This Is Why They Can’t Swim on Beaches in Australia

I live in Aus. I go swimming regularly

Portuguese manowar don't freaking BITE, they sting, Steve.

I only put this on for a laugh. I live in Queensland and this video makes Australia look 1000x more dangerous than what it really is. It's easy, don't mess around with our wildlife and the wildlife will leave you alone. It should be common sense by now.

A "Beach" in Australia called Darwin that has Jellyfish, crocodiles, sharks, and no protection measures. Yeah, that beach was named appropriately for any swimmers that go there.

Gee I’m a 75 year old woman, I should be dead going by this Video 😂😂😂

What a load of bullshit. We have 35,000 beaches and except for some in the far north (WHERE THERE ARE HARDLY ANY PEOPLE COMPARED WITH THE REST OF THE COUNTRY) THEY ARE ALL FINE TO SWIM IN.

At a resort in northern Australia once, the water was so tempting that I wanted to jump right in. I had heard that jellyfish in Australia could be nasty, so I asked someone working there if getting stung would hurt a lot. He said matter-of-factly, "Oh, it can kill you." I said , "Oh, but that probably does not happen very often, right?" He said calmly, "Oh, no, somebody died here, last year." Crocodiles in Guatemala, I was willing to risk, when I saw locals swimming, but I passed on the tempting beach in Australia. I did though snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef, which was a lifetime memory.

My boy got stung by a blue bottle on his fifth birthday at Bondi. It hurt him but he recovered in 25 minutes and we got ice-cream. We were back in the water the next morning when they had cleared.

You have a list of "unprovoked shark attacks"-- what exactly is a" provoked" shark attack??

Portuguese man o’ war are not true “jellyfish” they are a colony of animals called “siphonophores.”

So what I gathered from this, is stay the heck off cable beach 😂😂

Notes for Australia: 1) Don't go swimming - tiny invisible deadly stinging jellyfish, venomous sea snakes, sharks, rip currents, crocodiles (only sometimes), blue-bottle venomous jellyfish and Portuguese Man of War. 2) Don't walk on the beach, any of the above (except the rip currents) can have washed up on the beach. 3) Don't swim in the rivers, streams or ponds they are full of crocs. Don't walk along the edges of same since crocs can charge out of the water really fast. 4) Don't go walking in the bush or tall grass. 3 of the most venomous snakes in the world live there. 5) Don't walk around in your back yard. There are several kinds of very venomous spiders, some of then really big, that hide in burrows or trees. You won't see them but they sure as heck will see you. Conclusion: Stay in your house after plugging all cracks in flooring, walls, heating vents and plumbing to keep the snakes out. Install double screening on all windows and doors to keep out the thousands of disease-carrying mosquitos and the spiders. Sounds like a wildly exciting vacation.

Algorithm had you tucked away my old friendz

My father told me at a very young age that if your caught in a rip currant to never try swimming against it no matter how good of a swimmer you are, always swim to the side. For our beach swim to the left side if looking at the beach. This will give you a better chance of getting out of the rip tide. Problems arise if it has pulled you under and your not sure what is what direction but if you don't panic you can feel the water movement and then try swimming sideways again. But honestly i don't believe i could not panic if fully under. I actually did get caught in one but a small one above the water atleast. Was still scary im standing on a sand bar and so fast the sandbar disappeared from under my feet and i went from being only 25-30 feet from the shore to far enough that everyone looked like little toy soldier size of something. And i was exhausted just swimming out of the rip tide and even more so swimming the rest of the way back... my father had cancer. A stomach tube and other things like in his neck and wasn't supposed to be swimming because water could get into it but he did some anyway to help encourage me that last little bit cause he could see i was struggling and he figured if i couldn't go anymore he would be there with me already atleast. Luckily he was fine and it didn't hurt him either. He had not swam in years at that point and never did go past knee deep again either. He had gotten his trache taken out at this point tho... not long after it had to be put back in so yeah alot harder to swim with a large hole in your neck and stomach. I Mean its actually more about infection but still

Like belt conveyors, rips are gift to surfers. Catch a wave in, catch a rip out.

You guys do an amazing job and I watch all your videos! I think the reminder isn't interruptive and not minded. You guy haven't done any paid advertising (yet) so definitely keep the reminder. As for the content lately.... I love it! Interesting side of wild and domestic animal life not commonly known to most. Also like the other content you post like about the buoyancy of ships and capsizing. Any true science nerd would love this channel! 3 thumbs up

We can't swim on the beaches because the beach is not where the water is. We swim in the water without a problem.

