"Joe" wrote
| Jelly fish is correct, but not the Man-O-War but the box jelly fish
| who's venom is 300 time more toxic(and painful) than the man-o-war. Now
| they even think a pea sized box jelly fish may be killing people as
| they are getting stung in areas that have jelly fish nets up. Saw it
| on National geographic the other night. Were the tails hit these people
| it looked like they were beaten with a heavy cable that left welps and
| bruises. They showed the harpoons under a electro microscope, the
| harpoons all wound up in venom pockets, when they hit anything they
| explode out fast enough to go deep under the skin and into the blood
| stream, the harpoon hairs are 1/1000th the thickness of a human hair.
|
| BTW our marina if full of marble to baseball size jelly fish right now,
| mostly cabbage heads and a few Man-o-wars, they make a cool green glow
| as the chopped up parts swirl down the head.


Ewwww! Something to worry about in Australia. I'm glad there's none on the Gold Coast.
I googled them and read http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/.../jellyfish.htm
It says stings are almost always fatal. Square jellyfish. Weird!

Cheers,
Ellen