Welcome to the DeeperBlue.com Forums, the largest online community dedicated to Freediving, Scuba Diving and Spearfishing. To gain full access to the DeeperBlue.com Forums you must register for a free account. As a registered member you will be able to:
You can gain access to all this absolutely free when you register for an account, so sign up today!
what is it, where is it?
0:47Jelly Fish. Nasty little bastard... Can't you see it??? Should... Black and clear...
Yeah, I don't know the name of this one, but I would prefer to swim in circles with a Tiger Shark rather than touch this little bastard. Was diving naked. Could really have hurt me. Short dive in the video, because I just broke of previous dive when I met it...Ouch! So small and beautiful, yet so deadly and painful. Here in Aus we have the box jelly fish, you'd be dead in something like 3 mins from a heart attack
Yeah I saw it. CoolJelly Fish. Nasty little bastard... Can't you see it??? Should... Black and clear...
No idea. Was hoping some of you guys could tell me. First time I've seen it here (Tenerife, Canary Islands). It looked mean. Like a spider. Its treads were only about 1 meter long, but they were only like four of them and they were kind of shiny (not visible in the footage)... I've seen many jelly fish, but never one like this one. So compact and strong. I could feel this was a killer...Yeah man, lucky you saw it! Any idea what the species is?
No idea. Was hoping some of you guys could tell me. First time I've seen it here (Tenerife, Canary Islands). It looked mean. Like a spider. Its treads were only about 1 meter long, but they were only like four of them and they were kind of shiny (not visible in the footage)... I've seen many jelly fish, but never one like this one. So compact and strong. I could feel this was a killer...
I don't know if you get these but:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_jellyfish
Did the clear ones look like that?
If they did, good thing you didn't complete the dive.
Dive safe,
Rock Shooter
This one (the one I met) seem very much in control of itself. Almost like a fish. I guess that's what really alerted me. Never seen a Jelly fish like this one. It moved and looked like it was (is) the King of the ocean...Wikipedia quote:
'The box jellyfish actively hunts its prey (small fish), rather than drifting as do true jellyfish. They are capable of achieving speeds of up to 1.5 to 2 metres per second or about 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph).[8]'
Scary stuff!
Exactly!but who knows what will happen in the future with global heating and all...
Oh, keep on scaring me... I'll be worried tomorrow when I go out again... friend of mine here never goes without a fullbody wetsuit, but I like being "naked" on shorter dives (not spearfishing or going deep)View attachment 42681
You'd have some nice scarring and possibly be dead if it was the box jellyfish