It's jellyfish season again. The inner bay, the marina slips fill with jellyfish -- thousands and thousands -- which is pretty interesting, except of course if they get sucked into your raw water strainer, thence into the heat exchangers for main engine and generator, and/or aircon pumps. Then it's not so much interesting as it is a pain in the butt!

It does remind me though of a blue-water dive I did around 89-90. I was working as research diving officer at UCSC's Institute of Marine Sciences, and the research diving class was doing a 100' blue-water dive off a "trapeze" well out in Monterey Bay off the USGS research vessel David Johnson. Things were going pretty much as usual when we were suddenly engulfed in a 'jellyfish blizzard'; visibility was down to little more than arms-length and millions of 1-2 foot, amber-colored jellyfish blew through on the 3-4knot current. Quite remarkable.