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Jellyfish!

  • 27-05-2010 9:07pm
    #1
    kingQuez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭


    Call me species-ist, but I prefer when its only humans swimming near me :) Whats the deal with jellyfish, are they gonna be a regular part of sea swimming and do they sting?


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  • #2
    mloc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    kingQuez wrote: »
    Call me species-ist, but I prefer when its only humans swimming near me :) Whats the deal with jellyfish, are they gonna be a regular part of sea swimming and do they sting?

    I remember my first sea swim last year, swam over one and it scared the **** outta me. I think if you have your wetsuit, hat etc.. on you should be fairly safe imo


  • #3
    gerard65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭gerard65


    kingQuez wrote: »
    Call me species-ist, but I prefer when its only humans swimming near me :) Whats the deal with jellyfish, are they gonna be a regular part of sea swimming and do they sting?
    If their the same type hanging around seapoint a few years ago, yes they do bloody sting. Bit like nettles but for some people it can be alot more serious if you have an allergic reaction. They seem to be occasional visitors that come and go during the warm weather.


  • #4
    tyler71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭tyler71


    Generally they're only round for a few weeks of the season, when it's warm - with our crap summer last year, I hardly saw any (apart from the Hell of the West swim when I saw a good few). I don't think the little blobby ones are a big deal when you have a wetsuit on, but you need to watch out for the Lion's mane/Portugese Man of War types with the long traily tendrils, they can give a serious sting. For this reason I tend to swim in the open water looking much more further ahead than I would in the pool, had to do a few sudden evasive maneouvres a few times, whereas otherwise I might have barrelled straight into them.

    On the plus side of open water swimming, I got followed by a seal this evening - love to see what sort of time those lads could do for a 1500.


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