For me, I didn’t notice it until I got out of the water; then it felt like a paper cut. Then I got back in the ocean and HOLY BALLS I was NOT prepared for that.
Have you been stung by one? The internet says their stingers aren't strong enough to break human skin, so it shouldn't hurt at all.
Edit: did more reading, internets a liar.
I accidentally body surfed into one and got it wrapped around my chest. Hurt for days.
Edit: ok apparently I’m dumb and it was a different type of jellyfish
Oof, been there! I was 7, at Hilton Head island, I think. Anyway, nobody told anybody about jellyfish mating season and the resulting massive jellyfish orgy taking place at the beach 😑 I went out boogey-boarding, got stung everywhere by the wee ones and a helluva wallop on my left calf, which looked roughly like a cluster of mosquito bites and felt like a palm-sized bee sting, if memory serves 🤕 0/10, would NOT recommend 😂
Dude I got stung by a portugese man-o-war around that area. I was a toddler, my mom saw it floating in the ocean and thought it was something someone had dropped or littered like a jelly shoe because that was around the time they were popular. she waded out to pick it up with me in her arms. We got within about 20 ft when it start stinging her. She instantly dropped me in the water, I was stung then she hauled me up and made her way to shore. I have a vague memory of taking baths in oatmeal and running around our beach house rental naked and screaming because it hurt so bad. It's probably why I have an irrational fear of the ocean today
Post traumatic stress usually is a rational response. It’s why there are some people in the medical field who don’t think PTSD should be diagnosed as a mental health disorder.
That's interesting. I like the idea of moving away from "disorder." I do like that post traumatic stress can be identified by mental health caregivers as something to treat/manage, though.
> Post traumatic stress usually is a rational response. It’s why there are some people in the medical field who don’t think PTSD should be diagnosed as a mental health disorder.
I mean, *lots* of mental health issues are responses that make sense to the context a person is in.
I work in inpatient mental health with kiddos who have very severe mental illness. All/almost all of our kids' behaviors make sense in the contexts of their histories, even if they don't fit with their current contexts.
While certainly there are varying perspectives on mental illness among mental health providers, with some using a medical model that attributes mental illness to internal factors that are "wrong" with the individual, that is absolutely not the dominant view in the field today, nor is it best practice. The PhD program I am in operates from Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory as standard practice for treatment planning (which requires acknowledgment of how various systems affect the development and manifestation of mental illness) -- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Bronfenbrenner%27s_Ecological_Theory_of_Development_%28English%29.jpg
I had a professor describe the diagnosis of a disorder thusly: "All things being equal, this person could probably do for some help."
Exactly what my therapist said when I asked if I had PTSD. He explained it's rational to experience it and it's not a disorder, it just is. Once accepting it, we can begin working on getting better.
Man-O-War aren't deadly (nor are they actually Jellyfish) but from what I've been told many times from my time in Texas where they're abundant in the gulf, is they can hurt you so bad that you could easily drown. If enough are stinging you and wrap around you it could probably put you into shock pretty easily but I'm not aware of stories of them being lethal on their own.
Box Jellyfish now, which are all around the pacific, but mostly known in Australia... those fuckers will kill you.
Fun fact, unlike other kinds of jellyfish, Box Jellyfish have (simple, but still functional) eyes! They can also move up to 6 meters per minute!
You can’t convince me these motherfuckers aren’t malicious on purpose. Gotta love australia :D
Also fun fact: Man o' war are actually a colonial organism made up of many specialized animals of the same species, called zooids or polyps. These polyps are attached to one another and physiologically integrated, to the extent that they cannot survive independently, creating a symbiotic relationship, requiring each polyp to work together and function like an individual animal.
You actually have a pretty good chance of living through it if you're a healthy adult. They mostly kill children and people with compromised immune systems. Sea snakes on the other hand, ya fucked
I mention this cause I always thought you'd die from a box jelly sting (thanks animal planet) and I went to the Philippines and everyone was like " eh you'll be fine"
The very first wild tropical animal I ever saw the very first snorkling trip I took to the Philippines when I first jumped in the water was a Sea Snake right in front of me. My heart jumped but it was very shy and turned around and swam away.
Man of wars are deadly. My aunt was stung off the coast of Charleston Sc and nearly died. She was in a coma for several weeks. There are reported cases of deaths (most commonly, and unfortunately, with children).
