By Vurdlak on July 5, 2006, with 129 Comments
I’m almost certain, there are no jellyfishes big as this one, in the picture below. Never the less, I can’t seem to figure out how this illusion took place. It would be easy if the scuba diver was behind, and the jellyfish was just infront of the camera, then “relative sizes illusion” would be possible. However, it seems that the diver is infront of the jellyfish (or is he?). Can someone help me solve this?
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That’s a real jelly. And it’s not shopped either. Jellyfish of tht size exist and a few have been documented, however I don’t expect them to be all over the Internet due to some people’s willinglessness to believe in what is real.
Well, the jellyfish is real–but not really that big. It’s not an illusion, it’s photoshopped. :) There ARE enormous jellyfish, but none so big as this. What I believe some of you don’t realize is just how AMAZING some artists are with nothing but two pictures and photoshop.
Let me also explain this: just because the jellyfish is big doesn’t mean it’s more deadly than a smaller one. The deadliest jellyfish in the world is the box jellyfish and can be smaller than the human eye can perceive unaided.
I took a class at school today taught by the guy who took this photo. He says it is very real.
Solved:
Check this image: http://diverssite.com/billeder/diverssiteintern/giant_jellyfish.jpg
Photoshopped!
That last post is the photo shopped one. You can clearly see the smear marks from where the the diver was. Even if this particular photo was forced perspective, there are lots of different photos on the internet of the lion’s mane jellyfish which show the creature’s incredible size.
Watch some Nature of Things documentaries on the oceans. There are some incredible, almost alien creatures living down there.
dont be stupid.. you look at both pictures and can see the photoshop blurr on the one without the diver.. some of its tentacles are missing in the shape of what hes holding, the tip of the bubble stream can also be seen above the blurred patch in the “non diver” image.. someone has just been too stubborn and close minded to admit there wrong that they made one image look photoshopped while trying to erase the evidence of the diver… grow up
That diver is my dad. His name is Robert Stanley, and he was REALLY next to that jellyfish. – Lynn
I see the illusion :)… if you ake the picture larger…check what is inside the jellyfish….
look…not ake…whoops
all you have to do is google giant jellyfish and hit the images button in the top left corner to know that this has a true possibility of being a real pic
or go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180558/Pictured-The-giant-jellyfish-washed-Devon–big-make-wobbly.html and try and picture it in the ocean so it would be all sprawled out obviously not all floppy like this one, and then take into consideration that the largest documented jellyfish is The lion’s mane jellyfish it is the largest known species of jellyfish. The Arctic Lion’s mane jellyfish is one of the longest known animals and the largest recorded specimen had a bell (body) with a diameter of 2.3 m (7 feet 6 inches) and the tentacles reached 36.5 m (120 feet). It was found washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870
also see this site its kinda wicked
http://twistedsifter.com/2009/06/10-amazing-facts-about-jellyfish/
This is real I saw a documentary about giant jelly fish and this is not fake! idiots!
it might be in an aquarium and the diver is in a tank and the jelly fish is on a projetion screen behind him
it’s 100% real and there are jellyfish 100 times bigger, more people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean
Jeez guyss its clearliy a toy scuba diver placed close to the camera !8^o
is that real???? how big is that!!
thats a biggest jellyfish i’ve ever seen…
The fact that there are possibly millions of creatures out there that explorers and scientists haven’t found yet, should make people open minded when it comes to what is real and what is not. there are even still tribes in third world countries that know nothing of modern technology and when people fly over their tribe to take photos they will actually try to spear you down thinking you are a creature of threat.
ANYWAY…. here is another website that contains the same photo as above.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2501004/posts
the answer to it is just like the same as said on web itself, “sometimes its good to believe that god exists coz every answer is not found on google”
it’s the lion’s mane jellyfish the biggest one in the world… the biggest lion’s mane jellyfish has tentacles bigger than the biggest blue whale ever and it IS real
http://www.waterford-today.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=933&Itemid=10177&ed=68
Though it’s been said. To quote:
“The largest recorded specimen had a bell (body) with a diameter of 2.3 m (7 feet 6 inches) and the tentacles reached 36.5 m (120 feet).”
That one was only measurable because it washed up on the shore. They could easily grow to larger sizes.
