"Tim" wrote in message
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On Aug 2, 3:30 pm, wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:10:45 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

What's a "sea nettle?"

Stinging jelly fish doesn't quite cover it. Imagine something the size
of a large inverted soup bowl with tentacles about 3 feet long that
wrap around you and set you on fire everywhere they touch you.
... That sort of thing.

It certainly changes the way you water ski. You learn how to sit on
the gunnel of one boat, while the pull boat yanks you off. Then you
are real careful not to fall no matter what. To stop you either coast
up on the beach or ski up next to the other boat and roll in.
That was a $35 fine the last time I did it ;-)

Several years ago, my sister was with friends in either Jamaica or
some place in the Bahams and she was stung by a jelly fish of some
sorts. I believe it may have been a man-o-war. She was almost
hospitalized over it. Hard reaction and bad swelling in her ankle.
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I got into some broken tentacles in the surf at Cocoa Beach pier once.
Incapacitating agony for a short time (IIRC 20+/- minutes).
I'd bet getting wrapped up in one of these while trying to swim could cause
a person to drown, it was that bad.