My normal Sunday consist on a long drive and 1h kayaking to my favorite spot and finally spend the rest of the day diving... haaaaaa! feels better.
Well last sunday was a perfect one: I first manage to get my quota of 6 crayfish on a complex cave I call "cray city", and before to move to yellow tail waters, I fly with my new Matrix fins trough a cave that have a narrow horizontal exit
. On my way out I fell a kind of elastic bounce on my head: instinctively I protect myself with my arm and immediately feel lots and lots of pain on my fingers .
Two weeks earlier I lost on the same spot halve 20kg kingfish to a single bite from a big bronze waller... and I get kind of worried at my fingers! but I then saw a sting ray getting away. He seem that I hit with my head the belly of the ray: how stupid is that?
The glove and my fingers had been badly slash by the stings of the ray. I always think that a ray will leave his sting on a wound (I just found a tiny bit: the tip)... sorry to specify, but in soft meat the sting will enter easily, and will saw a big nasty wound taking away all sort of little pieces of flesh and nerves on his way out. A ray have more than one barbed sting and he seem that at least two of them encounter my fingers. Lucky in of to protect my head with my arm!!!
After the encounter I still need to get all the stuff back to the kayak, paddle 30 min until a boat hep me ( I get a VHF, but I could see the boat and better avoid the kind of helicopter rescue I could get from the coast guards...), get to the car, first aid and 2 h drive to the hospital where I wait 4h to see a doctor.
I will say plenty of pain, and a hard time from some of the guys that give me a hand... diving alone... freediving if for inconsequent nuts... your neoprene is to thin... what goes to think your mum: get off!!! I don't even bother to try to explain. I know you guys feel good down there... feels good too on this forum: "thank you" to everyone !
My hand will come back to shape, and in a couple of weeks I will go back to dance with the sting rays, as with the sharks I will never shoot them! and for the one that sting me I will say :naughty.
Ho! yes... there is the new elios suit I'm thinking about ...
Well last sunday was a perfect one: I first manage to get my quota of 6 crayfish on a complex cave I call "cray city", and before to move to yellow tail waters, I fly with my new Matrix fins trough a cave that have a narrow horizontal exit
. On my way out I fell a kind of elastic bounce on my head: instinctively I protect myself with my arm and immediately feel lots and lots of pain on my fingers .Two weeks earlier I lost on the same spot halve 20kg kingfish to a single bite from a big bronze waller... and I get kind of worried at my fingers! but I then saw a sting ray getting away. He seem that I hit with my head the belly of the ray: how stupid is that?
The glove and my fingers had been badly slash by the stings of the ray. I always think that a ray will leave his sting on a wound (I just found a tiny bit: the tip)... sorry to specify, but in soft meat the sting will enter easily, and will saw a big nasty wound taking away all sort of little pieces of flesh and nerves on his way out. A ray have more than one barbed sting and he seem that at least two of them encounter my fingers. Lucky in of to protect my head with my arm!!!
After the encounter I still need to get all the stuff back to the kayak, paddle 30 min until a boat hep me ( I get a VHF, but I could see the boat and better avoid the kind of helicopter rescue I could get from the coast guards...), get to the car, first aid and 2 h drive to the hospital where I wait 4h to see a doctor.
I will say plenty of pain, and a hard time from some of the guys that give me a hand... diving alone... freediving if for inconsequent nuts... your neoprene is to thin... what goes to think your mum: get off!!! I don't even bother to try to explain. I know you guys feel good down there... feels good too on this forum: "thank you" to everyone
!My hand will come back to shape, and in a couple of weeks I will go back to dance with the sting rays, as with the sharks I will never shoot them! and for the one that sting me I will say :naughty.
Ho! yes... there is the new elios suit I'm thinking about
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