Chironex fleckeri, commonly known as the Australian box jelly, and nicknamed the sea wasp, is a species of extremely venomous box jellyfish found in coastal waters from northern Australia and New Guinea to Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam.
He didn’t go swimming in the NT though, he was swimming in Victoria, the south eastern part of the country, so box jellies didn’t get him. He probably just got caught in a rip and drowned. People forget how dangerous swimming in the ocean can be, even on a calm day.
d’you know, it makes sense why my filipino coworker had never been in the sea…
He didn’t go swimming in the NT though, he was swimming in Victoria, the south eastern part of the country, so box jellies didn’t get him. He probably just got caught in a rip and drowned. People forget how dangerous swimming in the ocean can be, even on a calm day.