What thell is this??

[greendiver]

I went out yesterday and I saw this strange type of jellyfish or who knows what it is.....
Who knows what it's called??
I thought it might be a colony of plankton, but then it seems to have a mouth..
Have alook...
I dind`t catch anything but this made my day!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE85lStuXxc&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Alien underwater??[/ame]

 

[island_sands]

we get this here too, strings of eggs

did it sting?

 

[podge]

Looks a bit like a string of DNA from Godzilla

 

[greendiver]

hehehe....you haven`t been in the med for a while, it might have stung but with a 7mm and a vest underneath.....
Eggs...from what?

we get this here too, strings of eggs

did it sting?

 

[Lazuli]

There is such a thing as a string jellyfish that can sting. Not sure if this is one but it looks similar.

 

[island_sands]

hehehe....you haven`t been in the med for a while, it might have stung but with a 7mm and a vest underneath.....
Eggs...from what?

jellyfish eggs?

 

[WTTriggerfish]

Perhaps its some kind of salp? Those look kind of like that.

 

[agbiv]

It stings???? Then it's got to be some sort of jellyfish. No sting - I vote for floating salp colony called a blastozooid.

 

[greendiver]

I found it!!!:friday...I think...

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salp]Salp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

It is called a salp!

 

[island_sands]

I found it!!!:friday...I think...

Salp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is called a salp!

oh well done!!!!!! Nice one there, I will knowly use that word in dive briefings

 

[titan]

~I think it's a deep water form of jellyfish did it have bioluminnesnce?it had a big mouth like a tiny whale shark mouth?

 

[Fondueset]

Russian submersible

 

[titan]

the evil empire strikes again xD