Mt Storm Dive Reports

[emcbride81]

Those jellies are HUGE! They come up from the bottom depths to eat the catfish, but sometimes eat whatever is in their path, including divers! Maybe that is where the indian head went!

I have only seen one or two, they were about the size of a quarter to fifty cent piece. Hard to see at Storm unless you run up on them. Even then they are easy to miss.

My buddy and I ended up diving a local private quarry Saturday, and we must have seen 10-20 of them.

[WV Diver]

NAS - Species FactSheet

Here is a little of the biology of the Freshwater Jellyfish. Enjoy.

[emcbride81]

wow! a penny....that shows the magnification of water...or my poor vision!

[WV Diver]

Originally Posted by emcbride81

wow! a penny....that shows the magnification of water...or my poor vision!

I wasn't going to say anything.

[navyhmc]

Originally Posted by emcbride81

wow! a penny....that shows the magnification of water...or my poor vision!

But these are bad tempered MUTANT Freshwater Jelly fish...

[scubajane]

Originally Posted by navyhmc

But these are bad tempered MUTANT Freshwater Jelly fish...

apparently they have broken our platform!!! dang jellies!!!!!!

[navyhmc]

Better than sharks with friking laser beams on their heads...think of the damage they would do.

I've been following the posts, how's the repair going.

[scubajane]

we've gotten brackets on most of the legs of the north platform. the other platform is beyond what I can do. all the legs are off and the platform has dropped about 3 ft. I think 5-6 DMs with lift bags are needed to get it back on it's legs and lots of brackets and screws and muscle. it's going to take alot of work. some have suggested a new platform....hmmmmm I dont have the cash or expertise for that one.