Jellyfish

[Zaixon]

now the big question is.... HOW LONG WILL THEY STAY???? lol it is making my diving so very difficult

 

[OBXDIVEGUY]

now the big question is.... HOW LONG WILL THEY STAY???? lol it is making my diving so very difficult

That's a great question! It happened last year too around this time, but not nearly as bad. I don't remember how long they were around.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

they were pretty thick in K. Largo on Tuesday, and yesterday at BHB they were all over the place, but they seemed to come in waves, sometimes really thick and other times nary a one.

 

[CJM]

The Moon Jellies are here for a month or so. Some days are worse than others but there's no telling what dive site will have more than others. You're pretty much going to run into them anywhere. Hit the water, drop quick, on the ascent, just play dodge ball..

 

[Aeropl]

Last weekend there were tons of what looked liked smaller moon jellies with extra long tentacles in Pepper Park but none of us actually got stung.

 

[fdarden]

Still many moon jellies about 15 feet deep in Pompano. We dove the Ancient Mariner and Turtle Ledge, and there were plenty of large, medium, and small moon jellies. I am not sure why, but these moon jellies really do not seem to sting me at all. I dive with pretty much a swim suit and a shirt this time of year, and the moons have not stung me. I first thought they could not sting, until everyone on the boat was getting hit by them, people were even saying they were getting stung through rash guards. I got stung by something around the reef at 50' or so, but that felt like a stinging nettle, it was not a moon. A lot of little sea insects around when that happened.

 

[Ace88]

On the 12th I was out of St Lucie Inlet and they were horrible too. From a mile to 5 miles out, there were clouds of them everywhere. We just streamlined our bodies on descent and didn't get stung too bad really. Once at the bottom we had about a 15ft buffer without any of them. Sting went away before we even surfaced

 

[JoeFL]

This morning, diving at LBTS we didn't see any in the water, just one washed up on the beach. We only did the first reef though, don't know what the situation was on second. I got a nasty sting there last saturday, I still have kind of a scab on the back of my neck from it...yeech. A first for me.

 

[inventor]

I was in NO suit and when I got back on the boat I had literally like 60 stings. I was the only one without a suit and got it the worst, but everybody on board was a victim as well.

On the 2nd dive at 50' they weren't again bad at depth but everywhere at the surface. Made the dives really uncomfortable

Now that's a diver!


Is this an annual thing? What's the cause, spawning, migration?

 

[txaggie08]

I took one in the leg pretty badly off the vandenberg in KW tuesday. Still have some welts from that. They weren't NEARLY as bad at dive marker 1


Thursday, Elbow reef had a few, but were avoidable. Mike's wasn't bad before sunset, but when we came up off the night dive, the swarm was VERY thick. I caught one on the face, as did the DM.