Fun fact: Jellyfish are over 90% water.
Also, Lion’s Mane are rarely fatal. So the dude is fairly safe.
Tl;dr: The Jellyfish is real.
QED
its a real jellyfish
the diver is far away. he is not holdin any camera or othe objects. this seems like an old photo for me. so, i assume dat dis photo has a black smudge dat appears as da camera. and dat da jellyfish is close. it took me 5 minutes to come up with the answer because im a th grader i assume. it has been proven dat children tend to have ideas faster dan adults and can easily answer illusions.
im a 5th grader. i assumed dat it took me 5 mins to think of da answer because im young.
its real, this creature is found off the eastern coast of japan. i do believe this is the largest ever photographed but they are very large
Ugh, seriously??? OMG!!
dis photograph looks old and in my knowledge, old pics sometimes get black spots. da “camera” da diver is “holding” is actually one of da dots im talkin about. da diver is far away and da jelly fish(normal size) is very close to us appearing to be a giant.
I have seen this image before. It is definitely real. The diver is no further away than the jellyfish, and the camera is just a camera.
Isn’t nature amazing? (but kinda freaky)
its not real…its called photoshop der…people play pranks like this all the time…jesica..learn how to spell “the”
It’s a real jellyfish! It’s call the Lions mane Jellyfish. they can grow that big!
thats one huge jelly…! its freekin enormus!!!
……cheese…..
must be jolly fish
….cheese….
that is so huge!
Lion Jelly fish can get really big yes, google them first, they dont get THAT big though… the diver is further away then the jelly and makes the jelly look bigger then it really is. However Lion Jellies do get REALLY BIG
Although Lions Mane jellyfish can grow to huge sizes, this photo is obviously photoshopped as the colour of the light reflecting off of the diver is completely different to the light on the jelly fish
its photoshopped because…. um… yeah… the diver lost his head…
While it may be Photoshopped, this could be real if the Wiki article is to be believed. The largest specimen ever found was 6’5″ across the dome and tail of 120 feet. The diver is only in the foreground of the tail which if it were just 30-40 feet long, could place the diver much farther away from the camera than the dome of the fish.
I dunno if its helpful but only 1 foot has a flip flop thingy
i think that it is a picture of a real jelly fish with a diver pasted on with some sort of aplication.
I think it is photoshopped because, to capture the allegedly huge jelly fish, the camera would have to be placed very far away. However, sea water is not very transparent (at least in this case) and will not allow such a sharp picture to be taken from a distance.
This is a real picture.
it could be a plastic, toy diver….
that was the first thing i thought of when i saw this pic
Proof of Photoshopping, pic of just the fish
http://hoaxblog.s3.amazonaws.com/big_jellyfish.jpg
It is the exact same jellyfish.
This is PHOTOSHOP the diver has a blue line around him, it is sooooo blatently photo shop
thats a real jellyfish. its called Lion’s Man Jellyfish. biggest in the world
@Elizabeth — the photo you submitted for “proof of photoshopping” actually just looks like the diver was erased. The background is drastically different where the diver used to be.
I tend to agree, the diver was erased from the so-called proof!
The lion’s mane jellyfish can attain enormous size. In fact, the largest Lion’s Mane jellyfish is not merely the largest species of jellyfish in the world; it is the largest animal in the world. The one specimen of Lion’s Mane which was found in Massachusetts Bay in 1870 was over 7 feet in diameter and its tentacles were longer than 120 feet in length. However, the bell of the Artic Lion’s Mane is known to be able to grow up to 8 feet in diameter, and their tentacles can acquire the length of 150 feet. That is much longer than blue whale, which is generally thought to be the largest animal in the world.
Read more: http://www.jellyfishfacts.net/lions-mane-jellyfish.html#ixzz1cP3sfH21
I love jellyfish my friend and i were searching jellyfish up and i remember seeing this exact phot!!!
The lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) is the largest known species of jellyfish. Its range is confined to cold, boreal waters of the Arctic, northern Atlantic, and northern Pacific Oceans, seldom found farther south than 42°N latitude. Similar jellyfish, which may be the same species, are known to inhabit seas near Australia and New Zealand. The largest recorded specimen found, washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870, had a bell (body) with a diameter of 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) and tentacles 120 feet (37 m) long.[1]