Jonathan’s Story
Have you seen a Velella velella like the one above? Photo credit: Velella velella by Daniel Neal (License)
Name: Jonathan
Age: 50
Occupation: Oceanographer
From: Southport
Object: Velella
Story: When I was about 11 I went on a ship with my family (my father was in the merchant navy). On passage across the Pacific we spent a few days moving through huge swarms of Velella – small jellyfish-like things, thousands and thousands of them on the sea surface. We managed to catch some with a bucket (not easy from a large ship doing 15 knots). I sketched them and measured them, and now I study the physics and biology of the ocean.