• Question: are you scared of portugeuse man of war fishes??? i would be have you seen one before. are they scary. they look scaryh. are you scared?

    Asked by georgieuplandsbabz to Ozge, Glo, Dave, Clare, Sean on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Gloeta Massie

      Gloeta Massie answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      They are all over the beaches down by where my family lives – so – no – I don’t find them that scary. I would if I were IN the water and one bobbed by though. OUCH!

    • Photo: Clare Woulds

      Clare Woulds answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      I’d be pretty scared to swim if someone told me they were around.

    • Photo: Dave Sproson

      Dave Sproson answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      I think I’ve seen one from a boat once, but never while I’ve been in the water. I think I be pretty scared if I was in the water with one! From a safe distance, I think they’re quite beautiful, in a jellyfishy kind of a way!

    • Photo: Sean Clement

      Sean Clement answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Haha. My irrational fear (everyone has one) is of Jellyfish. So you imagine how I feel about Man o’ Wars! In all seriousness thought, I can imagine that, looking at the underwater, they would look quite beautiful…

    • Photo: Ozge Ozkaya

      Ozge Ozkaya answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I must admit that I didnt even know what a Portuguese Man o’ War was! (Therefore I wasnt scared-how can you be scared of something you don’t know about right) But I looked it up and found out that it isnt even a single organism but a colonial organism made up of many individuals called zooids! How cool is that. I also found out that it is venemous and that the sting hurts, so now I am not scared but I will know to avoid it if I saw one, so you see the more you know about something the less you are scared! So could we say that fear is a state between not knowing at all and knowing enough??

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