February 4, 2014
As if you were "dipped in hot burning oil and your body is in flames."
Diana Nyad's description of getting stung by a box jellyfish. Video at the link, which goes to The New Yorker, which doesn't warn you that the word "fuck" is yelled many times.
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Diana Nyad is pretty much of a badass, but she isn't the one screaming fuck. She pretty much just says "intense, intense, intense , intense" and "fire, fire, fire, fire".
"As if you were "dipped in hot burning oil and your body is in flames."
Enough about the abuse allegations against Woody Allen.
Jellyfish stings are incredibly painful. You just want to crawl up in a ball and die. Box jellyfish are on the painful end of the jellyfish scale. That's for one sting. Now get stung over and over.
I think her description is pretty accurate. 99.99999999% of people would be out of the water after the first or second sting. Her feat was amazing on many levels.
"Oh shit" by contrast is for fatal mistakes, particularly in aviation.
I have been stung by a man o war jellyfish. The stingers wrapped around my ankle. My muscles cramped, the sting was intense. It caused blisters as if burned and I had the scars for quite a few years. I would have been out of that water in seconds. I would have levitated out of the water! I don't know how she did it.
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