Train the crocodiles to return for a fresh chicken every day. Great plan.

All this just goes to show that Adelaide beaches, in my home state of South Australia, are the worlds finest beaches.😊

We have nets, on Cassowary Coast. Only occasional cassowary bird on beaches.

Everything has to be deadly in Australia 🇦🇺 😬

Australia forgot to disable Hardcore

The thing with tying the chicken to the beach, it really doesn't matter if it was taken by a saltie or something else. Whatever took it, is probably still hanging around and most likely still hungry because we just gave it a chicken hors d'oeuvre.

Ya, this is not for me. Most of the worlds most deadly snakes and spiders, now jelly fish and we all watched Crocodile Dundee.

I’ve been to Australia twice. And I had no problems swimming at Sydney’s beaches (Manly, Bondi, and Shelly being my favorites). Tasmania is also incredible, altough i never tried to swim there. I also snorked at the great reef barrier in Queensland, altough in Cairns I only went to the public pool near the beach (due to the crocodile warning plates on the beach…😂). Wonderfull place. The only downside is the 36 hours trip to get there from my country (a 14/15h hours flight, then a 2/3 hours connection, following another 13/14h flight… thank God for the showers at my connection at Dubai’s airport). Planning to go next years again, this time to Perth, Darwin or The Gold Coast (haven’t decided yet). Australians really won the nationality lottery!!

Maybe Blue-Ring Octopi will be featured in Part II.

Yeah we call them manowars blue bottles been stung by them many a time, just put vinegar, yeah they hurt a bit, just pull them off and just go back swimming. I have had red-back to funnel webs plenty of others but more huntsman etc in our house even bed, we also on other home have so many snakes, eastern browns, red bellies, tiger snakes, death adders and some pythons but only had a brown in the house there, we moved him on…. Yeah it’s all good though keep your eyes open, been treed by a razorback out shooting…. Never really worry about the sharks but had a run in with bull shark in sydney harbour but my bad as went in midnight rescuing my dog, yeah we use rips to get out the back to surf… but great place to live the only thing l don’t like is the salt water croc# as they’ll grab you out off your boat…. But just don’t lean over and keep an eye out if you’re pulling in a crab pot…. On the beaches l,ve come across sea snakes and blue ring octopus my mates kid picked up but luckily not bitten as they’ll kill you…. But seriously it’s not all that bad..

Jellyfish on shore: onshore winds; especially with Bluebottles (what you called Portuguese Manowars). As for your claim that they're deadly for a grown adult to fall into a pile of them - what a crock... when I was 7 years old I was flipped from a short-break wave onto my back landing on the collected masses of Bluebottles - head to toe almost my entire back of my body was covered in their stinging tendrils; stung like hell, but only thing that died was an afternoon's enjoyment. If you're going to prattle on about the perils of Box Jellyfish, it would help viewers if you showed images of the actual peril - help keep clueless tourists alive. Snake on cold wet sand... "looks tired"... it's a reptile. It'll be fine once it warms up. Likely washed out to sea from heavy rainfall. Most snakes are chill until you mess with them. Respect their boundaries and live. The east coast of Australia, especially mid-northern NSW, sees a large volume of migrating sharks. The only time there's an issue with them is from the ones that have gone up a fresh water river (to purge parasites, such as barnacles etc) and are returning hungry and pissed off - and an unlucky human happens to be swimming nearby. Sharks are more likely to attack at night; so with that area being much warmer for a pleasant night swim easily contributes to the likelihood of being chomped on! People don't surf at Fraser Island because the surf sucks (compared to so many easier to access options). The worst "predators" there are the mosquitos! The other things you mentioned are chill or opportunistic, but generally are zero threat if you leave them alone. Reading the surf was something we learnt as kids - being able to instantly tell rip locations and their feeding currents is a very healthy life lesson. Common sense works better when it's common. That Crock you showed in the flat surf near the shore was but an adolescent - the adults are around 20ft long and they bark like dogs/dingoes too! Crocs prefer rivers, and at the very least are easier to detect in the surf (which they prefer to avoid). Something you missed - at the beaches between Ballina and Coffs Harbour that are by natural bush land (eg Red Rock), you can find kangaroos body-surfing in the shore break. Seeming most of your "Aussie Dangers" involved irritating something to qualify, then this encounter would be more potentially dangerous than most of those you've mentioned!

