Monster jellyfish invades Britain – sighted in beaches of Devon and Cornwall

Monster jellyfish of the Portuguese man o' war category with tentacles as long as five London buses (160-feet!!) have been spotted around the English coastline of Devon and Cornwall. These usually stay just below the surface and usually lives far out in the ocean. However, they are invading Britain.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 19 August 2015.

Swimmers, surfers and beach paddlers very seldom spot the creatures in time and that can be dangerous. The Portuguese man o'war gets its name from the shape of its body that looks like a 16th Century Portuguese warship - and their sting can prove fatal, especially for the frail, very young or elderly.
The beaches are packed with summer holidaymakers and doctors have cautioned that anyone stung by jellyfish must immediately seek advice from coastguards or lifeguards.
Experts from the Marine Conservation Society have indicated that they have received a huge number of reports of jellyfish from their survey team this year. These include vast numbers of barrel jellyfish, which are the size of dustbins. And - thirty Portuguese man o' wars have been seen drifting along the Devon and Cornwall coasts this July.
In 2013 it was a record year for jellyfish sightings – there were more than 1,000 reports involving hundreds of thousands of jellyfish.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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