In Australia, previously non-aggressive marine fleas almost ate alive a teenager

A couple of days ago on one of the popular Melbourne beaches Brighton Beach there was a bloody incident.

After the football match of local teenager decided to plunge into the Bay near the aforementioned beach. 30 minutes later he came out of the water and found his feet in the truest sense of the word, eat some small sea creatures. They bit into the skin and leaving the wound, the blood from which the father of a teenager self I couldn't stop it. Sam brought to the nearest hospital, where the staff were very puzzled by the hundreds of small holes on his legs.

The case has attracted experts toxicologists and marine biologists. They suggested that most likely the teenager attacked the so-called sea fleas, which usually eat dead flesh, like dead fish, and harmless to humans. But as it turned out, not for Sam.

"It was like a war trauma ... the blood was really a lot," he told BBC News Jarrod of Kenisa, the father of a teenager. "We took him in the shower, but the blood flowed and flowed. Not minimized", he added.

When the two hospitals were not able to identify the cause of the bites, the man decided to find out on her own. He went to the beach and collected samples of tiny creatures that swam in the water. Now he is waiting for the opinion of experts on this issue.

"Usually sea fleas not lurk in the water like piranhas," says marine biologist Walker-Smith.

By the way, a couple of years ago, neighboring Brighton Beach the beach is a similar case occurred two bathers were bitten severely. Marine biologists can't explain what triggered sea fleas to this behavior.

And if it was indeed sea fleas and not some other creature? The only common factor for both cases was practically the same location and month – August. In General, the winter in this Bay without a wetsuit better to swim.

Sea fleas or gammarids this tiny crustaceans. Usually eat the remains of other small animals, abandoned pieces of bread and other organic remains. They live generally in the wet sand near the water, although sometimes unable to leave the water for a few meters and settle in the deeper layers of sand. Unable to bite swimmers, but usually not so aggressive and bloodthirsty, as in the above case.

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