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10-04-2011, 07:30
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C.L.O.D
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Re: sea snake in the toilet?
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Originally Posted by Don1500
Please let me know the next time you start flipping thongs overboard.
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Why? You looking to book a ringside seat?
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12-05-2011, 20:38
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#47
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Boston, MA
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Re: sea snake in the toilet?
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Originally Posted by SaucySailoress
Why? You looking to book a ringside seat?
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Just lat and long. I might start collecting used thongs.
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12-05-2011, 20:58
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#48
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: on board, Australia
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Posts: 3,648
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet?
Unlikely to get through a marine toilet.
Sea snakes aren't very capable on land unlike land snakes and are generally slowmoving.
In water diving can grab them gently but firmly 3rd way from head to show your buddy. Handled hundreds and never an issue. Out of water just pick up and put back in the water.
Good snake handling
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12-05-2011, 21:09
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Punta De Mita
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet?
We're all afraid of snakes, but do any of us actually know anyone who died as a result of a snake bite? I know a lot of people but none of them have ever died from it. One of my uncles has been bitten by a rattlesnake different 3 times and never even went to the doctor. He's not the smart uncle. Come to think of it, I don't have a smart uncle.
My dog got bit by a rattlesnake a couple of years ago and she almost died but she's only 35 pounds. It seems that it takes $1600.00 to keep a 35 pound dog from dying from a rattlesnake bite.
It was worth it, she's a really good dog. A better dog than my uncles are uncles.
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12-05-2011, 21:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gig Harbor, WA
Boat: Prior boats: Transpac 49; DeFever 54
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet?
Only snake I found in my loo was my own (fortunately, but I boast!) Capt Phil
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13-05-2011, 13:58
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always in motion is the future
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
Posts: 19,058
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet
better check it before using it :-)
cheers,
Nick.
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14-05-2011, 09:02
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet?
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Originally Posted by sww914
We're all afraid of snakes, but do any of us actually know anyone who died as a result of a snake bite? ...
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I don't know any personally, but each year tens of thousands of people die from snake bites.
Since reporting is not mandatory in many regions of the world, snakebites often go unreported. Consequently, no accurate study has ever been conducted to determine the frequency of snakebites on the international level.
However, some estimates put the number at 5.4 million snakebites, 2.5 million envenomings, resulting in perhaps 125,000 deaths.
Others estimate 1.2 to 5.5 million snakebites, 421,000 to 1.8 million envenomings, and 20,000 to 94,000 deaths.
These represent only a very small proportion of the people that I don't know.
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14-05-2011, 11:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Florida
Boat: Gulfstar 50
Posts: 316
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet
This thread is starting to creep me out. I have to make sure sure my girlfriend does not see this one.
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14-05-2011, 18:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
Posts: 3,922
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet
Wish I hadn't seen it.
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27-05-2011, 16:01
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Wilmington, NC
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet
Commercial fishing we occasionally had them climb in the scuppers. Once called the Duke Marine lab and federal fisheries to inquire what type of snakes they were. Was politely told there are no offshore water snakes in this part of the Atlantic. Right...!
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27-05-2011, 16:07
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#56
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
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Re: Sea Snake in the Toilet
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Originally Posted by s/v Jedi
better check it before using it :-)
cheers,
Nick.
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nice........
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27-05-2011, 21:21
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#57
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,406
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Re: sea snake in the toilet?
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Originally Posted by Intentional Drifter
Yet another reason us mossbacks love it up here! (Oh, no, I don't really mean that. Seriously, it rains all the time. Cold, ucky. Logs and deadheads everywhere. Never any wind, except when there's far too much. The damned freighters will kill you, and they're never on 16.)
ID
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Use channel 13 for raising the commercial boats and ships. It is for bridge to bridge communications, much of it dealing with passing arrangements to avoid a collision. What is going on is the commercial boats are also checked in with and monitoring Vessel Traffic Service where applicable. So monitoring 16 means they would have to monitor a third channel and many choose not to monitor 16 or have it tuned out or turned down, even though they are supposed to be monitoring 16 by law.
This IS one creepy thread and I have never had a fear of snakes.
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