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Title Date of sighting reporter Image Lat / Lng Description Type of organism Other type
Torrey Pines state beach… Jellywatcher 32.930 / -117.260

Large waves during red tide produced spectacularly brilli

Red Tide
Destin Florida Sighting… Jellywatcher 30.380 / -86.480 Jellyfish
Swarm of Moon Jellyfish… scubacam2002 Alt text 24.480 / -81.710

Scuba diving off Key West, ocean side on reefs

Jellyfish Moon Jellys
Bioluminescence Jellywatcher 30.380 / -87.070

There are incredible amounts of bioluminescent plankton (

Other Bioluminescence
Del Mar Beach Red Tide… Jellywatcher 33.140 / -117.420

The ocean looked brown rather than the normal blue.

Red Tide
Calafia State Beach, San… Jellywatcher 33.400 / -117.610

Witnessed a beautiful Bioluminescent surf at Calafia beac

Red Tide
Glowing Waves at Torrey… Jellywatcher Alt text 32.920 / -117.260

The waves were aglow due to red tide at Torrey Pines Stat

Red Tide
California Sea Lion 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&quot

Jellyfish
Ko lanta small boxy mobile_jellywatcher 7.560 / 99.040 Box Jelly
Lion's mane jelly… Jellywatcher -41.260 / 173.270

1 Cyanea sp.

Jellyfish
Glowing Surf around San… Jellywatcher 33.420 / -117.620

The dark night helped highlight the glowing surf as the w

Red Tide
Box jellyfish in… Jellywatcher 34.020 / -118.430

Marina Del Rey Harbor E doc.

Box Jelly
Bright Bioluminesence/… Jellywatcher Alt text 33.460 / -117.720

Electric blue flashes of light from crashing waves.

Red Tide
Jellyfish Sightings on… Bedearing 32.000 / -80.850

3 Cannonball (Stomolophus), 1 Atlantic Sea Nettle (Chysao

Jellyfish
bioluminescence in san… Jellywatcher 33.430 / -117.610

large bright greenish blue lights flashed in the waves in

Red Tide dinoflagellates
Misc jellies in Monterey… beroe 36.780 / -121.890

Large Chrysaora and Phacellophora near coast to about 5 m

Jellyfish
Tripedalia cystophora-… cnatsphysalia 18.160 / -65.740

Big specimens getting caught on fishing nets.

Box Jelly
Eugene Island, Block 120… Jellywatcher 26.020 / -91.270

Work offshore, notice a large group of jelly fish floatin

Jellyfish
Damb sea lice and jelly… Jellywatcher 28.320 / -80.600

We have been experiencing serious problems here in cocoa

Jellyfish
Aurelia Jellywatcher 27.450 / -80.330

Aurelia in Fort PIece, Fl.

Jellyfish
Moon jellyfish mobile_jellywatcher 54.330 / -4.560 Jellyfish Moon jellyfish
Chrysaora fuscescens Abreojos 36.750 / -121.840

ROV Ventana observations between 10 and 35 m depth

Jellyfish
Jellyfish Sightings on… Bedearing 32.000 / -80.850

1 Moon (Aurelia), 20 Cannonball (Stomolophus), and 1 Comb

Jellyfish
Mnemiopsis leidyi fcmovie Alt text 49.590 / -1.250

Tatihou island

Other Ctenophore : Mnemiopsis leidyi