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Beautiful Beach Glows by Bioluminescent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTCB_p3slY ^ | N/A | Staff

Posted on 09/25/2016 12:08:00 PM PDT by V K Lee

Bioluminescent waves in San Diego, Red Tide Blue Waves, Alien footsteps on beach, Red Tide Surfing


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: glowing; marinebiology; science; water
Sparkling waters exist around the world. Phosphorescent plankton does amazing things in water; appearing to be stars in a night sky.
1 posted on 09/25/2016 12:08:00 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: V K Lee

Global warming is causing stress on planktons as their natural habitat is damaged by industrial pollutants from frack wells and the incandescent lightbulbs cause the coal plants to burn hotter, which causes cows to eat Monsato enhineered heat resistant flatulant corn, which causes Global warming in the first place. It’s a doozy!


2 posted on 09/25/2016 12:17:05 PM PDT by sagar
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To: V K Lee

I have been out many times it is amazing your wake comes alive


3 posted on 09/25/2016 12:22:20 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: V K Lee
Phosphorescent plankton does amazing things in water; appearing to be stars in a night sky.

Back in the '30s, my dad was in the merchant marine and had tons of weird tales.

He said that one night, in the Indian Ocean, the lookout reported "strange lights in the water". There, across what seemed like miles of open ocean, there were these light rays, spinning like spokes of a wheel, strobing across the ocean, with his ship being at the rim.

They figured it was that plankton reacting to the throb of the engines. Years later I was reading about USOs and the claim was made that those lights were from an alien craft.

4 posted on 09/25/2016 12:42:21 PM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: al baby

I’ve seen it on the Outer Banks often; it has a greener color there...


5 posted on 09/25/2016 12:47:29 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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I first discovered this phenomenon as an ordinary seaman on an oil tanker going from Richmond, California to Portland, Oregon. I stood watch on the bridge at night and as the bow of the ship cut through the water, the water would light up. I thought it was amazing and really beautiful.


6 posted on 09/25/2016 12:51:17 PM PDT by Jim W N
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It was probably the fall of 1970, we were by the surf in Huntington Beach with friends when this happened. At the same time a rocket was launched from Vandenberg. It was blazingly awesome.


7 posted on 09/25/2016 1:00:46 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Actually, these little glowing plankton are the intergalactic Borg’s Earth Watchers getting ready to pick up their advence sabotage agent Obama for his return trip to the Borg invasion fleet’s Uranus HQ.


8 posted on 09/25/2016 1:18:35 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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I used to love going into the surf at night on OBX to see this, it really is sort of magical, straight out of Disney.

Then, I came to understand just how very stupid it is to go into the ocean in even low light, let alone after dark, due to greatly increased risk of shark attack.

On top of that, sharks have been shown to use the bioluminescence for locating prey.

So, it was fun, but I won’t be doing that again.


9 posted on 09/25/2016 1:23:20 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Jamestown1630

It is more green on OBX than this. Wonder why, different species of plankton?

Never thought of walking through the wash at the tide line to see it, I always got in the water. You can see it in the waves, too.


10 posted on 09/25/2016 1:26:55 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Yes, I used to see it in the waves as they crested and crashed.
I tried keeping it in a glass in the house, but it dies; and has to be disturbed to light-up.

I guess there are many different kinds, in different places or under different conditions.


11 posted on 09/25/2016 1:30:40 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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That red tide on the shore can make it stink to high heaven.


12 posted on 09/25/2016 1:39:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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Actually, these little glowing plankton are the intergalactic Borg’s Earth Watchers getting ready to pick up their advence sabotage agent Obama for his return trip to the Borg invasion fleet’s Uranus HQ.

I knew it. It's just as I suspected.

13 posted on 09/25/2016 1:49:24 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: doorgunner69

Just like Hillarys pant suit late monday evening


14 posted on 09/25/2016 1:57:18 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: sagar

This just in and microagresssion seems to make them sad


15 posted on 09/25/2016 1:58:36 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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Black, women, and LGBTQPB planktons suffer the worst from racism, sexism, Islamaphobia, and hostile work environment.


16 posted on 09/25/2016 2:07:20 PM PDT by sagar
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To: al baby

We used to call it “fire in the water” in the NY Bight


17 posted on 09/25/2016 2:35:37 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: V K Lee

That’s AWESOME.....


18 posted on 09/25/2016 2:52:48 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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