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Father's frantic shore dash after potentially deadly encounter


A fisherman had to make a desperate dash to shore after stepping on one of the world’s most venomous creatures.

On Tuesday morning Brett Pages-Oliver from Point Peron, south of Perth, feared his time was up.

He had stepped on a blue-ringed octopus while throwing seaweed out of his boat.

The 52-year-old was pulling up cray pots off Point Peron when the potentially deadly encounter occurred.

A WA fisherman thought his time was up when he stepped on a blue ringed octopus. Source: File/AAP
A WA fisherman thought his time was up when he stepped on a blue ringed octopus. Source: File/AAP
Mr Pages-Oliver had been fishing off Point Peron (pictured), when he stepped on the potentially deadly creature. Source: 7 News
Mr Pages-Oliver had been fishing off Point Peron (pictured), when he stepped on the potentially deadly creature. Source: 7 News

Wasting no time getting help, he made a mad dash for shore and called for paramedics, who arrived within 15 minutes.

Incredibly the father, who was taken to nearby Rockingham Hospital, had escaped serious harm.

Despite stepping on the deadly octopus, it hadn’t actually bitten him.

Just last week another Perth man was hospitalised in a similar incident.

Mitchell Ogg, 28, was pulling up a cray pot while on a boat near Garden Island with his older brother on Friday when he felt the bite of a blue-ringed octopus.

Mitchell Ogg, 28, was pulling up a cray pot while on a boat near Garden Island when he felt the bite of a blue-ringed octopus. Source: 7News
Mitchell Ogg, 28, was pulling up a cray pot while on a boat near Garden Island when he felt the bite of a blue-ringed octopus. Source: 7News

“When you think you’ve got six minutes to live the panic kicks in,” Mr Ogg said.

Luckily, Mr Ogg made it to nearby Garden Island and was treated by Navy paramedics before being taken to hospital.

The blue ringed octopus has enough poison to kill 26 people.