My sister still lives there now at 69 and never been eaten or bitten ... but of course she knows like all Aussies what is there.

Oh yes you would die if you fell into a pit full of man o war! I’ve been stung on the beach as a kid in Florida. The man o war were blown up onto the beach by high winds (that move them like a sailboat), then unsupervised by my parents I poked and prodded them until I got stung, worst pain ever!

At least you can see them,,, try the Irocanji (sp?)

You forgot to mention the Drop Bears.

Build pools near sea and sealife save

Good ole blue bottles, you’re not a fully fledged Aussie until you’ve been tangled in the blue bottles on the beach.😂 if you want full 100% protection from jellyfish stings of any kind it’s……drumroll…….it’s woman’s stockings! Yes stockings covering your skin will 100% protect you from any jellyfish even the mighty box jellyfish can’t hurt you if your suited up head to toe in nylon stockings. but your on your own against crocodiles, stone fish, blue ring octopus, funnel web/white tip/red back spiders and great white sharks. Just dial 000 for emergency services that have access to antidote/anti venom. Keep mobile phone on you at all times in Australia, it’s your lifeline and most of Australia has coverage.

Beach is just not dangerous enough ...hmmm .... add some poison spiders!!!

Australia: Survival mode

That was a very smooth request for the like button. Thank you

I live on the sunshine coast and had no idea i should be dead.... thanks to this well researched and balanced video i'm never going outside again. What actually kills most people at beaches here are rips which can be totally avoided by swimming at life-guard patrolled beaches.

I can reassure you that it’s safe to swim here in Australia. There are signs posted to warn swimmers of any dangers regarding jelly fish and any other dangerous sea creatures. There are sea plans that fly over multiple times a day during the swimming seasons to warn swimmers of potential dangers( sharks) popular swimming beaches to have life guards to aid those swimmers who get in trouble. Just like any beach in any country any shore there will be dangerous sea creatures to consider! If you choose to swim in areas that are unsafe then that is your choice!

8:51 THIS IS THE GREEK ISLAND OF CRETE!... SAFE WATERS THERE!... FEEL FREE TO VISIT AND ENJOY!...

You don't go swimming in the Brisbane River, it is home to 3,000 Bull Sharks.

Please can you make a video about thailands animals

What about Irukandji jellyfish? Worse than or just as bad as these others but these guys are TINY and kill

Lol you missed the Stone fish at bundy?

This is actually fairly accurate! Just use common sense, follow the warning signs thru the seasons, and enjoy the best beaches the world has to offer!

What happens when a saltwater croc gets stung by a Portuguese Man of War jellyfish. Does the croc's heart seize up?

I thought those little stinging jellyfish were blue bottles, & portugese man of war are huge. Ive been stung horrifically by multiple blue bottles as a kid & it was excruciating for hours.

I only hit the like button ONLY because you reminded me at the end hahaha it worked , happy 4/20

they say that the different jelly fish come from the cargo ships that pass by regularly along the coast of Australia and they get them from the bilge water in the ships when they clean them out.

Interesting , Thank You. Good to know and remember

Bluebottle jellyfish often swarm the beaches. Individually they are not deadly, but they pack quite a sting. I know because, when I was a young boy, a bluebottle jellyfish wrapped itself around my big toe. I was still going through puberty at the time, but by the time the venom travelled up my leg I soon knew I had some dangly bits down below when the venom hit the groin. The pain eventually passed but this kind of incident can be much worse if you swim right into a swarm and become wrapped in hundreds of tentacle stingers - then it can be life-threatening.

Omg .. 🤣🤣🤣🤣is this for real … ?I was born in Australia 🇦🇺 and I’m still alive .. thank you Jesus .😂😂😂😂

You forgot the blue-ringed octopus, the stonefish and the irukandji jellyfish.

I am only here to browse through the Aussie comments which are way more entertaining and informative than this video 😂😂

Australia sounds like fun😎

2:43 oh my word there is ACTUALLY a City of Townsville. Where the PPG?

Lol, Crocodiles don't attack humans. Well at least not locals anyway.

I saw jelly fish washed up on beach up in Townsville

Some USA beaches put up nets to keep sharks or jellyfish out of a swimming area.

you forgot the drop bears and owmydoodle birds absolutely deadly ???