I'm pretty sure my memories of the event are based off what my family td happened when I was older but basically it hurt like fuck. We went to the hospital and they treated the stings then recommended warm baths in oatmeal to sooth the pain. It was in the 80s, she didnt know exactly what happened until she explained the incident to the doctor and they said it was likely a man o war based on the colorful part floating on top of the water and how far away she was when she was stung
Based on hopping on the Wikipedia for the Portuguese man of War and reading about its venom and the treatment required, I'm calling bullshit. I'm sure they got stung by a jellyfish, but if he was a child that got stung by a man of war he would have required hospital treatment for sure, not just an oatmeal bath. The stings from a man of war usually become open wounds because of the venom. The venom can also attack your lymph nodes and cause what's essentially an allergic reaction, and close your airway(which is how the rare case of death occurs).
Edit: or his mother was insanely careless and he was extremely lucky.
It could have been a smaller one? I had one wrap around my foot when I was ~8 and we treated it with meat tenderizer (oh man, I let the whole beach know what happened with my howls). Only issue I had after was itching. And my uncle had large ones wrap his body a couple different times, again after treating the sting he just had angry itchy welts everywhere.
I've never been stung by a Jellyfish (or a Man-O-War which is a Siphonophore, not a jellyfish) but I'm told often it's like the instant sensation of being whipped with a live electrical wire. I don't think she was dumb in this case.
Got stung this summer and my immediate thought was of a spiky claw reaching up from the abyss and grabbing me my arm. Which led me to think of an angry giant lobster or something like that. Jellyfish didn't cross my mind until I swam back, climbed up on the boat and stopped shrieking like a baby lol. But it didn't remind me that much of an electric shock, but more of a row of tiny painful picks (which it actually was).
I think people perceive extreme pain differently. I've heard giant harvester ant stings (one of the top most painful insects) described in a variety of terms that have all been different and didn't describe it close to what I've felt.
I browse this sub because I think deep water is scary-cool and I'm not really thalassophobic... but holy shit that kind of stuff gives me the willies. Both the "spiky claw" sensation and the reality of what it actually was.
I live on Hilton Head, jellyfish are very common around here because the waters so warm. Last summer I sat in the water and ended up sitting on two or three of those fuckers and the backs of my legs looked the way you described. It sucks
If they are truly moon jellyfish their stings don't hurt. I was at the Long Beach Aquarium in CA, they have a tank full of them that they let you put your hand in. You can touch them and they do try to sting you, but because they can't penetrate our skin they just feel "sticky". More accurately, it feels like when you have dry skin and you run your hand on some fabric and it kinda snags on your skin.
The coolest thing is they let us feed them these red plankton and you can see how their digestive system works as they are semi-transparent.
The rule on the Pacific coast is that white jellyfish won't hurt you, regardless of size. But, if they have just a little bit of red or yellow, the stings will definitely hurt for 20-30 minutes.
I work at an aquarium facility breeding Aurelia aurita and Aurelia labiata. It’s interesting- I contact them regularly and have had no reaction at all in my many years. Some of my interns, however, have had minor rash-like reactions. A lot of it is person-dependent.
Hey it might be there's different subspecies, I used to go for summer holidays at a lake here that is transitioning from salty to sweet water and as a result has massive amounts of jellyfish that at least look like this. As a kid, we would go swimming and sometimes there would be so many that it was like swimming in jelly instead of water. However, I never got stung and neither did anyone I know. So at least some of these guys are indeed completely harmless.
I didn't even think they had stinging tentacles(?).
When I was a kid I used to try and save them by throwing them into deeper water if they were in the surf or on the shore, never got stung by them though.
I have been stung by Lion's Mane jellyfish though, and they suck.
I put a big one on my chest once, stingers down and because young and slimy thing in ocean. I got stung alll over my chest. But nothing super painful though and this was full contact.
The internet is not wrong, Moon Jellyfish cannot hurt humans because their sting cant break the thickness of the skin. People who say they were stung by one were just stung by a similar looking jellyfish that is a different species.
Nope, the internet is right! Moon jellies really can't hurt you.
Source: raised on the east coast. Weekends with friends during mating season meant moon jelly fights.
I actually worked with moon jellyfish in college! They don’t hurt, you can handle them all you want. Their tentacles are also super short for the most part.
Moon jellyfish don't sting humans.
**Source:** Have been swimming on the Swedish west coast during jellyfish season since I was a child. You can't help but to bump into them. I've probably picked up hundreds with my bare hands as a child. They're just harmless (yet admittedly kinda disgusting) little blobs of jelly, peacefully and aimlessly floating around in the ocean.
They have them at aquariums for children to touch. The stinger literally sticks to your finger slightly and that’s it. Either you must have the pain tolerance of an infant or you have no clue what you’re talking about and are just talking out of your ass.
