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The man had been fishing off the deck of the bulk carrier while waiting to collect coal off Abbott Point, north of Bowen, when it is believed he was splashed with water carrying the irukandji jellyfish.
In December, the notorious box jellyfish stung a 10-year-old girl swimming in a river 23 kilometres inland, north of Gladstone, while Brisbane holidaymaker Clinton Scott dived face first into the tenticles of an irukandji in the Whitsundays.
The winner of Tourism Queensland's "Best Job in the World" contest, Ben Southall, was also stung by a fingernail-size irukandji jellyfish while jetskiing off Hamilton Island on December 30.
Dr Lisa Gershwin, touted as the world's only jellyfish taxonomist, or species classifier, said the prevalence of marine stingers was the result of an expected cyclical jellyfish bloom.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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