GAMBIANS Beware..."Portuguese man o'war" aka the "Floating Terror" is here!!! # Africa #danger

I was walking along the beach from Brufurt to Senegambia and I spotted these when I approached the Bigilo area there were at least four of five including babies. "Portuguese Man O' War" also known as the "Floating Terror" have an extremely powerful sting that on rare occasions can kill. the sea creatures are Salia physalis are not true jellyfish but are colonies of hydrozoans lots of tiny marine organisms living together and behaving collectively as one animal they get their name from the balloon-like cell that floats above the water which was said to resemble a type of eighteenth-century warship beneath the surface is trailing tentacle-like polyps can stretch 160 ft the length of 5 London buses which they use to paralyze pr suceyh a small fish the polyps can detach from the body of the man-of-war and float for several days while remaining venomous brushing against one can lead to an agonizing and potentially lethal sting