This isn’t really a diving story, but I thought it was related enough to share. I was with some friends on a fishing trip to San Jose del Cabo which is just north of Cabo San Lucas. We were going after tuna and dorado primarily. We started off early in the am one day and as it pretty much the case all year around, it was hotter than blazes and we had pretty much exhausted our supply of drinks in the cooler. I was looking for a way to cool off and decided that since we were stopped it would be a good time to go for a swim.
So, I took off my shirt and ditched my flip flops. I then proceeded to the back of the boat to jump off the swim deck. As I was just about to jump, I hear the loudest scream from a man that I think I had ever heard as he is grabbing me by the shorts, he exclaims, “NO GRINGO, NO” …if you jump you will die!!! I am thinking to myself, what the heck is this dude talking about and then his teenage son comes over a calmly explains that their are literally millions of Portuguese Man o’ War which just bloomed/hatched and that with so many in the water, I would surely get killed if I jumped in. Holy Schnikes! ….almost jumping to my own death wasn’t something I was planning on doing that day, so I immediately got back into the main deck of the boat and thanked them for saving my life. I did look more closely into the water and they were right…as far as I could see there were these tiny jelly-fish with those tell tale dreadlocks. That is when the captain broke out his secret stash of tequila and beer….and I was mucho gracias for that.
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