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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

There is a large, very large jellyfish in the Puget Sound called a lions mane jelly.

it's huge.








While Wearing a full wet suit, scuba diving wife still got stung around exposed lips and face by her nose and mouth regulator.


getting out of the water, of course I had to pee on it to kill the sting.

they get pretty big.

The largest recorded specimen was measured off the coast of Massachusetts in 1865 and had a bell with a diameter of 210 centimetres (7 feet) and tentacles around 36.6 m (120 ft) long.

I wondered how that compared to a Portuguese Man-o-war. I know they can get long. They are usually 30' or less, but they can get tentacles as long as 100'. The top is much smaller. What I didn't know about them until very recently is that they aren't a jellyfish or even a single organism. They are a community of several different organisms.