Marine biologists have come up with a plan to curb a problem involving jellyfish, which are stinging swimmers along the Jersey Shore.
"If the tail of the stinging jellyfish goes across your face... you go numb... It's really irritating," said Carl Mattocks, President of the Berkeley Township Underwater Search and Rescue.
"We'll use a specially adapted commercial pressure washer, which allows us to, underwater, scrub the bottom of the bulkheads and go underneath the floating docks," Mattocks said. The effort started in 2021 thanks to a $600,000 grant partially funded by the State Department of Environmental Protection.
He says waterfront development led to a rise in the jellyfish the last several years. He came up with the idea to scrub them away.
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