by a predator.
11. If you are unsure about swimming, then it is better not to swim alone.
1. Do not walk on corals. This is harmful to both them and you - you can both burn yourself and just get hurt.
2. Do not swim without a mask or goggles - there may be zebra lionfish, jellyfish, "boats", etc. in the water column. - that is, you should always see what is happening next to you and below you.
3. Do not touch shells with your hands, especially unfamiliar ones. You can run into a poisonous injection.
4. Do not stick your fingers and fins into tridacnid - slam shut, it will not be released with all the consequences ...
5. Do not swim above and near corals in a strong wave - it can stamp on your foot or belly.
6. Do not get carried away chasing fish, especially for balistoids and surgeons. They can start defending the territory. I checked it myself.
7. Do not annoy the moray eels with your presence, especially when they take an attacking position - the tail is hidden in corals, a third of the body and the muzzle are sticking out.
eight.
Do not swim in muddy water - you can run into poisonous fish or coral.
9. Do not feed the fish - and it is harmful for them, and for you - they begin to become brutal.
10. Do not swim in large schools of fish, especially when they are being hunted by a predator.
11. If you are unsure about swimming, then it is better not to swim alone.
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answered 15 years ago
Dreamer_0x01
Your list can be printed out and put on the bedside table for all newcomers to the hotel!
Short and clear!
Your list can be printed out and put on the bedside table for all newcomers to the hotel!
Short and clear!
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answered 15 years ago
Thank you. True, there are no recommendations for encounters with sharks, but this is already for those who have personally seen them - I have not seen them, it is so rare.
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answered 15 years ago
THANK YOU!!!
No matter how much fear I have, well, general recommendations will not hurt. Of course, I won’t arrange a chase for fish, I just want to look at the fish a little, a little at the corals, in order to have a general idea. It's just that the Red Sea differs from all other seas in its inhabitants, and accordingly it has its own characteristics. Thanks again.
No matter how much fear I have, well, general recommendations will not hurt. Of course, I won’t arrange a chase for fish, I just want to look at the fish a little, a little at the corals, in order to have a general idea. It's just that the Red Sea differs from all other seas in its inhabitants, and accordingly it has its own characteristics. Thanks again.
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