video - Jellyfish under a full moon

[Mango]

Wow, very cool. National Geographic worthy.
Thanks for the jelly fish "sting."

 

[Cheering472]

Amazing Thanks Kurt, you make a good jellyfish wrangler. Hope the stings are better.

 

[grammyc]

Kurt-you are a very BRAVE man! AND excellent with that camera. What kind is it? I have an olympus 770sw digital/water and hope to do some shooting from my kayak while there in aug. Also how do you keep it so still as in your other kayak videos? Keep shooting, you're a natural!

 

[Hop]

Are the fishys' trapped in the jelly? All I can say is National Geographic!

those guys look pretty gnarly...they were out in force yesterday @ crab island....

 

[Beachmom]

Beautiful Kurt!Thanks for sharing!

 

[Allifunn]

COOL!!!!
I didn't know jelly fish were an eco system of their own!

 

[Kurt]

Thanks everyone!

You must speak jellyfishish. They seemed to be performing for the camera. Thanks for taking one for the team in the making of this video!

Oh yeah- where's the part where you fell into the water?

That's on the outtakes video.

Very nice. How big in diameter were some of these jellies? :shock:

They're what we call cannonballs. Most are little bigger than a big fist. Some have tentacles which are several feet.

Are the fishys' trapped in the jelly? All I can say is National Geographic!

The fish are immune to the sting. The jellies offer protexction from predators that are not immune. Like us.

Kurt-you are a very BRAVE man! AND excellent with that camera. What kind is it? I have an olympus 770sw digital/water and hope to do some shooting from my kayak while there in aug. Also how do you keep it so still as in your other kayak videos? Keep shooting, you're a natural!

Olympus 1030 - I usually have it resting on something.

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Someone told me tonight that there is a market for cannonball jellies in Japan and that some of our local fisherman have taken to the trade.

 

[Matt J]

Someone told me tonight that there is a market for cannonball jellies in Japan and that some of our local fisherman have taken to the trade.

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish[/ame]

Scroll down to Culinary uses. Apparently they pickle it.

Cool footage, is the camera water proof or do you put it in a ziplock?

 

[meigsart]

I had the experience of being fed it on a biz trip to China. It was crunchy, I asked what it was...shouldn't have. Great video Kurt!!

 

[DD]

Very cool, Kurt.