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| Title | Date of sighting | reporter | Image | Lat / Lng | Description | Type of organism | Other type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| moon jellies… | Jellywatcher | 24.550 / -81.780 | this past fall, key west saw an extended period of LOTS o |
Jellyfish | |||
| Red Tide | Jellywatcher | 33.750 / -118.120 | there is red tide in the los alomitos bay area of long be |
Red Tide | |||
| Red tide,… | WhaleTales | 32.760 / -117.230 | I am the naturalist for San Diego Whale Watch out of Miss |
Red Tide | |||
| Many, Many,… | scubacam2002 | 
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24.530 / -82.310 | Scuba Diving on Atocha/Santa Margarita wreck sites. |
Jellyfish | Moon Jellyfish | |
| Bioluminescent… | Jellywatcher | 32.760 / -117.260 | The waves were dull reddish brown before dark, at night t |
Red Tide | |||
| Craspedecusta… | algoma paddlers | 46.430 / -83.220 | translucent whitish hydromedusa, diameters from 4 to 21 m |
Jellyfish | |||
| Antarctic… | Skim | 
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-77.800 / 166.670 | Diplulmaris antarctica, photographed at Cinder Cones, McM |
Jellyfish | ||
| Torrey Pines… | Jellywatcher | 32.930 / -117.260 | Large waves during red tide produced spectacularly brilli |
Red Tide | |||
| Destin Florida… | Jellywatcher | 30.380 / -86.480 | Jellyfish | ||||
| Swarm of Moon… | scubacam2002 | 
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24.480 / -81.710 | Scuba diving off Key West, ocean side on reefs |
Jellyfish | Moon Jellys | |
| … | Jellywatcher | 30.380 / -87.070 | There are incredible amounts of bioluminescent plankton ( |
Other | Bioluminescence | ||
| Glowing Waves… | Jellywatcher | 
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32.920 / -117.260 | The waves were aglow due to red tide at Torrey Pines Stat |
Red Tide | ||
| Calafia State… | Jellywatcher | 33.400 / -117.610 | Witnessed a beautiful Bioluminescent surf at Calafia beac |
Red Tide | |||
| Del Mar Beach… | Jellywatcher | 33.140 / -117.420 | The ocean looked brown rather than the normal blue. |
Red Tide | |||
| California Sea… | Jellywatcher | 34.410 / -119.690 | seen off stearns wharf |
Vertebrate | |||
| Rachel sting… | Jellywatcher | 37.570 / -1.250 | 6 inch flat translucent disc, with black "veins" |
Jellyfish | |||
| Ko lanta small… | mobile_jellywatcher | 7.560 / 99.040 | Box Jelly | ||||
| Lion's… | Jellywatcher | -41.260 / 173.270 | 1 Cyanea sp. |
Jellyfish | |||
| Glowing Surf… | Jellywatcher | 33.420 / -117.620 | The dark night helped highlight the glowing surf as the w |
Red Tide | |||
| Box jellyfish… | Jellywatcher | 34.020 / -118.430 | Marina Del Rey Harbor E doc. |
Box Jelly | |||
| Bright… | Jellywatcher | 
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33.460 / -117.720 | Electric blue flashes of light from crashing waves. |
Red Tide | ||
| Jellyfish… | Bedearing | 32.000 / -80.850 | 3 Cannonball (Stomolophus), 1 Atlantic Sea Nettle (Chysao |
Jellyfish | |||
| … | Jellywatcher | 33.430 / -117.610 | large bright greenish blue lights flashed in the waves in |
Red Tide | dinoflagellates | ||
| Misc jellies… | beroe | 36.780 / -121.890 | Large Chrysaora and Phacellophora near coast to about 5 m |
Jellyfish | |||
| Tripedalia… | cnatsphysalia | 18.160 / -65.740 | Big specimens getting caught on fishing nets. |
Box Jelly |