When vacationing, you may find yourself heading to popular swimming sites in natural waters such as in tropical waters, lakes, oceans, seas, rivers etc. to engage yourself in activities such as swimming, surfing, diving, snorkelling, spear fishing etc. Before embarking on such a mission, it is important for you to understand the risk factors that are associated with such sites especially from exposure to marine life for example exposure to flesh eating bacteria and brain eating bacteria. This is important to prevent that vacation trip that you were looking forward to from turning into a disaster. This booklet will highlight on sea snakes, eels, dangerous natural waters bacteria and amoeba etc. that you may encounter while swimming in natural waters including the management and/or treatment of injuries caused by the aforementioned creatures. It is important to note that the risk of being infected, poisoned, bitten, stung etc. by dangerous marine creatures is always there no matter how careful or cautious you may be. Unfortunately, this risk is always higher when you are careless and less watchful of your surroundings. While staying underwater, you will be able to avoid most problems and incidents when you only watch what you see, but do not touch.
Some of the marine creatures that are dangerous in natural waters include:
* The Beaked Sea Snake (Enhydrina schistosa)
* The Annulated Sea Snake (Hydrophis cyanocinctus)
* The Blue Ringed Sea Krait (Liticauda laticaudata) aka Malayan Krait
* The Yellow Lipped Sea Krait (Laticauda colubrina)
* The Yellow Bellied Sea Snake (Pelamis platurus) aka California Sea Snake
* The Olive Brown Sea Snake (Aipysurus laevis)
* Banded Sea Krait (Laticauda colubrina) aka Yellow Lipped Sea Krait
* Belcher's Sea Snake (Hydrophis Belcheri) aka Faint Banded Sea Snake
* Dubois Sea Snake (Aipysurus duboisii)
* Hardwicke's Sea Snake (Hydrophis hardwickii)
* Zweifel's Beaked Sea Snake (Enhydrina zweifeli)
* Ornate Reef Snake (Hydrophis Ornatus) etc.
Some of the dangerous amoeba, bacteria, virus etc. that are dangerous in natural waters include:
* Naegleria Fowleri Amoeba aka Brain Eating Amoeba
* Vibrio Vulnificus aka Flesh Eating Bacteria
Also featuring:
* Moray Eels
* Blue Ringed Octopus
