makes you want to dive with your mouth shut......

[paddler3d]

Wow, they look like these little critters I was catching with my toes in the sand when I was a kid visiting Virginia Beach. They never bit me though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerita_(genus)

These are what you saw off of VA beach.

 

[cbrich]

Tongue eating, ha, nothing compared to the brain eating ones we have in Texas.

Naegleria fowleri (pronounced /nə'ɡlɪə.ɹiə/)(also known as the brain eating amoeba) is a free living amoeba typically found in warm fresh water, from 25–35 degrees Celsius (77–95 degrees Fahrenheit) in an amoeboid or temporary flagellate stage. It belongs to a group called the Percolozoa or Heterolobosea.

N. fowleri can be found in all bodies of water in Texas (even pools) except colder water, typically spring fed. In late summer, the amoeba caused the death of a 12-year-old boy and a 22-year-old young man in Lake LBJ.

The whole story here.

http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Naegleria_fowleri

 

[Hoomi]

Hey, that's NOTHING compared to the Country-Eating parasites they have in Washington DC!

 

[skipjen]

That is just gross

And Hoomi that is just funny!!

 

[mike_s]

Bizarre Tongue-Eating Parasite Discovered Off the Jersey Coast : TreeHugger

hmm...... i wouldn't suggest "peeing" in your wetsuit either! that thing might "swim up stream"!

 

[Jax]

eeewwwww.....

I agree!!! eeeeewwwwww

Hey, that's NOTHING compared to the Country-Eating parasites they have in Washington DC!

 

[pidgiepoo]

I always dive with my mouth shut...but I'm gonna have to reprogram myself not to EVER EVER pee in my wetsuit again.

 

[DennisS]

I always dive with my mouth shut...but I'm gonna have to reprogram myself not to EVER EVER pee in my wetsuit again.

Especially if you're diving in the Amazon

Damn Interesting • The Terrifying Toothpick Fish

 

[RYCO]

Tongue eating, ha, nothing compared to the brain eating ones we have in Texas.





The whole story here.

Naegleria fowleri - wikidoc

there was a young boy that died from that at out local dive lake, Lake Pleasent, a few years ago. sad stuff

Hey, that's NOTHING compared to the Country-Eating parasites they have in Washington DC!

hmm...... i wouldn't suggest "peeing" in your wetsuit either! that thing might "swim up stream"!

AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

 

[AbyssalPlains]

Do you usually dive with your mouth open? Parasites or not, I would reconsider that practice...