You forgot the Irukandji jellyfish, tiny transparent jellyfish that is also incredibly painful although not quite as painful as the box jellyfish. The jellyfish is about as big as the top joint of a man’s thumb but has a venom 1000 times deadlier than a tarantulas and 100 times deadlier than a king cobras.

Dont let a Port Jackson Shark get you ahahahaha

what about Irukandji , blue ring octopus , stone fish , scorpion fish and the list keeps going . and i still go swimming

2:51 excuse me, why are the power puff girls not helping!?

There is a tiny box jellyfish which can sneak through the netting and sting people. Add to that, box jellyfish have rudimentary vision!

Do jellyfish sting each other when they’re piled up on a beach?

People still swim at Florida's beaches even though the water is horribly polluted with fertiliser runoff from corporate farms. Antibiotic resistant flesh eating bacteria thrives on the fertiliser. Many swim and only a few die, but it is a gruesome death.

i have never seen something like that

I have been stung by Portuguese man of war several times. It’s painful, and the nematocysts continued to cause itching and inflammation on the sting sites for over a week. I wouldn’t recommend it, but it was not NEARLY as bad as I was led to believe.

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Because the government outlawed it and banned anything involving The word "beach" online

Lets see about the largest river in the world dried up..... how does it rain around other places now .... ?

Friend of mine has been shot in the calf but closer to his ankle (didn't know him then) AND gotten stung by a man o war (cause his dumbass was tryin to pick it up and the ten tickles... ha ha... got him in the belly). Didn't witness it myself but saw him and the results that night. He said he'd rather get shot than deal with the pain of that sting again ever.

And the cassowary!

So, basically, Australia should be referred to as "Skull Island".

That's why a lot of people, especially Life Savers, wear panty hose on the legs as the stings cannot get through the mesh.

no wonder why Australians visit other countries with the same good weather to... ''relax and enjoy the sun and the sea''...

I have said this a million times... I AM NEVER GOING TO AUSTRALIA!!!!

Salt water crocodiles and sharks too!

Im an aussie and I find this to be absolute BS. Blue bottles sting the most, man-o-war are fatal. 99% of beaches are easily swimmable.

I'mma rate your first obligatory beg of this video a 3, due to the length and request for extra engagement, haha. Honestly, with how loud and obnoxious some folk's obligatory begging sections are, I really ought to give y'all a 1 for all of your asks so far. (Lookin at you, Simon Wistler, JackSepticEye, and Oompaville)

What's next..... Godzilla shows up

I wouldn't even swim on my English coasts let alone Australia..

There nothing to worry about in EGYPTIAN beaches

Nature is scary

Yeah, wotever, keep a bottle of white vinegar in your car and ice in your eski, enjoy the beach!

Daleks of the oceans!

Damn, Australia. You scary.

Can last for over an hour or even longer? Longer than what you just established over an hour.

So long as you don't live in Queensland, you can swim anywhere almost any time. Bluebottles appear on beaches maybe a handful of times in a summer, and you just don't go swimming there when they do. Not a big deal.

We can go swimming here. Wtf. Not once i seen or been hurt at a beach n been goin 40yrs since birth.

Pure Michigan. Sea sized fresh water, nothing dangerous. Oh, snapping turtles - rarely. Mild rip currents. Move. Or visit.

a bigger risk to take overall

I already KNOW THAT!

Australians aren't afraid of anything, it is a simple fact that they love every aspect of the waters surrounding Australia. They are educated about the risks that certain animals pose, and take precautions. Aussies approach everything with their irrepressible good humor, I'm sure that they'll laugh their asses off about this video. Most are more afraid of visiting America (for good reasons) than they are of enjoying their magnificent beaches...no more of your feed for me!

There is a reason Australia was used as a prison.

When did people start swimming on the dam beach

Is there anything in Australia that isn't trying to kill us?

Aussies swim all the time. In fact, there's quite a few professional surfers from Australia. And, as it turns out, they actually learned how to surf IN Australia. It's Australia, mate. Everything is dangerous. The land is, at least, as dangerous as the ocean, probably more so. That may be why tourists don't swim in Australia, but most Australians swim at the beaches.

I'm informed of the opinion that fresh-water neuters the pneumatacist-stings of jellyfish; every other attempt fails, merely scraping-off the stringy-tentacles; inevitably every movement to remove tentacles triggers further invenomation: unless the whole tentacle's payload is triggered & spent, attempts at removing them will unleash springing fresh pneumaticist stings.