I wanna see jellyfish!

[diver_doug]

When I started diving, there were a number of things I was hoping to see and I've seen almost all of them (leopard sharks, bat rays, octopus, sea bass, sea lions, eel). But I have yet to see a jellyfish. Are there any dive sites in socal that typically have jellies, or maybe a particular time of year when they're more common?

 

[Mr Carcharodon]

The Giant Stride in Marina del Rey does blue water dives where you are several miles off shore. Jellies are one of the main attractions on those dives.

 

[Rainer]

I almost always see some jellies when diving off boats in SD and LA (much more rarely at the Channel Islands). Boat dive and you're bound to see some.

 

[Bubbletrubble]

We've been seeing a few different kinds of jellyfish at La Jolla Shores in the past few months. Often times we run into them in the shallows or just off of the canyon wall (approx. 50 fsw). More specifically, we've encountered fried egg jellyfish (Phacellophora camtschatica), purple-stripe jellyfish (Chrysaora colorata), black sea nettles (Chrysaora achlyos), small box jellyfish (Carybdea marsupialis), and Polyorchis penicillatus. On Sunday, I saw my first Apolemia sp.

 

[riguerin]

Lots of black sea nettles on the Yukon this past weekend

 

[diver_doug]

Dammit, sounds like they're everywhere! Maybe I'll check out la jolla shores next week and see if I can encounter some. Thanks for the responses!

 

[oggy666]

Come visit up north you can dive in clouds of moon jellyfish, you gotta see the lion's mane jellyfish there amazing!!!

 

[The Kraken]

No ya don't . . .

the K

 

[The Kraken]

Kind of off the wall story/experience . . .

We were diving Gray's Reef off the coast of Georgia some years ago.

The dive was OK, not spectacular and the ride out would make a bull rider toss his guts, but anyway.

Was a drift dive. The dive was ok, but when we got to the point of ascent and pick up, it was something out "The Twilight Zone". There was some movie made some years ago about some people doing some deep sea research and they were going delusional and dying. but this was somewhat reminiscent.

Anyway, as we started ascending we came up to about 25' or so and there was a jelly fish in each and every 1 cubic foot of water. These weren't the nice type of jellies either. Fortunately I was in full neoprene so all I had to do was cover my lower face area.

That was freaky.

the K

 

[scuba e]

Newport harbor is full of them in the back basins. I wouldnt want to dive the habor though.