Saw this once. Pretty incredible sight.
Hey, is the USS William Jefferson Clinton in the area...?
I think you'd see the ocean boiling and bubbling if that were the case. ;-)
Ive seen photos taken from ships on the ocean. The whole wake lights up to the horizon. Pretty awesome sight.
Secret navy weapon to illuminate the sea-floor so the silhouettes of submarines are available to determine their locations????
Monstrously giant, glowing prehistoric amphibians tunneling beneath the earth. Also responsible for global warming. See the next episode of Surface.
Why bother with mere science?
I saw this once, and immediately assumed it was bioluminescent something. I'll admit I probably though algae instead of bacteria, but it doesn't require a scientist to get to the bioluminescent part.
For the sake of clarification, I didn't see it on such a massive scale as discussed here, but I saw sporadic light on the surface of the water while sailing to Bermuda once.
Is it pollution? I guess not otherwise we`d be hearing how it is Bushs fault.
It is the mother of Nessie!:)
I was bear hunting on Afognak Island in Alaska one spring and staying on a barge in Paramanoff Bay. After a "few" beers one night I relieved myself over the edge of the barge. Suddenly, there were bright sparkles near the surface of the water all around me. The waters of the Gulf of Alaska are a little cooler than those in the Indian Ocean. Bioluminescence is probably a global phenomenon but what they are talking about here is what I saw on steroids.
First time I ever saw that and I won't ever forget it.
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Crawling chaos, underground Cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed Fallen city, living death
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches Lurking beneath the sea
Timeless sleep
Has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Not dead which eternal lie Stranger eons death may die
Drain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches, Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell.
Well, if Jules Verne was writing about the phenomenon they can't blame Bush or global warming.
Wow, really interesting. Would love to see that.
Same thing is speculated to have caused a host to appear around the sun a couple years back.
Looks like Jack Benny's ghost...Hmmmm....oh well
That area off the coast of Oman is not that far where my wife and I camped out Christmas Eve 1993 on White Beach in Oman between Quirat and Sur.
There were tiny luminescent jellyfish type "things" (about 3 mm up to a bit less than 1 cm in size) all over the water, and the waves were bright with the greenish glow (much like a glo stick).
Walking in the surf in bare feet left a coating of these things on top of our feet and toes. It was really neat. We will never forget it. They lasted up to about ten minutes after coming out of the water.