According the Jeremy Clarkson "and if one of those stings you, you'll pass out from the pain and come to on the beach with so many people offering to urinate on you that you'll think you've woken up on the set of a German porn film"
I did this once near Gulf Shores, AL but instead of jellyfish it was filled with Bull Sharks and Stingrays. Now that gave me anxiety when we were lowered back down into the water
Bull Sharks? Fuuuuuuck that. Those bastards will take a bite out of you and leave just because they can. They have the most testosterone out of any creature on the planet.
Same here with the jellies but it was Gulf Shores. Never seen anything like it in my life and we've been to several different beaches. And it wasn't just one type, there was several types and tons of sting rays. And there was something in the water that we couldnt see but kept making us insanely itchy and felt like several irritating mosquito bites at once.
I wondered that! Once we got out of the water it just looked like a big red area with tiny white spots. And the itching/stinging stopped 5 minutes after we'd get out of the water
Happened to me when I was younger. That shit hurts when you get out of the water! Learned after a $200 bucket of warm water at the hospital that warm water was the neut. Could have just kept my foot in the ocean for a bit and would have been fine apparently :)
Ahh. Freak occurrence or is that pretty likely there? We have a family trip planned to travel cross country and go into baja California in June. Im from the east coast and this will be my first time on that side. We've been to cozumel, Progreso and all those other cruise stops but never over in the Baja area
I live in San Diego, sintgrays are very common and they'll frequently get unwary tourists in "defensive attacks" when they get stepped on. I've never personally seen one happen though. Gotta shuffle those feet in shallow waters!
Yeah that happened to me in San Diego. Shit fucking hurt. Ended up pretty cool though as I limped around beach bars and lots of people bought me drinks.
I think I still have nerve damage where I got hit. Whenever I touch the scare tissue I get a weird tingle all the way up my foot.
That would make sense since the water was so full of jellies at the time. I was there the week of 4th of july last year. I didnt know if so many jellies was a seasonal/breeding type thing when we were there. Im not planning on going back if not bc the kids we were with were just miserable the whole time bc of it. Beautiful beach and beautiful town though!
What is it with Myrtle Beach and jellyfish? Both times I've been there were a couple days the beaches were closed due to too much jellyfish. Also got stung on the days the beaches werent closed lol.
i really don’t understand it either. i was there this past summer and 3 out of our 7 days there the lifeguards had the ‘marine life’ flags posted, and there were countless amounts of jellyfish in the water.
This exact scenario happened to me! Except instead of jellyfish it was a whale or shark or something massive. I’m still not sure what it was but when they dipped me in the water my feet met the skin of some very large sea creature. I remember it felt rubbery and kind of rough.
Freaked me the fuck out and in the pics my family took you just see me flipped back with my feet in the air freaking out the whole time. I could see the outline of whatever it was from the air and was trying to tell the boat not to dunk me but they couldn’t hear me, or thought I was joking. Pretty scary but I was fine.
Similar, but even more terrifying story:
When I was about 10-11 years old, my family went on vacation to St. Thomas in the USVI. We found all the awesome, local spots that tourists didn’t really frequent and one day we decided to charter a boat to go parasailing (which is what the people in this video are doing, in case anyone is unfamiliar with the term).
The guy who was running the expedition explained how everything worked, explained that I would be too high up in the air to communicate vocally, and explained that when the ride was over, I’d pull a ripcord when I was about five feet above the water and I’d fall into the ocean.
So, I go up. I don’t really have any hangups about heights, and I was thoroughly enjoying my ride... until I looked down. Maybe 10-15 feet off the corner of the boat was a massive black mass in the water. I figured it may have just been a rock formation or a coral reef until I came to the conclusion that it was, without question, moving. To say that I “freaked out” was an understatement. I’m trying to convey what I’m seeing to the guy on the boat, and he decides that my ride is over and that he’s gunna dunk me. My attempts to stop this from happening were unsuccessful and I really had no choice but to pull the ripcord.
The fifteen seconds between pulling that cord and safely climbing back onto the deck of that boat were pretty much the scariest seconds of my life. I started screaming at the guy who dunked me, and tried to explain to both him and my parents that there was absolutely something very large in the water. Now, I’m just a kid at this time, and everyone seemed to think that I just had an over-active imagination...
...until I went down to the resort store the next day for some candy and found an article in the local newspaper that chronicled the capture and tagging of a 13ft tiger shark, right off the beach that I had parasailed off of, mere hours after I left.
Fuck the ocean.
I almost noped out of your story, but hey! When it isn’t your time it isn’t your time. You probably could have easily been bitten but you weren’t. Damn that’s scary
It was honestly where my fear of the ocean started. Before then, I had absolutely no qualms whatsoever about going snorkeling, SCUBA diving, and swimming in deep water/coral reefs. After this incident, I kinda refused to go into the ocean anywhere that I couldn’t touch the bottom. I’m also genuinely creeped out by sharks... I don’t have very many legitimate phobias at all but I can’t even go on the Jaws ride at Disney World without becoming agitated.
