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Posted 02 November 2009 - 03:35 PM

www.telegraph.co.uk said:

A 10-ton fishing boat has been sunk by gigantic jellyfish off eastern Japan.

The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish.

Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been inundated with the creatures this year.Experts believe weather and water conditions in the breeding grounds, off the coast of China, have been ideal for the jellyfish in recent months.

The crew of the fishing boat was thrown into the sea when the vessel capsized, but the three men were rescued by another trawler, according to the Mainichi newspaper. The local Coast Guard office reported that the weather was clear and the sea was calm at the time of the accident.

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Posted 02 November 2009 - 07:40 PM

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Posted 03 November 2009 - 12:27 AM

Revenge of the jellyfish. :rolleyes:
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 01:25 AM

Eeeeevil jellyfish
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 03:02 PM

I wonder if they can be kept as pets....a large swimming pool perhaps :rofl:

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Posted 03 November 2009 - 03:09 PM

You can eat jellyfish maybe if we made it more main stream we could get McDonalds to come up with a Mc Jelly sandwich oh that sounds disgusting ewwww
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 04:11 PM

Oh, I thought it was going to be that a giant jellyfish, I mean godzilla kind of size, had loomed out of the sea and dragged the boat down into the abyss. That would have been quite exciting.
Although 200kg seems quite big enough. What on earth would you do with one?
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 08:13 PM

The article does not say they were pulling them in as food, so I'm thinking they caught them accidentally and were trying to get rid of them. Good thing no one fell into the area with the net full of jellyfish.

Really a 10 ton boat is not terribly big anyway.
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Posted 03 November 2009 - 08:16 PM

They'll eat any ruddy thing in that part of the world...sea slugs,centipides,snakes,swallow spit soup.....anything.

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Posted 03 November 2009 - 09:22 PM

What a misleading headline. <_<
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Posted 04 November 2009 - 12:40 AM

Wait. There's giant jellyfish? I didn't know that! I learned something new today. X3

It didn't dan on me that it said Jellyfish. o.o'

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Posted 05 November 2009 - 05:16 AM

View PostThe Silver Thong, on 03 November 2009 - 11:09 AM, said:

You can eat jellyfish maybe if we made it more main stream we could get McDonalds to come up with a Mc Jelly sandwich oh that sounds disgusting ewwww

the thought of processed jellyfish patties makes me want to hurl...
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Posted 14 November 2009 - 03:22 AM

Scary! The crew must have peed their pants. I hope no one got hurt.
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Posted 15 November 2009 - 11:42 PM

Capsized because of giant jellyfish? That'll ruin your day. ^_^
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