00:00You have one hour before giving your last breath.
00:03Even if there is just a second, you were in perfect health and nothing threatened your life.
00:09Good news, your life can still be saved.
00:13Effective antivenins are available, but if you choose to ignore the sting, you will pass the weapon to the left at once.
00:19This camouflage artist is the deadliest fish in the world.
00:23In total, there are about 1,200 venomous fish on our planet.
00:27But the stone fish is the most formidable.
00:30It has 13 dorsal fins capable of injecting an extremely toxic venom.
00:35Remember when I mentioned the camouflage skills?
00:38This is the main twist of this story.
00:40You see, unlike sharks or any other predatory fish, the stone fish will not attack you.
00:47It is not a predator, it is a prey.
00:49So to stay safe, it must protect itself in one way or another.
00:54Thus, it has developed a super ability to turn into stone, in a way.
00:59So, if you ever get stung by this one, it is not because it is aggressive.
01:04It is because of an unfortunate sequence of events.
01:07Most people have experienced this unpleasant experience simply because they accidentally walked on a stone fish while pretending to be a stone or a coral on the bottom.
01:17As you may have guessed, something that can easily pretend to be a stone is not exactly cute.
01:23These guys seem to have no scales.
01:26Their skin is covered with many veils and they are multicolored.
01:29You can see shades of gray, brown and orange, red and yellow.
01:35Sometimes they can even be covered with algae.
01:38They occupy a fairly vast territory in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
01:42Which means they are everywhere.
01:44From Mauritius to Queensland in Australia.
01:47Well, we are going to need a warning here.
01:50This fact is very sensitive.
01:52But if you want to live long and in good health, I suggest you not to ignore it.
01:57It is a fly.
01:58Quite harmless and certainly much less powerful than you.
02:02A human being.
02:03Yet, there are chances that this nice companion can destroy your body.
02:07Here is how the story unfolds.
02:09Some time ago, a lady from the United Kingdom decided to go on a great trip to South America.
02:14It seems exotic and not common at all.
02:17Rochelle, who was then 27 years old, went to Peru with her girlfriend.
02:21On her return to her country of origin, she began to have severe headaches.
02:26She did not understand what was going on.
02:28Then, half of her face felt a vivid discomfort.
02:31And suddenly, a strange noise in her head began to haunt her.
02:35One day, she went to bed to wake up the next morning.
02:38And discover that her ear was soaked with a strange liquid.
02:41No blood, no water.
02:43Just one substance.
02:45She rushed to the hospital, where the doctors said she had an ear infection.
02:50But by examining more closely, the doctors discovered a hole in her auditory tract.
02:55It was about 12 mm, but it was crawling with larvae.
02:58Rochelle was lucky.
03:00The emergency brain scanner showed no major damage.
03:03The tympanum, the blood vessels, the facial nerves, everything was fine.
03:07The big question was, how to get the clots out of poor Rochelle's ear?
03:12We all understand that the inside of the ears is quite narrow.
03:15And even small tweezers were not very useful.
03:18To save the lady, the doctors decided to use olive oil.
03:22They expected the clots to drown.
03:24And indeed, two clots drowned.
03:27Yet, there were eight others left.
03:29The most frightening thing was that the laboratory analysis had shown that a new world-oriented fly,
03:34the official name of the fly that had disturbed Rochelle's health,
03:38had laid eggs in the auditory tract where the clots were crawling.
03:43But how the hell could this have happened?
03:46While she was on vacation in Peru, she crossed a swarm of flies.
03:50One of them entered her ear.
03:52She chased it, but she had plenty of time to lay eggs inside.
03:56The doctors helped Rochelle to expel the unwanted guests.
04:01Fortunately, there will be no long-term consequences.
04:04But we all understand that it could have been much worse.
04:08I don't need to tell you that cave exploration is extremely dangerous, right?
04:13In June 1990, a man named Gary Lutz took his sons, Buddy and Tim,
04:20for an adventure of speleology at the New Trout Cave in West Virginia.
04:26He had brought food, water and spare headlamps.
04:30But here's where he made a mistake.