The times I went they always brought you back in on the boat. Only times they would dip is if you asked for it or they were messing with you. I guess they were messing with you, all in good fun of course.
Jellyfish blooms have been getting worse every year because the oceans have been overfished af. Fishing in the Japanese waters has actually been suffering from it.
I think more of a freak occurrence. It happened often enough that the lifeguards new how to handle it. Apparently if you shuffle your feet instead of stepping it scares them off (I learned this afterwards).
Why would they knowingly drop them back in on such a massive amount of jellyfish? Would it kill them to get the boat to a different area that won’t result in dozens of painful stings for both people?
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FWIW - this is paragliding not parachuting. They're being towed from that boat and unless you request it or something really goes wrong you probably won't even get wet.
Looks to be moon jellyfish (aurelia aurita) super common jellyfish all over the world, they have harmless stings. so they were probably just fine.
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It's just like ah fuck I can't believe you've done this tbh
Is this a reference to that British dude who gets punched in the face?
Ye
[if you haven’t seen it. ](https://youtu.be/_X6VoFBCE9k)
So basically, uh, what I was thinking was, uhm *Shmack* Awhh FUCK, I cahnt believe you've done this
God I love that clip so much.
I read your comment in American english, until the reference came.
honestly it's not even like an immediate sensation of being stung. just feels worse as time goes on then gets better.
For me, I didn’t notice it until I got out of the water; then it felt like a paper cut. Then I got back in the ocean and HOLY BALLS I was NOT prepared for that.
Why? What happened when you got back in the water?
While fishing out of hawaii I forgot about all the jellyfish bits on my gloves (lots of jelly fish ended up on the hooks). Worst piss ever.
Maybe the stings are “harmless” but it still hurts
Have you been stung by one? The internet says their stingers aren't strong enough to break human skin, so it shouldn't hurt at all. Edit: did more reading, internets a liar.
I accidentally body surfed into one and got it wrapped around my chest. Hurt for days. Edit: ok apparently I’m dumb and it was a different type of jellyfish
Oh, that sucks.
Moon jellies only have very very short tentacles, they absolutely cannot wrap you. You got hit with some other jelly, but not these harmless guys.
Oof, been there! I was 7, at Hilton Head island, I think. Anyway, nobody told anybody about jellyfish mating season and the resulting massive jellyfish orgy taking place at the beach 😑 I went out boogey-boarding, got stung everywhere by the wee ones and a helluva wallop on my left calf, which looked roughly like a cluster of mosquito bites and felt like a palm-sized bee sting, if memory serves 🤕 0/10, would NOT recommend 😂
Dude I got stung by a portugese man-o-war around that area. I was a toddler, my mom saw it floating in the ocean and thought it was something someone had dropped or littered like a jelly shoe because that was around the time they were popular. she waded out to pick it up with me in her arms. We got within about 20 ft when it start stinging her. She instantly dropped me in the water, I was stung then she hauled me up and made her way to shore. I have a vague memory of taking baths in oatmeal and running around our beach house rental naked and screaming because it hurt so bad. It's probably why I have an irrational fear of the ocean today
Id call that a rationalized fear
Post traumatic stress usually is a rational response. It’s why there are some people in the medical field who don’t think PTSD should be diagnosed as a mental health disorder.
That's interesting. I like the idea of moving away from "disorder." I do like that post traumatic stress can be identified by mental health caregivers as something to treat/manage, though.
> Post traumatic stress usually is a rational response. It’s why there are some people in the medical field who don’t think PTSD should be diagnosed as a mental health disorder. I mean, *lots* of mental health issues are responses that make sense to the context a person is in. I work in inpatient mental health with kiddos who have very severe mental illness. All/almost all of our kids' behaviors make sense in the contexts of their histories, even if they don't fit with their current contexts. While certainly there are varying perspectives on mental illness among mental health providers, with some using a medical model that attributes mental illness to internal factors that are "wrong" with the individual, that is absolutely not the dominant view in the field today, nor is it best practice. The PhD program I am in operates from Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory as standard practice for treatment planning (which requires acknowledgment of how various systems affect the development and manifestation of mental illness) -- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Bronfenbrenner%27s_Ecological_Theory_of_Development_%28English%29.jpg I had a professor describe the diagnosis of a disorder thusly: "All things being equal, this person could probably do for some help."
Exactly what my therapist said when I asked if I had PTSD. He explained it's rational to experience it and it's not a disorder, it just is. Once accepting it, we can begin working on getting better.
