St. Elmo's fire on water near Amsterdam, Holland

[Mendoza1141981]

St. Elmo's Fire or bioluminescent bacteria; either way it's wicked cool!

[creativeinventor]

Chuck Norris farting

[Stillwater900]

Thats not St. Elmo's Fire, its bioluminscent bacteria

[xXGreenLegendRanXx]

I think I heard a turkey gobbling towards the end of the video..now I am hungry for some turkey day dinner!

[goinghomesomeday1]

This looks like the wash from the bulbus.

[FascistFemale]

This isn't St. Elmo's fire, but is still neat.

[rawimpact]

was this recorded with a pea?

[SynForce]

you can only see elmo's fire when it's in friction with certain material. as in a plane with the speed and material components on the outer layer of the plane it'll lit up quite a bit. but on water? i don't see how volcanic ash going over water can give a blue light effect

[robinkok]

at least we finally have a video that looks remotely like St Elmo's, rather than just static

[GPenn09]

If it was St. Elmo's fire it would have been all up over this guy filming since he's presumably above sea level

[silverwolf6970]

no matter what it is ..still beautiful and cool video :)

[zachtac]

yeah @Csight is right its bacteria in the water that reacts when disturbed its very rare but it does happen

[lukewalter8987]

@juliusjasa ever read deception point by dan brown?

[Csight]

This isn't St. Elmo's fire, this is bioluminesencing bacteria in the water.

[vk45de]

Now that looks real. Surprised there aren't more views.

[oswaldo6966]

@vk45de that is real, I only had shitty mobile phone camera, so the quality is very poor... :/ I don't think u can see these st.Elmo's fires so often on water, so maybe that explains the lack of other videos...

[vk45de]

@oswaldo6966 Yeah. Well you still did good. I think yours is the ONLY real vid I've seen. Thanx

[juliusjasa]

@oswaldo6966 Really cool video! But it is not St. Elmo's fire but rather a sort of glow in the dark plankton called Noctiluca scintillans @ wikipedia

You can see the glow brightest at crest of the wave beacuse these plankton emit light when they are hit.

[lovemynation247]

@oswaldo6966 That is not st elmos fire. That is from biolumininescent plankton. Ships screws can also turn this up at sea or often times the churning of surf. We get this all the time on the california coast.