(was i right to swim away quickly?)
2007-02-27 02:49:06 · 9 answers · asked by Boots Almighty 2 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
It was most probably a yellow-lipped sea krait, or Laticauda colubrina (sea snake) these are related to the Asian cobras and very venomous. You were very right to swim away, to make sure it was a sea krait go on yahoo images! x
p.s. All sea snakes are dangerous to humans, but very few of these bites cause any significant injury because the sea snake fangs are tiny, only 2-4 mm. They do contain neurotoxins, however, but most often cannot penetrate the wetsuit worn by a diver. Deaths that have occurred among fishermen who ran into their nests. Sea snakes keep their young on shore, and spend the rest of their lives in the sea looking for food, fish and eel. They are very shy and not aggressive by nature. x
2007-02-27 03:21:48 · answer #1 · answered by pink&fluffy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sea snakes of several different species belong to a group related to the cobras but are aquatic rather than land dwelling. They are only moderately large, rarely exceeding 2 m in length, often with peculiarly small heads for their body-size. The body is compressed as an adaptation for swimming and the snakes are so thoroughly aquatic that they are either clumsy or helpless when brought ashore. Only genus Laticauda has the typical broad ventral scales of snakes, and it is often considered the least advanced of the sea snakes. Nevertheless, similar to cetaceans, their lungs still require them to surface occasionally to breathe. Oxygen uptake through the skin has been demonstrated in sea snakes.
hope i helped
2007-02-27 02:56:23 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan$$$ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I'd been there - I'd have given the world to film a sea snake snorkelling!
2007-02-27 04:00:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A snake was snorkelling? I've never heard of that before!
2007-02-27 02:51:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was probably a banded sea snake(see links) and I agree it must have been a wierd site seeing a snake with a snorkel.
http://www.diveasia.com/reef-guide/chordates.htm
http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_hydrophiidae.html
http://www.siam-info.de/english/snakes_poisonous.html
2007-02-27 03:02:59 · answer #5 · answered by ragingmk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God they take anyone over there don't they, I mean its bad enough they get all our seedy men let alone snorkling sea snakes, bloody funny though!
2007-02-27 02:53:24 · answer #6 · answered by isleofskye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gary Glitter and YES you were right to swim away
2007-02-27 02:57:36 · answer #7 · answered by Gary Crant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! how did it stop the mask from falling off????
2007-02-27 02:52:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont believe you.
2007-02-27 02:51:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