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Well, that makes a bit more sense - I thought it was odd that they said it was sea slugs, because they generally don't eat any flesh unless it is dead already.
by cyberferret 9y ago
Well, that makes a bit more sense - I thought it was odd that they said it was sea slugs, because they generally don't eat any flesh unless it is dead already. Sea lice look like they are not so fussy if you are still kicking around.
Listening to a friend of mine who works in the Sea Police here in the North of Australia - it sounds like if you ever needed to bump off anyone with little chance of getting caught, then throwing them off your boat in the Arafura Sea should do the trick.
Usually when people drown, their bodies tend to bloat and they tend to float until found by search parties, but in this particular sea, the sea slugs will usually bore holes in a dead body so that the gases escape, and the body sinks to the ocean bed. They almost never find anyone who has gone overboard accidentally or intentionally in these waters, according to him.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoThe first reports talked about "sea lice", which are quite different. The sea louse (or one type of it) is a parasite that famously eats the tongues of fish and "replace" the tongue by lodging themselves in the mouth of the fish. [1] They also had an "expert" speculating about jellyfish larvae, which are colloquially (but incorrectly) also called sea lice, but they are not capable of biting, only stinging. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
- robin_reala 9y agoHuh, I’ve always known a sealouse to be the aquatic equivalent to a woodlouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligia_oceanica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligia_oceanica . Looks like I was wrong, or at least I learned a local name.
- frenchy 9y agoThere's also the crustaceans known as sea lice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_louse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_louse
- Herodotus38 9y agoA small note because I keep seeing sea lice written, but the culprit was sea fleas, according to the article.