The box jellyfish is one of the world.s deadliest creatures. With tentacles up to three metres long and venom that attacks the skin, the heart and the nervous system, swimmers that are unlucky enough to be stung often never make it back to the shore. Drowned after going into shock, or dead of heart failure.
With experience as a former teenage backpacker in the area, Mooneys Insurance Brokers managing director David Mansley was well aware of the dangers faced by those brave . or stupid . enough to venture into the water along the Northern Queensland coastline during stinging season, which was why alarm bells rang when the production team behind shark thriller The Reef planned to do just that.
.There.s no way they could have shot where they were proposing to shoot,. he says.
Thankfully, co-producer Tiare Tomaszewski had contacted the insurance broker in the very early stages of...
With experience as a former teenage backpacker in the area, Mooneys Insurance Brokers managing director David Mansley was well aware of the dangers faced by those brave . or stupid . enough to venture into the water along the Northern Queensland coastline during stinging season, which was why alarm bells rang when the production team behind shark thriller The Reef planned to do just that.
.There.s no way they could have shot where they were proposing to shoot,. he says.
Thankfully, co-producer Tiare Tomaszewski had contacted the insurance broker in the very early stages of...
- 3/20/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
The box jellyfish is one of the world.s deadliest creatures. With tentacles up to three metres long and venom that attacks the skin, the heart and the nervous system, swimmers that are unlucky enough to be stung often never make it back to the shore. Drowned after going into shock, or dead of heart failure. With experience as a former teenage backpacker in the area, Mooneys Insurance Brokers managing director David Mansley was well aware of the dangers faced by those brave . or stupid . enough to venture into the water along the Northern Queensland coastline during stinging season, which was why alarm bells rang when the production team behind shark thriller The Reef planned to do just that. .There.s no way they could have shot where they were proposing...
- 3/20/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
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