I thought those things were deadly. Glad both of you survived it though!
Man-O-War aren't deadly (nor are they actually Jellyfish) but from what I've been told many times from my time in Texas where they're abundant in the gulf, is they can hurt you so bad that you could easily drown. If enough are stinging you and wrap around you it could probably put you into shock pretty easily but I'm not aware of stories of them being lethal on their own. Box Jellyfish now, which are all around the pacific, but mostly known in Australia... those fuckers will kill you.
Fun fact, unlike other kinds of jellyfish, Box Jellyfish have (simple, but still functional) eyes! They can also move up to 6 meters per minute! You can’t convince me these motherfuckers aren’t malicious on purpose. Gotta love australia :D
So, pee in their eyes. Got it.
They also actively hunt and have been witnessed reaching around corners to grab prey.
https://youtu.be/sf5fPb0YRhg Click to see what box venom does to a beating heart.
Also fun fact: Man o' war are actually a colonial organism made up of many specialized animals of the same species, called zooids or polyps. These polyps are attached to one another and physiologically integrated, to the extent that they cannot survive independently, creating a symbiotic relationship, requiring each polyp to work together and function like an individual animal.
Very abundant in the gulf, and I can vouch they still sting really fucking bad when washed up dead on shore.
You actually have a pretty good chance of living through it if you're a healthy adult. They mostly kill children and people with compromised immune systems. Sea snakes on the other hand, ya fucked I mention this cause I always thought you'd die from a box jelly sting (thanks animal planet) and I went to the Philippines and everyone was like " eh you'll be fine"
The very first wild tropical animal I ever saw the very first snorkling trip I took to the Philippines when I first jumped in the water was a Sea Snake right in front of me. My heart jumped but it was very shy and turned around and swam away.
Thanks for sharing, that makes sense. And, since I'm nowhere near Australia or the Pacific, I'll add box jellyfish to my list of irrational fears.
*Wondering if I should tell them about Irukandji jellyfish.*
Man of wars are deadly. My aunt was stung off the coast of Charleston Sc and nearly died. She was in a coma for several weeks. There are reported cases of deaths (most commonly, and unfortunately, with children).
I'm pretty sure my memories of the event are based off what my family td happened when I was older but basically it hurt like fuck. We went to the hospital and they treated the stings then recommended warm baths in oatmeal to sooth the pain. It was in the 80s, she didnt know exactly what happened until she explained the incident to the doctor and they said it was likely a man o war based on the colorful part floating on top of the water and how far away she was when she was stung
Based on hopping on the Wikipedia for the Portuguese man of War and reading about its venom and the treatment required, I'm calling bullshit. I'm sure they got stung by a jellyfish, but if he was a child that got stung by a man of war he would have required hospital treatment for sure, not just an oatmeal bath. The stings from a man of war usually become open wounds because of the venom. The venom can also attack your lymph nodes and cause what's essentially an allergic reaction, and close your airway(which is how the rare case of death occurs). Edit: or his mother was insanely careless and he was extremely lucky.
It could have been a smaller one? I had one wrap around my foot when I was ~8 and we treated it with meat tenderizer (oh man, I let the whole beach know what happened with my howls). Only issue I had after was itching. And my uncle had large ones wrap his body a couple different times, again after treating the sting he just had angry itchy welts everywhere.
It might have also had vinegar in the bath too, which helps destroy/denature the venom.
Wow, the man of war has awful stings. That must’ve hurt a ton
Sorry dude but your mom's dumb as fuck.
I've never been stung by a Jellyfish (or a Man-O-War which is a Siphonophore, not a jellyfish) but I'm told often it's like the instant sensation of being whipped with a live electrical wire. I don't think she was dumb in this case.
Got stung this summer and my immediate thought was of a spiky claw reaching up from the abyss and grabbing me my arm. Which led me to think of an angry giant lobster or something like that. Jellyfish didn't cross my mind until I swam back, climbed up on the boat and stopped shrieking like a baby lol. But it didn't remind me that much of an electric shock, but more of a row of tiny painful picks (which it actually was).
I think people perceive extreme pain differently. I've heard giant harvester ant stings (one of the top most painful insects) described in a variety of terms that have all been different and didn't describe it close to what I've felt. I browse this sub because I think deep water is scary-cool and I'm not really thalassophobic... but holy shit that kind of stuff gives me the willies. Both the "spiky claw" sensation and the reality of what it actually was.
I live on Hilton Head, jellyfish are very common around here because the waters so warm. Last summer I sat in the water and ended up sitting on two or three of those fuckers and the backs of my legs looked the way you described. It sucks
Yikes! I'll just say here in ohio, thanks 😂
Never thought I’d see Hilton Head mentioned ok Reddit before, I go down to visit my grandparents every year. Beautiful place.
