[cheebacheeba]

Bluebottle, small jellyfish, medium sized crab (dunno what kind...they all look the same at the beaches here, they only get different further into the oceans and rivers here) I've stepped on an urchin, it was spiky but it didn't sting.
I've swam among stingrays and sharks, I mean...not great whites or anything, but generally the smaller variety will not attack you unless you fuck with them.

My reaction to all stings/bites in this case was, knowing that I wasn't likely to be dying (you learn how to evaluate potential threat here) was more or less the under the breath "ffffffffuck", and to get out of the water and do what I could to fix it, I think I swung my hand and threw the crab in the water, as a child, I think the bluebottle was the one that made me cry...it was stuck between my arm and ribs...Although my understanding is if you're allergic to those, you wanna get outta the water and get help fast, apparently you can go into (?sp?) anaphylactic shock and your airways become obstructed.

That's all I can tell you.