Over 400 individuals had been stung by jellyfish in Salobreña – no instances of jellyfish being bitten by people had been recorded. This one-side aggression has not gone unnoticed.

I’ve by no means fairly understood this attraction for seashores in excessive summer season; you both lay on the seashore being Stuka-dived by flies and plundered for sweat, or plunge into the water and get gang-mugged by a swarm of diaphanous, sink plungers trailing an armoury of cat-of-nine-tails.

Anyway, every to his personal…

Scores of bathers had been handled for jellyfish stings by Crimson Cross volunteers throughout July. Their official figures stand at 425 victims. Final yr the determine for the entire of summer season was 962 remedies utilized.

An egg head at Universidad de Granada, Luis Sánchez Tocino, defined that winds and currents coming from deep contained in the Mediterranean; i.e., to the East, convey jellyfish of the sort Pelagia noctiluca, extra generally generally known as ‘little bastards’ or ‘mauve stingers’ if the youngsters about .

Most of them are inmature ones (clearly males) because the grownup creature can develop to 20cm throughout its dome.

The suggestions stay the identical regarding stings: don’t gargle with jellyfish. Use seawater not contemporary water, to take away items of tentacles on the pores and skin across the sting space.

There have been sightings of larger jelly gits in Salobreña waters of the sort, Phyllorhiza punctata, usually discovered within the Pacific and if one has been noticed, then you’ll be able to make certain that it isn’t travelling alone. The truth is, they had been first detected within the Mediterranean in 1965.

(Information: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)