BRICK — On a warm, crystal clear summer’s day, adults sprawled in beach chairs as children raced around Windward Beach — without ever actually stepping into the water.
On their stand, lifeguards presided over an empty swimming area, ringed by a net — not to keep kids inside, but an unsuccessful attempt to keep stinging jellyfish outside.
Clad in full-length wetsuits to protect themselves from jellyfish stings, field technicians Nina Sassano and Jen Barney ventured into the water to learn more. Wading three feet deep into the Metedeconk River, a major tributary of pollution and jellyfish to the bay, they slowly walked back to Windward Beach, pulling a 50-foot wide scientific collecting net packed with translucent globs of nettles.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/ar...negat-Bay-declines-further-scientists-believe
On their stand, lifeguards presided over an empty swimming area, ringed by a net — not to keep kids inside, but an unsuccessful attempt to keep stinging jellyfish outside.
Clad in full-length wetsuits to protect themselves from jellyfish stings, field technicians Nina Sassano and Jen Barney ventured into the water to learn more. Wading three feet deep into the Metedeconk River, a major tributary of pollution and jellyfish to the bay, they slowly walked back to Windward Beach, pulling a 50-foot wide scientific collecting net packed with translucent globs of nettles.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/ar...negat-Bay-declines-further-scientists-believe