Huge jellyfish invade Cornwall!

[max_tranmere]

A swarm of massive jellyfish, totalling possibly thousands in number, that have tentacles as long as six feet and domes the size of dustbin lids, have been spotted off Cornwall. This is kinda scary, and I wouldn't want to go in the sea off the Cornish coast. Does anyone on here live down that way, and if so will you still be going for a dip in the sea?

[David Johnson]

Max, you obviously missed this part of your link.

""Large numbers of larvae are produced at once and when the conditions are favourable that's why they survive, you thick cunt," says Mr Slater.

Okay, I made up the "you thick cunt" bit. !wink!

But hey, Max if their sting is not powerful enough to harm humans and they bring loads of leatherback turtles to the area looking for a quick takeaway, that would be good?

[max_tranmere]

I'm aware that they're not particularly harmful. It must be bloody terrifying to see a posse of them, that size, or even one for that matter, swimming towards you though. The guy who filmed this clip (link below) is a wildlife expert and he even took his dog into the water with him and filmed a huge jellyfish, and his mutt, swimming near each other. He obviously knows so much about these creatures that he wouldn't be worried to have his mutt in the water near one. His mutt doesn't seem worried either:



If their presence in the sea off Cornwall brings the large turtles in that would be nice for the area, would be an interesting thing for the locals and the tourists to see.

[Panties]

Has been happening for quite a long time I think. One the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Lions Mane, was about a giant jellyfish washed up and in a rock pool on the Cornish coast.

[max_tranmere]

Apparently Britain used to have lots of creatures around its shores that you would expect to see in other parts of the world and not really see here. I saw an interesting two-part series on BBC4 recently about the old British whaling industry, and industry we no longer have, and they were interviewing old guys who, as young men, were whalers. According to this programme you used to see large whales off the Kent and Sussex coasts, this was before they were hunted to the extreme and now you don't see any there. You still get them of the north-east coast and sometimes large 35-foot whales get beached in the Humber estuary even today. You apparently get small sharks and dolphins off Cornwall still. It would be nice if we still had as much marine wildlife off our coastline as we used to - we don't though and that is mainly because of excessive hunting of these animals in the past.

[andy at handiwork]

As the seas around us warm up. expect to see quite a few species not native to our area swimming off the coast.

[Sam Slater]

Rumours are there is at least one slimy creature with no backbone living in a small town off the Irish Sea. Must be horrible for the locals.

[max_tranmere]

As the years go on and the sea temperatures rise it will be interesting to see what kind of 'creatures from the deep' appear off the shores of Blighty...

[max_tranmere]

I wonder who you could possibly be referring to! Lol.