Dizzying Video Shows the Moment a Jellyfish Gets Caught in a Bubble Vortex

[Judi Lynn]

By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer | June 5, 2019 03:24pm ET

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Here's a jellyfish video with a twist ending … actually, make that 40 or 50 twists.

In a new, 1-minute clip taken by a snorkeler off the coast of Spain, a wee jellyfish ventures too close to an air-filled bubble ring rising up on a strong current. When the jelly touches the ring, the bubble doesn't burst — instead, it sucks the unsuspecting medusa into its swirling heart and sends the jelly spinning like a blurry, pink cyclone.

According to Victor Devalles, the photographer/snorkeler who took the video, he blew the bubble ring in hopes that it would pass around the jelly, providing a different, slightly more majestic photo op.

"Those bubble rings are just air in a vortex current, so the jellyfish was stuck in that stream twisting and spinning so fast," Devalles told the U.K. news site Mirror.

Luckily, Devalles added, the jelly didn't seem to be injured by its wild ride and swam off shortly after the ring stopped spinning.

More:
https://www.livescience.com/65644-jellyfish-caught-in-bubble-ring.html

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1. Who knows....

...it might come back for more.