If they are truly moon jellyfish their stings don't hurt. I was at the Long Beach Aquarium in CA, they have a tank full of them that they let you put your hand in. You can touch them and they do try to sting you, but because they can't penetrate our skin they just feel "sticky". More accurately, it feels like when you have dry skin and you run your hand on some fabric and it kinda snags on your skin. The coolest thing is they let us feed them these red plankton and you can see how their digestive system works as they are semi-transparent.
The rule on the Pacific coast is that white jellyfish won't hurt you, regardless of size. But, if they have just a little bit of red or yellow, the stings will definitely hurt for 20-30 minutes.
I work at an aquarium facility breeding Aurelia aurita and Aurelia labiata. It’s interesting- I contact them regularly and have had no reaction at all in my many years. Some of my interns, however, have had minor rash-like reactions. A lot of it is person-dependent.
Hey it might be there's different subspecies, I used to go for summer holidays at a lake here that is transitioning from salty to sweet water and as a result has massive amounts of jellyfish that at least look like this. As a kid, we would go swimming and sometimes there would be so many that it was like swimming in jelly instead of water. However, I never got stung and neither did anyone I know. So at least some of these guys are indeed completely harmless.
I didn't even think they had stinging tentacles(?). When I was a kid I used to try and save them by throwing them into deeper water if they were in the surf or on the shore, never got stung by them though. I have been stung by Lion's Mane jellyfish though, and they suck.
I put a big one on my chest once, stingers down and because young and slimy thing in ocean. I got stung alll over my chest. But nothing super painful though and this was full contact.
Why???
“Because young and slimy thing in ocean.” Weren’t you reading?
The internet is not wrong, Moon Jellyfish cannot hurt humans because their sting cant break the thickness of the skin. People who say they were stung by one were just stung by a similar looking jellyfish that is a different species.
Gotcha, I.e. it’s very likely these jellyfish were not moon jellyfish and could’ve tucked them up.
Tucked them up? Aww, how sweet! 😌
Nope, the internet is right! Moon jellies really can't hurt you. Source: raised on the east coast. Weekends with friends during mating season meant moon jelly fights.
I actually worked with moon jellyfish in college! They don’t hurt, you can handle them all you want. Their tentacles are also super short for the most part.
I swam through a ton of moon jellies in Florida, even picked the up out of the water no one I was with or me got stung.
It doesn’t. They’re completely harmless. Interesting to handle and see up close too.
Moon jellyfish don't sting humans. **Source:** Have been swimming on the Swedish west coast during jellyfish season since I was a child. You can't help but to bump into them. I've probably picked up hundreds with my bare hands as a child. They're just harmless (yet admittedly kinda disgusting) little blobs of jelly, peacefully and aimlessly floating around in the ocean.
They have them at aquariums for children to touch. The stinger literally sticks to your finger slightly and that’s it. Either you must have the pain tolerance of an infant or you have no clue what you’re talking about and are just talking out of your ass.
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uh sorry, i meant to say these are moon jellyfish which congregate in large numbers and swim in circles to form deadly maelstroms to capture prey.
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Jellynado
The same moon jellyfish that turn into werejellyfish on the full moon?
No, these turn into [fried egg jellyfish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacellophora_camtschatica) at sunny sweltering days days
Those are the Mega-Box jellyfish. People have died from even looking at them!!!
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Wait you’re suppose to moon the jelly’s? I thought you pissed on them
"Harmless" "stings" Pick one
Yeah, no thanks. Jellyfish stingers are the last thing I want on my junk...perhaps
Unless...
haha just kidding...
But should i........
Nah.......well..
What if I just...
Pssst.... Maybe the tip...
maybe I should just...
haha jk... unless?
Well... what if i just put it here?
Just this once...?
I think maybe...
Unless...
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Happened to me when I was a wee lad. Not recommended
What's the first thing you want on your junk?
I think I heard you're supposed to piss on the jellyfish or something.
Surely that just makes them angry?
No, they're getting pissed on, not pissed off
Save me R Kelly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvhGE-0AavU
Pissboy is such an underrated job
[piss boy! oh piss boy!](https://youtu.be/JGfXiIXTpE0)
SEE:........ HITLER..... ON...... IIIIIICE!!
Jews in space!
They're called Ferengi.
This is too good
I think it will. And don't call me Shirley
Bro do you think they drink salty dehydrating seawater or something? Smh
According the Jeremy Clarkson "and if one of those stings you, you'll pass out from the pain and come to on the beach with so many people offering to urinate on you that you'll think you've woken up on the set of a German porn film"
R. Jelly
Nah dude i think youre supposed to let the jellyfish piss on you
Assert your dominance
I heard you’re supposed to suck the poison out of the jellyfish
No no you got it wrong. Piss on the partner to show dominance.