04:32He left the bag behind him when they arrived at The Maze,
04:36a narrow passage with teethed rocks.
04:39They thought they would catch pay and supplies before their headlamp was discharged.
04:44Bad choice.
04:45The boys' headlamps went out shortly after,
04:48and their attempt to return on their feet made them get lost.
04:52Then, Lutz's headlamp also discharged,
04:55plunging them into total darkness.
04:57For five horrible days, they had no food, no water, no light.
05:02They began to cough up the dust of the cave and hallucinate because of dehydration.
05:07Fortunately, someone noticed that their car had been parked for days and called the authorities.
05:13The rescue team pointed out that the family had broken the cardinal rules of speleology.
05:18Always bring three sources of light each,
05:20and always inform someone of your destination and the time of your return.
05:26Some tourists never come back from vacation.
05:29They become statistics,
05:31and some people sometimes escape the accuracy of the searcher without even realizing it.
05:36Here's just one example.
05:38A tourist in Australia filmed himself manipulating an extremely dangerous creature
05:43and downloaded the video on Reddit.
05:45In the video, the tourist holds a blue ring octopus,
05:49with a mandarin inscription on the screen saying,
05:51A beautiful octopus.
05:53After filming, they shake the octopus out of their hands,
05:56and happily put it back in the water before they can steal it.
05:59The fact is that the blue ring octopus is one of the most dangerous marine animals in the world.
06:04It contains enough venom to kill 26 adults.
06:07The tourist didn't know how dangerous it was.
06:10People on Reddit went crazy.
06:12One person commented,
06:13Do they even know how lucky they are to be alive,
06:16after doing something so incredibly stupid?
06:21A woman from New Hampshire suffered serious burns
06:23after getting off the trail in Yellowstone National Park
06:27and falling into boiling water near the Old Faithful geyser.
06:31The sexagenarian, accompanied by her husband and their dog,
06:34had left the safety of the promenade
06:36and walked off the trail designated near the Mallard Lake trail
06:40When she crossed a thin crack above the water,
06:43she ended up with burns to the 2nd and 3rd degree on the bottom of her leg.
06:47Fortunately, her husband and dog were fine,
06:49but the lady was urgently transported to the hospital for treatment.
06:53Park officials remind everyone to stay on the promenades and trails
06:57in the hydrothermal zones and to be extremely careful.
07:01The ground there is fragile and thin,
07:03with boiling water just below the surface.
07:07Company animals are allowed in certain Yellowstone zones,
07:11but they are not allowed on promenades, hiking trails,
07:15in the hinterland or in the thermal zones.
07:18The hot springs of Yellowstone have injured
07:21and caused the premature loss of human lives
07:23more than any other natural feature.
07:26At least 22 people have died from injuries
07:29caused by the hot springs since 1890.
07:32Hey, what's buzzing?
07:34Oh, it's you!
07:37Jumping from a bridge in a river full of crocodiles,
07:39what could go wrong?
07:41It turns out, a lot of things.
07:43On New Year's Eve,
07:45Australian tourist Erin Langworthy
07:48decided to try the elastic jump of the bridge
07:50that connects Zimbabwe and Zambia,
07:52right next to the Victoria Falls.
07:55It's a 110-meter fall of pure adrenaline.
07:58But for Langworthy, things went wrong
08:01when her elastic jump rope broke.
08:04She plunged it into the Zambian river,
08:06famous for sheltering many crocodiles.
08:09Erin herself says it was a miracle that she survived.
08:12When she fell, she lost consciousness under the impact
08:15and felt like she was whipped all over the place.
08:18But the cold water brought her back to consciousness.
08:21It is easy to judge tourists who take risks like this,
08:25but the elastic jump is an activity
08:27practiced in this place for more than a decade,
08:30attracting more than 50,000 tourists each year
08:33and bringing income to Zimbabwe and Zambia.
08:36Authorities say the elastic jump is safe.
08:40The probability of an incident like Erin's
08:43is 1 in 500,000 jumps.
08:45So, I think Erin should buy a lottery ticket.
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