thimble jellly fish

[Augustus]

Just curious if anyone has seen these this year. Years past there were clouds of these on the surface but so far I have yet to see one this year. Global warming changes?

 

[ggunn]

Just curious if anyone has seen these this year. Years past there were clouds of these on the surface but so far I have yet to see one this year. Global warming changes?

I have been diving Cozumel at least once a year since 1991, usually in May. Some trips I see clouds of these things and some none at all. i haven't noticed a trend up or down in their numbers over the years; sometimes they are there and sometimes they are not.

FWIW, I have ascended through them many times and have yet to get stung by one - that I felt, anyway <sound of me knocking on my wooden desk>.

 

[MMM]

I encountered them once this year, in late March or mid April or so (I didn't dive first 10 days of April, so know it wasn't then), at a site far, far south. I forget which one...maybe Punta Sur or Maracaibo or thereabouts? I should have made a note. Never saw them again for the remainder of my trip.

 

[Dave Dillehay]

Sometimes they do show up in April May, sometimes they don't. This year the Sagassum Weed did for the first time and very few Thimble Jellies. There is a "NATURAL" variability to all this that no climate change models can predict, nor likely ever will. If we live long enough we will see everything change (save the cruise ship crowds).

Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers

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