That's what you get for riding a jet-ski in the first place!


"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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In agony I realized what
had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a
jellyfish and
pumped it into my suit.

Yeah well, the story might've been circulating for a
while, but I've
actually been there, done that.

Stand-up jetski.
Mid-August afternoon (hot, in and out of the water) in
1998.
Shallow bay west of Delaware town of Dewey Beach.

I started to throttle up the jetski to give me enough
momentum to pull
myself up onto it. To my horror I saw a cloud of small
jellysfish in the
water just ahead of me. Here I am, dragging behind the
jetski...

The impeller sucks up the jellyfish, chops 'em up and
ejects them out the
nozzle... straight down my shorts, since I'm hangin' off
the back trying to
build momentum.

Felt like someone tossed a running industrial belt sander
into my pants, or
what I'd imagine that'd feel like...

I hung off the side, opened the throttle WIDE OPEN and
headed straight out
for deeper water. Hung off the side with barely my nose
above water in an
attempt to chill the UNBELIEAVABLE stinging. Took about a
half-hour until
my buddies came out wondering what the heck I was doing.
Heard the same
laughter.

Suffice to say I ain't going near a stand-up jetski again
anytime soon.

-Bill Kearney