Overview
- Several specimens found on the Port Talbot shoreline triggered a live public alert from the local Coastguard.
- Beach visitors are told to avoid contact entirely because detached or dead tentacles can still deliver painful stings.
- Officials say they will not remove the organisms from the beach, expecting tides to carry them back out to sea.
- Lifeguards were scheduled to patrol Aberavon Beach over the weekend and the public is asked to report further sightings to HM Coastguard.
- The alert follows a recent rise in Portuguese Man O’ War reports around Wales, including Pembrokeshire, Gwynedd and Anglesey.