Bathers play part in tailing ‘jellies’

A MAP on the EcoJel website shows locations at which people were stung by jellyfish this year.

Report A Sting is an initiative of University College Cork and Swansea University.

Bathers are asked to document encounters with jellyfish. It’s part of a wide-ranging research effort in which EcoJel scientists carry out surveys from the decks of Irish Ferries ships and divers fit tags to the tentacles of lion’s main jellyfish — not a job for the fainthearted. The movements of the tagged jellies are tracked underwater. Reports from bathers are a valuable source of additional information.