Mr Samuel, a professional photographer based in Byron Bay says the fish was still alive and fighting to escape when he came across him.
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He was free diving off the coast of Byron Bay in northern NSW when he spotted the two creatures.
A reddit user speculated the jellyfish was in the process of paralysing the fish, while others on social media commented the fish was most likely immune to the jellyfish’s toxins and being protected from predators.
He posted the photos to his website and Instagram account. Wrote jsnforce, “Well I’m dead, but I’ma steer this translucent-ass motherf***** into a propeller before I go”.
“It’s hard to tell whether disaster has just struck, or whether the fish is happy to be in there”, associate professor Ian Tibbetts told Australian Geographic.
A viral photo re-posted today (June 7) to Instagram by Tim Samuel, an Australian photographer, has made this underwater drama world-famous. Dr Tibbett added that the jellyfish looked like a type of stinging jellyfish called a cubomedusan, a group which includes the box jellyfish.
Although able to maintain some control over the direction the jellyfish was going, Samuel told CNET that the fish was “unable to back itself out”. “I just stumbled upon it”. “The fish propelled the jellyfish, but wobbled around and was being thrown off course by the jellyfish, and sometimes was forced to swim in circles”.
A diver has taken this incredible photo of a fish trapped inside a jellyfish – which it then steered around the sea.
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Samuels told CNN that while it was a hard decision, he chose to not interfere and “let nature run its course”. But this situation may have gone awry for the little fish, Dr. Tibbetts suggested.
