Worlds Best Job Winner Almost Killed On Job – Contest winner Ben Southall is recovering after his final week in “the world’s best job” nearly became his last week alive.
The 34-year-old Englishman, who beat thousands of other applicants to land a 6-month $150,000 job as caretaker of a Great Barrier Reef island, was stung by a tiny, but potentially lethal jellyfish while jet-skiing this week, the BBC reports.
Luckily, Southall received immediate medical treatment after the sting or he would have died.
“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.
“I’ve avoided being boxed by a kangaroo, nibbled by a shark and bitten by a spider or a snake—but then in my final few days on Hamilton Island I fell afoul of a miniscule little creature known as an Irukandji.”
The Irukandji jellyfish – which struck as he descended from a jet-ski – is virtually invisible to the naked eye and can be deadly – in 2002 two tourists died after being stung.
Southall’s progressive symptoms of fever, headache, lower back pain, chest tightness and high blood pressure led doctors to diagnose the sting and begin immediate treatment with antibiotics.
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