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乐极生悲 最幸福职业险些丧命(双语)

2010-01-05 14:04
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还记得那个世界最high的工作吗?去大堡礁旅游,把探险经历用博客记录下来,分享传播,就能在6个月里不仅免费旅游还能获得11.1w美元的报酬。

不过这个曾经最幸运的英国男人Ben Southall(就是应聘上大堡礁工作的人),最近在大堡礁游玩时被海蜇刺伤。他是在上周发现异常的,手臂和脚上有几处伤口,然后接下来便开始发烧、 头痛、胸闷等。医生认为他是被一种名为Irukandji 有毒海蜇刺伤了。不过幸好Ben 并无生命危险。

注:Irukandji 是一种有着剧毒的海蜇,该地曾在2002年又两名游客被这小东西弄死。

恢复后的Ben 开玩笑的说“我真应该穿上带刺的卡通服,在水里拍几张照,告诫游客们,这水里的厉害。”

(中文内容摘自煎蛋网)

"Best Job" winner stung by dangerous jellyfish

Trouble struck paradise this week when a British man who has the "Best Job in the World" as the caretaker of a tropical Australian island was stung by a potentially lethal jellyfish.

Ben Southall — who won a contest to blog for six months about life on Australia's Hamilton Island to promote tourism — wrote Tuesday that he was lucky to have survived his brush with the extremely venomous Irukandji jellyfish.

Earlier this week, Southall was getting off a Jet Ski in the ocean when he felt "a small bee-like sting" on his arm. When he later noticed a tingling in his hands and feet, island staff took Southall immediately to the doctor.

Progressive symptoms of fever, headache, lower back pain, chest tightness and high blood pressure led the doctor to diagnose that Southall had been stung by an Irukandji jellyfish. He was given pain medication and slept off the venom's effects overnight.

"I thought I'd done particularly well at avoiding any contact with any of the dangerous critters that consider this part of the world their home," Southall wrote. "This was not what I'd wanted at all and had caught me little off guard to say the least — I'm supposed to be relaxing in my last few days on Hamilton Island."

Australia is well-known for its myriad deadly creatures, but the peanut-sized Irukandji remains rather mysterious. It is virtually impossible to see and is tiny enough to pass through nets meant to keep jellyfish away from popular swimming spots.

Its sting can lead to symptoms including shooting pains in the muscles and chest, vomiting, restlessness and anxiety. Some symptoms can last for more than a week, and the syndrome can occasionally lead to a rapid rise in blood pressure and heart failure.

In 2002, two tourists were killed in separate incidents after being stung by the tiny creatures off northeast Australia — the first recorded Irukandji fatalities.

"My slight knock was enough to tell me that it's not something to be messed around with," Southall wrote of the jellyfish. "I really should have been wearing a full stinger suit, as it recommended at all beaches here at this time of year."

He said he was feeling well and was enjoying his last week on the job.

The 34-year-old former charity worker bested nearly 35,000 applicants from around the world for the dream assignment that started in July to swim, explore and relax on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef while writing a blog to promote the area and earning a salary of 150,000 Australian dollars ($120,000).

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