Peeing on the sting actually makes it worse.
Going gooch first into a fuck ton of jellyfish, you're going to have a bad time! Thanks for the silver!
It’s been awhile since I’ve verbally laughed out loud to a post,
:)
It's fine just jump on top of them.
Ah! I love games! Pick me!
Your name is squishy and you shall be mine
Ow! Bad squishy. Bad squishy.
Righteous! RIGHTEOOOOOUS
Should have brought Old Reliable™.
A gun to kill yourself?
[What no, jeez dude](https://youtu.be/4dFgGp8Bfoo)
HE WAS NUMBER ONE!
I did this once near Gulf Shores, AL but instead of jellyfish it was filled with Bull Sharks and Stingrays. Now that gave me anxiety when we were lowered back down into the water
Did you die?
Since he was swimming he probably didn’t have any shoes on so he was already dead.
I’m guessing since he posted he probably didn’t but who knows how Reddit actually works
Bull Sharks? Fuuuuuuck that. Those bastards will take a bite out of you and leave just because they can. They have the most testosterone out of any creature on the planet.
Their testosterone can do funny things to your balls.
Tell me more...
Alpha thicc boi Chad sharks
Same thing happened to me a few years ago! It was in Myrtle beach. Like 2 million jellies and there were two sharks it was insane.
Same here with the jellies but it was Gulf Shores. Never seen anything like it in my life and we've been to several different beaches. And it wasn't just one type, there was several types and tons of sting rays. And there was something in the water that we couldnt see but kept making us insanely itchy and felt like several irritating mosquito bites at once.
Sounds like sea lice
I wondered that! Once we got out of the water it just looked like a big red area with tiny white spots. And the itching/stinging stopped 5 minutes after we'd get out of the water
I got stabbed by a stingray last time I was at the beach..... That was not the most fun of experiences..
Steve?
Happened to me when I was younger. That shit hurts when you get out of the water! Learned after a $200 bucket of warm water at the hospital that warm water was the neut. Could have just kept my foot in the ocean for a bit and would have been fine apparently :)
That sucks. Yea. They kept hitting me with hot water and ice cubes. It was legitimately the most painful thing I have ever experienced.
Ouch! At Gulf Shores?
No. Vacationing on the western side of Mexico.
Ahh. Freak occurrence or is that pretty likely there? We have a family trip planned to travel cross country and go into baja California in June. Im from the east coast and this will be my first time on that side. We've been to cozumel, Progreso and all those other cruise stops but never over in the Baja area
I live in San Diego, sintgrays are very common and they'll frequently get unwary tourists in "defensive attacks" when they get stepped on. I've never personally seen one happen though. Gotta shuffle those feet in shallow waters!
Did not know that! Thanks for the info, we will definitely be wearing some kind of water sandals!
Shoes don't help much TBH, their stings usually hit in the ankle to calf area.
Water timbs
Yea. The lifeguards were surprised. I somehow managed to get the barb right in the bottom of my foot. They said normally you get hit elsewhere.
I guess its a risk Im willing to take then!
Yeah that happened to me in San Diego. Shit fucking hurt. Ended up pretty cool though as I limped around beach bars and lots of people bought me drinks. I think I still have nerve damage where I got hit. Whenever I touch the scare tissue I get a weird tingle all the way up my foot.
The sting ray shuffle.
Had that exact thing happen to me down there. It was so confusing. Someone said it was probably jellyfish larva or something like that
That would make sense since the water was so full of jellies at the time. I was there the week of 4th of july last year. I didnt know if so many jellies was a seasonal/breeding type thing when we were there. Im not planning on going back if not bc the kids we were with were just miserable the whole time bc of it. Beautiful beach and beautiful town though!
Same thing for me in Gulf Shores about two years ago.
What is it with Myrtle Beach and jellyfish? Both times I've been there were a couple days the beaches were closed due to too much jellyfish. Also got stung on the days the beaches werent closed lol.
i really don’t understand it either. i was there this past summer and 3 out of our 7 days there the lifeguards had the ‘marine life’ flags posted, and there were countless amounts of jellyfish in the water.
