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Title Date of sighting reporter Image Lat / Lng Description Type of organism Other type
Isle of Palms jelly watch… BobDylan 101 32.800 / -79.740

Box Jelly

Box Jelly
Dead Sea Lion drthom Alt text 36.970 / -121.910

Head apparently missing, skin almost intact

Vertebrate
Dead Sea Lion drthom Alt text 36.970 / -121.910

May be same dead sea lion as spotted beneath the Seacliff

Vertebrate
Dead Sea Lion drthom Alt text 36.970 / -121.910

Holes in skin

Vertebrate
Cyanea capillata/Lion… Cynthia.S 41.290 / -69.370 Jellyfish
Isle of Palms jelly watch… BobDylan 101 32.800 / -79.730

Man O War

Man o war Physalia
Summer Santa Barbara… akwok2013 Alt text 34.410 / -119.690

Sighting of what appeared to be jellyfish near Steams Pie

Jellyfish
Isle of Palms jelly watch… BobDylan 101 32.790 / -79.780

Cannonball Jelly

Jellyfish
Isle of Palms jelly watch… BobDylan 101 32.800 / -79.750

Man O War

Man o war Physalia
Clean seas in Spanish Med… openhouse 41.720 / 2.940

Very few jellies

Clean sea
Isle of Palms jelly watch… BobDylan 101 32.790 / -79.770

Cannonball Jelly

Jellyfish
Isle of Palms jelly watch… BobDylan 101 32.790 / -79.780

Man O War Jelly

Man o war Physalia
Diffuse bioluminescence… Jellywatcher -41.290 / 174.830

From the surface to at least 15m.

Red Tide
3stings kseel3 29.140 / -95.040

we went to Galveston,Tx and were at the beach San Luis Pa

Jellyfish
Thousands of Jellies Jellywatcher 49.380 / -122.880

We saw many thousands of small to medium jellies last wee

Jellyfish
several jelly fish on… kseel3 29.080 / -95.120

3 stings in 3 days a friend of mine and her daughter were

Jellyfish
Polyorchis sp. at Moss… bobbreen 37.550 / -122.540

Thousands of Polyorchis sp.

Jellyfish hydromedusae
Purple jellyfish in San… octernion 32.710 / -117.230 me and my homiez saw about 10-20 large (20cm+ umbrella) purp Jellyfish
Chrysaora achylos in San… beroe Alt text 32.670 / -117.140

Reported in the news by several beachgoers.

Jellyfish
San Diego Bay Surprise Jellywatcher Alt text 32.730 / -117.210 Jellyfish
Portuguese man o war in… openhouse 19.980 / -155.830

Big island

Man o war man o war
Sighting off Silver… Jellywatcher 32.630 / -117.140 Jellyfish
Black Sea Nettle Spotted… sdjellie Alt text 32.710 / -117.230

An actual sighting captured on camera of a 3 to 4 foot je

Jellyfish
i step on sand, sand… Jellywatcher 43.400 / -70.410

me and my homies wuz walkin on the beach when my man nick

Other bioluminescent dinoflagellate
Bioluminescent comb… Jellywatcher 41.710 / -71.160

Mouth of Coles River emptying into bay in Swansea, Mass.

Other ctenophores