WOW…. check this out snorkelers! Geesh, I need to live closer to the water (I live in the burbs of Chicago).  California has all the fun…

Check out the rare dark jellyfish (Black Sea Nettle)  that is washing up in the San Diego coast. These beautiful creatures can grow 3 feet across and up to 30 feet long tentacles and if you are curious, they do sting.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, has a great video to watch. The Black Sea Nettle has found its way to the beaches of San Diego in the past and in 2007, they captured the jellyfish and took pictures, made the video and wrote the story on the Black Sea Nettle Jellyfish.

So grab your snorkel mask and snorkel and go check out the Black Sea Nettle… but please be very careful, wear a full Henderson Lycra Suit and do not touch the jellyfish, you will get stung.

picture compliments of Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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What would you do if you saw a 6 foot – 650 pound jellyfish? Walk on water? That is what I would do as I was heading back to the boat or shore. The jellyfish I am talking about is the Nomura Jellyfish.

For the past 3 summers, Japanese fishing boats continue to capsize beause of these large underwater creatures. The giant jellyfish get caught in the fishing nets and the fishermen do not know that the creatures are in the net and when they bring the nets up, the weight overturns the boats.

Read more on CNN, MSNBC and National Geographics.

Here is a video that I enjoyed and I hope you will. It will show you how large the Nomura Jellyfish are.