It’s amazing really how such a gorgeous creature as this jellyfish looks almost like a firework exploding. What’s funny is that the crew isn’t going after jellyfish, they’re looking for crabs. It’d be easy just to sit there and watch the jellyfish moving back and forth, it’s that mesmerizing. So many creatures within the ocean’s depths have a type of beauty that’s easy to fall for and just watch incessantly but it can’t ever be denied that a lot of them are inherently dangerous. Jellyfish for example can be toxic and extremely dangerous if encountered in great numbers. Some aren’t all that dangerous when taken by themselves, but others are lethal when encountered.
Some jellyfish are known to be pretty docile and only go wherever the current takes them. A lot of these creatures are fairly simple and live to eat, procreate, and just drift on the tides. Beneath the water though a lot of them are lethal to their prey and, in some cases, to other creatures as well. There are even jellyfish that can measure up to eight feet or more in diameter and have tentacles that reach out to nearly 100 feet in length. Plus, a lot of their stings can last a while after their death, which means approaching one on the beach could be a mistake since even dead they can create a problem.
Watching them move in the water though is kind of impressive since really it seems like they shouldn’t be able to do much of anything. They have no bone structure to speak of and only the innards within their bells to offer any sense of shape and continuity to their form. Yet they retain their shape and their ability to move about thanks to that same form and the musculature that enables them to exist as they do. They’re a lot more complex than people give them credit for despite the fact that many of them don’t offer much in the way of protective covering. They don’t really need to honestly since their stingers and the venom within can in some cases be strong enough to take down a fully grown human and cause massive failure of the circulatory and respiratory systems without much problem. In such cases however a jellyfish isn’t out to eat a human being but is merely defending itself, or it’s a chance encounter that went awry.
Jellyfish are beautiful to witness as their bodies can take the light that is presented and put on quite a show, but they’re better to avoid unless there is some sort of barrier between them and the diver. In movies they’ve been kind of vilified more often than not since the types shown are still beautiful but highly toxic and capable of causing people great pain. Some jellyfish are very aggressive and will attack if they feel threatened, but others tend to attack only peripherally, meaning that they will swim away and leave their tentacles to trail behind them. In groups however you might never see jellyfish tuck tail and swim away since they are oceanic predators. The only time they might swim off is when another predator that feeds on them is present.
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