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Lifesaver critical after swallowing tentacle A TEENAGER was fighting for his life yesterday after accidentally ..

... a deadly box jellyfish tentacle left in a jar of water in a surf club refrigerator. The 17-year-old lifesaver from the resort village of Mission Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, drank water from a glass jar containing box jellyfish tentacles on ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

McCLELLAND USES NEW NET ON LOUGH SWIM Jack McClelland. the Ulster ( long-distance swimmer. used his new anti ..

... new anti-jellyfish net in his swim across Belfast Lough to-day. After testing in Carrickfergus harbour last night McClelland decided to try it on a longer swim. The net. designed by his two boatmen. David Honen and James Beggs, kept the jellyfish at a safe ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1958
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 81 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

:ore jel;oynlh handf he w:; badly | Ty ung about the face a arms. + Mr. John Allen, one of me'MISSION NURSE TO ..

... + Mr. John Allen, one of me'MISSION NURSE TO VISIT timekeepers, had this to say of BELFAST the jellyfish: “The net did not s { cilidi work. So many jellyfish became ' entangled in it that it would have taken a steamboat to have nulled African villag; built ...

Published: Monday 15 September 1958
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 187 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

English coast towns iss

... the jellyfish were first discovered on Tuesday, Eastbourne and Bexhill gangs of men searched the beaches for them, bathers and paddlers were ‘warned to be on the lookout and people advised to keep their }chlldren and pets away from the jellyfish. . The ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1957
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BOY, 6, DROWNED

... BOY, 6, DROWNED Jellyfish stings caused panic Jellyfish stings, causing great pain, and then panic, contributed to the death from drowning of a boy, aged six years, said the coroner, Mr. F. C. Sheppard, at an inquest at Camber, near Rye, Sussex, last ...

Published: Wednesday 24 August 1955
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Angler Fish

... the Angler living fish.— E. G. Jolly-Fiahes. Jelly-Fishes often are fonnd in summer time the sands, and first sight they appear like large masses of jellv. Boys are in the habit when they find Jelly-Fishes the sands smash them with stones to smaller pieces ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1913
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... water contained inside ts forced out and the Jet pushes the jellyfish upwards. as they relax the bell dilates and It sinks again. the suspended tentacles rising and falling with the motion, Jellyfish propel themselves in this fashion In a ring of bright water ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1976
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 486 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

KILLED BY JELLY FISH

... however, was found that had been drowned after being paralysed by giant Portuguese Mon of War, type jelly-fish is found along the Queensland coast. These jelly-fish often have tentacles to 12 feet long and their sting is capable of causing temnorary paralysis ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1935
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Public ownership

... rents. Recalling his description of the Government as a jellyfish, Mr. Wamock said that one member of the Government had stated that jellyfish could sting. I agree,” he remarked, ''that this jellyfish Government is stinging the people of Belfast to the extent ...

Published: Friday 29 June 1956
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MINUTE KILLER

... sting of the peanut-sized Irukandji jellyfish. Richard Graham Jordan, 58, from Driffield in Yorkshire, was travelling in Australia with his wife Jean. Mr Jordan brushed against the tiny yet extremely poisonous jellyfish while swimming near Hamiiton Island ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

RESPECT

... respect. She knew it was bitterly cold but was prepared for that, while she hoped the giant jellyfish, known as Portugese Men-o'.llVar were in the Channel. These jellyfish will only be in the Channel if the water is warm enough. she explained. The arrangements ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1960
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 10 | Tags: none