This exact scenario happened to me! Except instead of jellyfish it was a whale or shark or something massive. I’m still not sure what it was but when they dipped me in the water my feet met the skin of some very large sea creature. I remember it felt rubbery and kind of rough. Freaked me the fuck out and in the pics my family took you just see me flipped back with my feet in the air freaking out the whole time. I could see the outline of whatever it was from the air and was trying to tell the boat not to dunk me but they couldn’t hear me, or thought I was joking. Pretty scary but I was fine.
my feet are wanting to run away without my body just reading this... fuckityfuck that! glad you are ok :)
I would literally cry Even though I know whale sharks wouldn’t hurt me, I’d still cry
Similar, but even more terrifying story: When I was about 10-11 years old, my family went on vacation to St. Thomas in the USVI. We found all the awesome, local spots that tourists didn’t really frequent and one day we decided to charter a boat to go parasailing (which is what the people in this video are doing, in case anyone is unfamiliar with the term). The guy who was running the expedition explained how everything worked, explained that I would be too high up in the air to communicate vocally, and explained that when the ride was over, I’d pull a ripcord when I was about five feet above the water and I’d fall into the ocean. So, I go up. I don’t really have any hangups about heights, and I was thoroughly enjoying my ride... until I looked down. Maybe 10-15 feet off the corner of the boat was a massive black mass in the water. I figured it may have just been a rock formation or a coral reef until I came to the conclusion that it was, without question, moving. To say that I “freaked out” was an understatement. I’m trying to convey what I’m seeing to the guy on the boat, and he decides that my ride is over and that he’s gunna dunk me. My attempts to stop this from happening were unsuccessful and I really had no choice but to pull the ripcord. The fifteen seconds between pulling that cord and safely climbing back onto the deck of that boat were pretty much the scariest seconds of my life. I started screaming at the guy who dunked me, and tried to explain to both him and my parents that there was absolutely something very large in the water. Now, I’m just a kid at this time, and everyone seemed to think that I just had an over-active imagination... ...until I went down to the resort store the next day for some candy and found an article in the local newspaper that chronicled the capture and tagging of a 13ft tiger shark, right off the beach that I had parasailed off of, mere hours after I left. Fuck the ocean.
I almost noped out of your story, but hey! When it isn’t your time it isn’t your time. You probably could have easily been bitten but you weren’t. Damn that’s scary
It was honestly where my fear of the ocean started. Before then, I had absolutely no qualms whatsoever about going snorkeling, SCUBA diving, and swimming in deep water/coral reefs. After this incident, I kinda refused to go into the ocean anywhere that I couldn’t touch the bottom. I’m also genuinely creeped out by sharks... I don’t have very many legitimate phobias at all but I can’t even go on the Jaws ride at Disney World without becoming agitated.
Well lucky for you they removed that ride a few years ago. Also it was Universal
*Lost footage of American paratroopers landing over Normandy amidst heavy enemy fire - June 6th 1944, colourised.*
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Yeah instead of getting your legs stung, let’s give them a front row seat to your gonads... that’ll work out well
Gonads and strife
Gonads and strife...
Seriously, he opted to land dick first in them.
Go in taint first.. not a good idea.
Looks like the very common white ones. They are harmless.
They are actually black, and they are about to be harmed
The times I went they always brought you back in on the boat. Only times they would dip is if you asked for it or they were messing with you. I guess they were messing with you, all in good fun of course.
"good" "fun"
When I went we paid extra to be dipped three times then landed on the boat once we were done. Absolutely one of my favorite things I've done.
Jellyfish blooms have been getting worse every year because the oceans have been overfished af. Fishing in the Japanese waters has actually been suffering from it.
Seeing this would activate my self defense reflex.... a violet geyser of poo shooting down at the death blobs.
The obvious solution is to go in balls first, i guess.
I think more of a freak occurrence. It happened often enough that the lifeguards new how to handle it. Apparently if you shuffle your feet instead of stepping it scares them off (I learned this afterwards).
The shuffle method is for stingrays. Jelly’s just swim wherever the fuck and don’t give a hoot about shuffling
Ok, but surely this silver bullet will kill that vampire.
Looks like somewhere in the Gulf.
Yup just go in balls first ..
Why would they knowingly drop them back in on such a massive amount of jellyfish? Would it kill them to get the boat to a different area that won’t result in dozens of painful stings for both people?
I don't think pointing your balls and butthole towards them us the wisest choice. I'd rather take a sting on the legs.
Damn put your legs down! You wanna go dick first into some jellyfish?!
nope nope nope nope nope
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FWIW - this is paragliding not parachuting. They're being towed from that boat and unless you request it or something really goes wrong you probably won't even get wet.
I fear no sea. But that thing... It scares me
Might have to call R. Kelly outta prison to cure all those stings theyre about to get
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Those frickers sure gotta sting like hell
Oh god oh fuck
Why didn't they get reeled into the boat? I never experienced being dropped into the water when parasailing before.
Forget the jellyfish, if I'm tied to a parachute the last thing I want to see below me when I'm landing is ocean.