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Sightings of Giant Phantom Jellyfish in the Antarctic Ocean. Although the Stygiomedusa is not native to the arctic ocean there have been sightings of the jellyfish in the Antarctic Ocean, with the help of submersibles.

Daniel M. Moore, a marine biologist with Exeter University in the U.K. and chief scientist for Viking Cruises states that the reason Antarctic waters below 160 feet haven’t yet been well explored is that they are so difficult and expensive to reach. However, the frequent encounters with this animal are that tourism expeditions in the Antarctic are increasingly offering personal submersibles to guests to take photos. This leads to the sighting of the Giant Phantom Jellyfish hundreds of feet underwater off the coast of Antarctica’s Rongé Island. The Viking Expeditions cruise ship had shown those photos taken with the private submersibles to Daniel M. Moore.

The observations of the rarely encountered Stygiomedusa gigantea at depths of 80–280 m (the mesopelagic and lower epipelagic zones) around the Antarctic Peninsula coastal waters. The Norwegian Polar Institute, an international peer-revied journal called Polar Research, which corresponds to Daniel M. Moore of Viking Expeditions, found the Stygiomedusa Gigantea in the Antarctic Peninsula at Georges Point, Rongé Island, Fournier Bay, Anvers Island, and Paradise Harbour.

Giant Phantom jellyfish live in every ocean except for the Arctic Ocean. However, because they typically swim deep below the surface, they are hardly seen by humans. Daniel M. Moore noted that one potential explanation is that the jellyfish swim higher up to expose themselves to ultraviolet radiation, which will rid them of parasites. Another hypothesis is that the upwelling deep water found around the Antarctic continent just carries them upward.