GoPro footage captures mesmerizing 'smack' of jellyfish

Friday, March 8, 2019
MONTEREY BAY, CALIF. (WPVI) -- The correct name for a group of jellyfish is called a "smack"... and this is quite the smack!

Connor Gallagher, an underwater photographer, took video of the smack of jellyfish in the waters of Monterey Bay, California.
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He rigged a custom-built GoPro tow cam and pulled it behind the boat to capture the mesmerizing footage.

He says, " "My friend and I were out on his boat in the middle of the Monterey Bay, when we came across a smack that seemed simply infinite. There were jellies as far and as deep as we could. I deployed my custom-built GoPro tow cam, and pulled it behind the boat and recorded this footage."
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Gallagher posted his video to Instagram this past January, although the footage was taken in June 2017.

The footage is beautiful but comes with a price to pay: his fingers hurt when he took the camera out of the water because it was covered in jelly stingers.
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