Looking at this picture brings back memories. The closest encounter to a jellyfish besides an aquarium was in Hawaii when I went snorkeling, which by the way was probably the most frightening experience of my life. I thought it would be like what you see on the national geographic or tv where everything is so pretty and wondrous, but it was quite the opposite. I remember the boat stopped at a far distance from the shore so that we could snorkel our way there, enjoying the pretty fishies and coral...all I remember looking at in the water through the magnified goggles were scary looking fishes, eels, and just the depth of the ocean with the magnification of the goggles freaked me out. There were also sea turtles the size of 5 macbooks put together swimming next to us. All I wanted to do was get to the shore as fast as I can and the minute I did I stepped on these rocks that were covered in green stuff which at that time made me believe they would help my feet grasp on when in fact they were the most slipperiest suckers ever. I fell on my butt and it hurt. Next thing I noticed was this boy with a red face, crying while his dad tried to help him. We found out a jellyfish got on his face and left a nasty sting. OH the joy of hearing that and knowing that we still had to swim back to the boat after lunch on the island. This is where I thought it was funny and even thinking back to this day brings back laughs. After lunch, everyone was dreading to swim back in fear of the jellyfish, and we were specifically told never to swim over the coral (which was really high up in the water) because if we damage them it would take years or never to regrow, but at that point everyone was pushing, shoving, and kicking swimming right over the coral to the boat. I swam over the coral (I'm so sorry) and scraped my knee. It started to bleed and sting, but I deserved that.
      One of my biggest fear is being in the middle of the ocean for whatever reason. I'm not a very good swimmer either, and there's so many odd sea creatures/species unknown to mankind I feel like they keep mutating in there with all the pollution and climate changes. But I do let my imagination get the best of me.