16 Aug, 2024 @ 21:29
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Jellyfish warning in southern Spain: Almost 100 swimmers are stung off popular tourist beach

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Alert for high concentration of jellyfish in Costa del Sol’s Torremolinos and Marbella

ALMOST 100 swimmers have been stung by jellyfish off a popular tourist beach in southern Spain this week.

The sea creatures tend to be more active in high temperatures as they are attracted by warmer waters.

The high number of stings have been recorded on Playa de Victoria in Cadiz, on the increasingly popular Costa de la Luz.

There were 20 people affected on Thursday and a further 72 last Sunday, giving a total of at least 92.

The City Council was forced to twice raise a specially-designated jellyfish warning flag, both in Playa de Victoria and Santa Maria del Mar.

The flags mean swimmers should be on alert for jellyfish in the water.

Anyone who is stung is advised to seek help from nearby lifeguards.

Cadiz has been recording temperatures will in the 30s all this week.

The barrel and white-spotted jellyfish are the most common to be found off Cadiz.

While their stings can be painful and cause an irritant rash, they are not life-threatening.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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