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July 5, 2006 by Vurdlak  

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?


Giant Jellyfish Optical Illusion

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66 Responses
  1. Anonymous

    I find it strange that people can’t believe things that have been proven to exist. Someone mentioned that this looks “nothing like a jellyfish on WikiPedia”. Unfortunately, WikiPedia isn’t always true. Don’t always assume that things as amazing as these are always photoshopped. It looks like a jellyfish, and for all we know it’s undocumented. Very strange creatures live in the oceans of the world. Don’t forget that.

  2. Anonymous

    It looks like an optical illusion, bt I think it iz photoshoped cuz the diver’s camera/bag/box/wateva is infront of the “tenticals”, and there is no thing jellyfish THAT big, and if there was I would be friggen scared if it was a real one, cuz wat if it stung you, you would like die,! Owell, itz still quite kewl. Hahaha. Got me thinking…..

  3. Anonymous

    If you examine the picture more carefully, then you can see that the jellyfish isn’t as big as you think… yes it is big but, however, if you stretch the diver, who is about 6′ then you still have about 1′ or 2 left on the jellyfish, so analytically speaking, this picture could be real.

  4. Anonymous

    this jellyfish is actually areal jellyfish… its called the lion’s mane jellyfish, aka the BIGGEST jellyfish in the world. I should know… i am doing research on it… the biggest one found was 8′ in diameter of the bell and like 120′ long tentacles. soo it most likely is a real jellyfish picture. hate to break it to you. of course it only live in cold waters. that could be a good sign. :)

  5. Anonymous

    No the diver and the jelly fish is suppose to be seen as the same distance but really the jelly fish is alot closer than the diver.

  6. doug

    it is a real jelly fish and that thing in the water is jellyfish poo! it only looks like a diver because the water pressure at that depth has altered it’s original poo form.

  7. Anonymous

    it is obviously what doug said or a fantastic photoshop because if it is a real jelyfish not even a lunatic would get that close to it!

  8. Anonymous

    there’s bubbles above the diver

  9. Anonymous

    if you google this pic, you will find an identical image without the person on the same page.

  10. Anonymous

    Its photo shop, the scuba guy has no bubbles.

  11. Nexus

    people this could be a simple as a toy being placed near a jelly fish imo.

  12. Anonymous

    isn’t that the man of war?

  13. Anonymous

    wow…mitch is pretty wrong…uhh, the light is shining weird so all the colors look off. on myth busters a couple months ago, they were talkin about how the pix of the first moon landing were SUPPOSEDLY fakes, cuz the light and shadows were weird. HOWEVER, they figured out that the lighting from the sun was placed oddly and that the pik was genuine. i think itz just weird lighting and the pik is real :)

  14. Anonymous

    LOKE IS A NERD AND NO I CAN NOT HELP YOU

  15. Ether

    I think it’s photoshopped. To me, the “jellyfish” looks more like an uprooted mushroom of some sort. ._.

  16. Ted

    I’ll chip in to this one - yes, it is a real jellyfish. I’m no expert but I’ve read about these things in hardcopy books on marine biology.

    I’m actually a bit surprised that people are so sceptical it exists. The ocean holds some phenomenally huge lifeforms, and jellyfish are hugely varied and abundant.

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