Next time you're splashing around in the sea on holiday, you might want to close your mouth
This stomach-churning photograph shows the types of microscopic creatures that are crawling around in just a drop of seawater, which has been magnified 25 times to reveal what's living in it.
From bacteria and worms, to fish eggs, crab larvae and diatoms, the image shows the plankton holidaymakers could be swallowing each time a splash of water ends up on their tongue.
Award-winning National Geographic photographer David Liitschwager captured the photo, revealing the less-than-obvious threats in the ocean.
The photo proves the taste of seawater isn't just salt - it's the multitude of critters.
On its website, National Geographic said of the photo: 'Under a magnifier, a splash of seawater teems with life.
'The planktonic soup includes bug-like copepods; long, glassy arrowworms; coiled filaments of cyanobacteria; rectangular algae called diatoms; fish eggs; and a big-eyed larval crab the size of a rice grain.'
Under the microscope: The drop of seawater has been magnified 25 times to reveal the stomach-churning contents - including worms and fish eggs
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Doesn't make me want to go into the sea for obvious reasons.
Oooppsss..Houston we have a problem.
Actually, that shows that the water is pretty healthy. At least there are no globs of poo...
The old saying is that the more microbes that can live in the water, the safer it is to drink.
I hear what your saying Dowser, just don't like the idea of the liquids I drink needing a diving board for the residents.
Funny!
Well, that's why you boil water... To get rid of any microbes, etc. Boiling sea water and distilling it is about the only way it can be made drinkable, anyway. But swimming? I subscribe to the old rule of "Never allow one drop of water to touch your face."
Needless to say, I can't swim.
Chowder time.
Or tar, or BP oil, radioactive waste, fracking 'by-products', prescription drugs, yada yada yada--- hell, that water probably wouldn't even burn (more than you can say for the tap water in certain areas)!!
C'mon, Larry... protein is where you find it...
Pretty much guaranteed, fish... keyboards (and cell phones) are way nastier than the average toilet bowl.
But neither come with smellcheck.