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

[Brian Sharpe]

Especially if you're diving in the Amazon

Damn Interesting • The Terrifying Toothpick Fish

Gee thanks.....that made my day

 

[pidgiepoo]

Especially if you're diving in the Amazon

Damn Interesting • The Terrifying Toothpick Fish

I just want you to know that because of your article on the Terrfying Toothpick Fish, I have sworn to abstain from peeing in any body of water. I also have NO desire to dive in the Amazon to totally eliminate any possible contact with those monsterous 'lil fish.

 

[pidgiepoo]

I just got home from shopping and my husband had a toothpick hanging out his mouth after eating pizza. I didn't know if I should laugh or scream "OMG-those horrible lil monsters have made it to Ohio already... they must have migrated up the Mississippi".
I will never be able to look at a toothpick again without thinking about your Terrible Toothpicks,DennisS. You have unknowingly provided a source of laughter for me for years to come...God Bless you !

 

[divermatt]

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

This explains Texans

 

[DandyDon]

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

Yep, every summer - along with a few fishermen dying to flesh eating bacteria acquired from open wounds in coastal waters. http://www.kfdm.com/articles/flesh-33329-along-warns.html "Five cases and two deaths have occurred in 2009. Last year, 17 cases and seven deaths were reported." If you have a scrape that looks worse the next day, go to ER; you do not have time for an appointment.

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

Only riks is the SA candirú.

Especially if you're diving in the Amazon

Damn Interesting • The Terrifying Toothpick Fish

Yeah, that one. I understand the natives are much more afraid of it than piranhas, which are really more scavengers than attackers.

 

[LIVES4SHARKS]

Actually I have seen fish with these creatures on them in a lot of different places I have dived. It definitely takes you by surprise and maybe that is why I always dive in a wetsuit or skin and always wear a hood. You never know what creepies are out there to get ya.

On a side note, I work in Cat Scan and since the show "Monsters inside us" has been airing on Discovery Health, we are seeing alot of people coming in claiming that they have the same symptoms as the epsiode they saw. So, needless to say, I have been doing alot of head scans since these people think their headaches are coming from some worms growing in their brains! LOL! Yknow, sometimes my job is better than TV.

Carolyn:shark2:

 

[pidgiepoo]

. So, needless to say, I have been doing alot of head scans since these people think their headaches are coming from some worms growing in their brains!

Carolyn:shark2:

I'm curious to know if the Cat Scan shows they even have a brain??

 

[Garth]

how much money would it take to eat a live isopod seen in the photo? a million?

i wonder if you could tell it was in there?

 

[pidgiepoo]

how much money would it take to eat a live isopod seen in the photo? a million?

Have you considered trying out for Survivor?????

 

[Kellykins]

One word...

EW!