Re: Trip Report - Sun Dancer II - Belize

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:26:58 -0700 (PDT), jeramy.smith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Sea wasps are small and very thing exposure protection protects you.
Typically people get stung on the hands which a pair of gloves will
fix. Or just purge your regulator on your ascent to float them out of
the way.

As stated, they didn't permit the use of gloves on this boat. Or I might have
changed my mind. And maybe you and I are thinking of different species.
When I think "sea wasp," I'm thinking the deadly kind of "box jelly" (like the
kind you see in Australia e.g. with 10' + tentacles). Perhaps that's not the
species encountered in Belize where I was, but I wasn't going to find out.

We have small clear jellies her on the NJ shore that I encounter, but I'm
usually hooded and gloved and in a drysuit at the time so they don't really
bother me. And yes, purging your regulator (or simply exhaling) seems to
help.

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Regards,

Arnold
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