Mystery Fish Attacking Bathers!!
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Bathers off Jebel Ali have reported a series of agonising attacks that have left marine experts scratching their heads. So far, four attacks by the mystery creature have been reported. All the victims suffered profuse bleeding and severe pain lasting up to eight hours. The bathers speculated it might have been a stingray, but marine experts say it could be a red herring. Whatever it is, it’s got spines and a venom gland…
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well if that is a picture of the thing that attacked those people it is a stonefish. they look just like stones on the sea floor and when you are about to step on them a bunch of spines on their back shoot up. it not fatal it just causes extreme pain.
Yes I’ve actually seen these fish before, their from Italy! Their scientific name is lettamebiteayouainadaassfishalitis AKA The bumbiter fish.
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Do the reasons not stop…the ocean is a most treachorous place!
I’m sticking to land thank you…..
What a cool picture!!
That’s a mighty mean looking fish!
Aww he looks so grumpy that it’s cute!
yoshro(top of page) is right its a stone fish.
Yoshro is wrong, that fish is a scorpion fish, similar to a stone fish but not as lethal. Weird occurance…serial stinger on the loose?
In my expert opinion – the entire area must be electrocuted.
listem- it could be a new speicies, we never know,,,,, sometimes with a genetic code to another speices meets up with antoher speices you can get a different half and half animal. i MEAN WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE ARE TLAKING ABOUT. Reaserch it……. i mean it could be a STONE FISH, IT COULD BE ANYTHING……….
Yar, yoshro is right. Thar be stonefish.