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The flesh-eaters were identified as lysianassid amphipods, a type of scavenging crustacean, commonly known as “sea fleas.”
The flesh-eaters were identified as lysianassid amphipods, a type of scavenging crustacean, commonly known as “sea fleas.”
Sam Kanizay, 16, spent Saturday evening unwinding at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton, Melbourne when he got the fright of his life. He didn't notice anything was wrong at first as the water was so cold - temperatures reached as low as three degrees Celsius (37°F) last week.
"When he got out, he described having sand on his legs, so he went back in the water," his father Jarrod Kanizay told the AAP.
"He went back to his shoes and what he found was blood on his legs... They ate through Sam's skin and made it bleed profusely."
Comment: So...the smartcards did it. Why would national meteorology trackers have smartcards in their temperature reader and then 'not know about it'. This is official weather data collected and tracked for the country, for the world...and it has a smartcard. That is a real headscratcher unless there was a manmade global warming parameter and a reason to round off, cut off, change, erase data that didn't meet the target, as in distortion to fit false facts.
See also: Study reports temperature adjustments account for 'nearly all of the warming' in climate data