Whats up the Jelly invasion!

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Whats up the Jelly invasion!

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Whoa, I had an OW class and Drysuit class this weekend and there were a gazillions of egg yolk and sea nettle jellies!!

we were up at Mukilteo and 2 students got a slight sting on the lip, nothing more than an annoyance, but still tends to freak new students out when they are surrounded by a bunch of jellies on their very first OW dives..

Anyone else diving this weekend see the same thing?
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Cyclical thing. I saw this last year too. year before I was too new to pay attention but I'll bet the old timers will back me up & say it happens every year. You'll start to see'em sick & dying off pretty soon.
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The plankton blooms bring more jellies because there is more food which results in them reproducing at a faster rate thus jelly invasions. Simple answer, there are lots more reason but I don't feeling like typing that much random facts :p
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yep its jelly season now ...
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Summer is jelly season. Lots of 'em in Hood Canal as well.
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Is it true that Lionsmanes Jelly's (sp?), eat the Fried Egg Jelly's or moon jelly's?
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get a lot of them off the OR coast also in the summer, it sucks lol. I find the deeper I go the less I see them.
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The acidification of our oceans.....
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Had a couple of Lions Manes join us on a dive last night.. interresting to see these guys swim AGAINST current and making better headway than i am :)
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BASSMAN wrote:Is it true that Lionsmanes Jelly's (sp?), eat the Fried Egg Jelly's or moon jelly's?
I have heard that but don't know if it's true. I do know that anemone's do though. You'll start seeing allot of that about now throughout the sound. Les Davis or Sund rock are good sites for that.
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