Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Sea Urchins
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 07:17:26 -0800
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At 6:38 PM -0800 11/5/03, Joe Leung wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:38 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] The Decisive Moment is gone
>
>
>>  >Henning
>>  >
>>  suddenly slipped. I had a choice of stepping on the bag of sea
>>  urchins, or diving into the water with my camera. Naturally, I chose
>>  to step on the sea urchins. About a hundred spines were driven into
>>  my foot. I spent and hour on the boat pulling out spines, and my wife
>>  spent another 2 or more hours after I got home, and only about 20
>>  broken off pieces were left in my foot to get infected.
>>
>
>Henning,
>
>I am from the sub-tropics where sea urchins are abundant. Accidents like
>this happens a lot. There is a much better way to get them out. You just put
>some oil, any kind of oil or Vaseline, on the injured skin where the spins
>are. They will come out automatically in a few minutes. The theory is
>simple: The spins are tapered. Your muscle has a tendency to squeeze them
>out but due to friction, it won't come out immediately. May be until the
>wounds are inflamed and body fluids will help them 'glide' out. With the
>help of oil, the cylindrical spins will come out automatically in no time.
>It works every time.

Joe,

That might have worked for all the ones sticking out, but quite a few 
pieces had broken off in my foot almost immediately, and required 
digging. In any case, thanks for the tip, although I now approach 
them with greater care unless in a sushi restaurant.

Also, some species have a lot rougher spines than others. I would 
imagine that your suggestion would work a lot better with some 
species than others.

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