Good friend about lost his leg...from swimming in Lake Erie....Never heard of any bacteria like that growing up, I'd always heard swimming in the salt water actually helped heal a wound. We'd catch and cook fish on the beach and shrimp just past the breakers.
Only issue I recall was only harvesting oysters a couple months of the year and the occasional oil spill.
Where/when did all these rot your arm off bacteria and such come from? Is it just we were kids and got lucky?
Was in the ICU for several weeks....
Some "flesh eating bacteria"?
This would have been in the late '90's?