Blue glow ocean in Cairns from cairns.com.au

[RyanRami14]

3 people are allergic florescent plankton.

[nicolecassiopeia]

lago de luz~awesome!

[dangergadet]

reminds me of 'phosphorescent algae.'

[stormbouy]

used to get 2 colours up north QLD, blue and green, awsome fun watching the water coming from the prop of the outboard motor at the back of the tinny at night !!

[shadedgreyART]

i saw them once off a quiet beach at south stradbroke island was awesome

[antitheist666wes]

where an when does this happen at? ive been to beach plenty of times but only saw this once and dying to see it again

[CairnsPost]

@antitheist666wes I've spoken to the photographer who filmed it and he said it is very rare. Sadly I couldn't tell you where or when it would next occur.

If it ever happens in Cairns again I would hope that a member of the marine community would inform us, because I would love to be there to film it myself.

Beautiful isn't it.

[aquanue]

@antitheist666wes You can grow your own in a jar - not quite as spectacular but a bit of fun!

[mandystout]

@antitheist666wes If you google search "red tide bioluminescent locations", it will tell you a few places this happens and more information on it. I had a friend who saw it in Ammon, Jordan but I know it takes place in San Diego, California too. When the red tides are high, this site can be found.

[jakewars]

is there radiation in there?!

[HwarangXia]

Article was published today scientist finally saying they have found the cause.

Whats really scary is when it happens as far as the eye can see and is already visible. Its like freaking aliens invasion movie. Many people have never even herd or seen this.

[dvashaun]

the waves at huntington beach california were glowing blue tonight.never seen that before .so i youtubed it and here i am.thanks for the vid cool shit.is it common in so cal

[geded12]

This, is FUCKING AMAZING.

[BoyChibi]

wow puerto rico has green instead of blue, thats amazing

[jNofdog]

Those are Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates :)... or Plankton :D

[SirezX]

I could do that ALL frikin night and sit there and be quite amazed...funny how simple bio organism reactions can awe people..

[samuel408]

Wait....what if you drink it? Will you have the ability to glow blue in the dark too?

[Ohke]

Thanks for good Video...

' Noctiluca Scintillans ', commonly known as the Sea Sparkle.

Published as ' Noctiluca Miliaris ', is a free-living non-parasitic marine-dwelling species of Dinoflagellate that exhibits bioluminescence.

It can be bioluminescent when disturbed, as are various other Dinoflagellates, and large blooms can sometimes be seen as flickering lights on the ocean.

[Kansutachi]

i would just jump in the water and splash around like crazy!

[HeavenlyAngyles]

My cousin lives in NZ and went swimming in phosphorous water, she said it's liek swimming in fairy dust.

[georgiakelsey]

I JUST SAW THIS IN WAIKAWA BAY, PICTON, NEW ZEALAND! i really wanted to go swimming in it! it was so cool! (i would of gone swimming cos it was really warm but i dont like swimming in the dark)

[Korn704]

amazing...

[GunZenBomZ]

dinoflagellates, a story I heard once regarding vietnam was that USA started shooting because they got scared it was a secret Vietnamese weapon.

[GunZenBomZ]

dinoflagellates

[gar3th90]

if you went swimming in this would there be fear of shark attack or is there dangerous sharks were that was shot?

[randy7027]

Thats pretty fascinating, seems like something you'd see on avatar. 

[REMlNGTON]

Why does it only luminate when disturbed?

[g9g9g9]

can you swim in it safely?

[bichlover]

ive swam in it before in the glenelg river in victoria, nothing happened too us. i would love to do it again.

[TenteixSaigo]

@g9g9g9 Yes. It's just natural ocean life.

[vijil]

@g9g9g9 yes, I did just last night :)

[XxKuzaxX]

Is this like that thing from SpongeBob?

[tobiasjhn]

This is really cool! You should check out my Bioluminescence video from Hong Kong, we got them to glow really bright by throwing a huge rock in the water!

[Ragamuffyn]

I swam in sea water with bioluminescent plankton once. It's feels magical to see the water around you light up as you move.

[ironman052992]

i can only imagine how hard it would be for an invading nation to be stealthy there lol

[Down2bRomance]

those are the planktons. i saw them at san juan while kayaking in the night. i kept bumping into trees lol

[GaikovoyGleb]

that is so super i vent to swim at 1.30 night and when you go swim it glow over you and on you its just so amaizing 

[Bipolaric]

better than fireworks

[BlacklitFloater]

It's like Avatar!

[WestleyThe]

i looked this up because i saw it last night and i needed too proove to my brother that im not crazy

[Packspoet]

its beautiful... i have seen it green but never blue... its amazing :)

[batwingxi]

i saw this at the beach last night! it was amazing

[SanFisVomitosis]

DINOFLAGELADOS :)

[schmatzefein]

that's it. love it :D. it's one of nature's best things.

[phw8558]

These organisms are called dinoflagellates. The glowing is a defense mechanism against the smaller fish who eat them. They glow at night because thats when the larger fish feed on the smaller fish.

[ANNABANANA2095]

wow this is beautiful (:

[snakegaer]

this is amazing

i saw it today while i was walking near the beach

what is this thing called? is it rare?... i would like to know more...

[jconde87]

plankton need natural light

[santacruzjen]

I live in Monterey Bay between Santa Cruz and Monterey and saw something like this last night in the breaking waves. It was so beautiful!

[PookiePorn]

Same thing happens in a place called Patonga.

Absolutely AMAzZING

[ShystyMcShysterson2]

I used to live on a beach in Tassie and my friends and I would sit and watch them come in on the waves all night. The ones near my place were more green, and light up like little stars around your feet when you tread near them.

It's magical.

[sdflksdfkfh]

Who cares?

[99hesoe]

Cool... Scary if you jump in and had no idea what it was... But cool...

[alexandersydney]

the fist time i saw them i was diving at night and thought my glove was falling apart then i realized i was swimming through them and lighting them up like stars.

it truly shows the beauty of the ocean and that the "ocean" is like one giant organism made up of many others.

I hope we never destroy it.

[Sparky282828]

beautiful! wow. i wish 2 c this someday!

[doubleas2380]

Reminds me of "The Beach"

[lolltaylor]

My saltwater lake connected to the gulf behind my condo lights up a fluorescent green at night

[j3nnyfer21]

i went swimming in Phosphorus the other night, we lucked out on seeing it, such a cool sight, i went swimming and my whole body was glowing green and sparkling blue :) its almost hard to believe that it is real until you see it yourself

[ge0rgeL1986]

i saw those in green too. i was swimming and when i moved my hands or my body in the water those beautiful creatures started to glow

[icandy9394]

Dang people don't know what they're talking about. This is bioluminescent plankton which is a dinoflagellate which moves with 2 flagella and is photosynthetic, reproduces mostly asexually, and glows when it is disturbed. The glow is caused by a reaction of luciferins by a catalyst called luciferase which makes energy, food, and light. It is luminescent not phosphorescent or fluorescent. These two are like glow in the dark toys that have to absorb energy to release light. Get your stuff straight.

[benjamminn20]

does the plankthon have to be exposed to light(natueral/artificial light)?

[blyndrotor]

Nope. It lights up when agitated.

Night surfing in this stuff is unbelievable.

The prop of a boat makes for great effect to.

It is amazing to see but first hannd is even better.

[Shyburn]

No, this is chemical reaction(Called Luciferine-Luciferase reaction, i guess). Planktons do this when they feel threatened or in danger.

[cleansocks]

the glow comes from dinoflagellates which produce the light when disturbed. it is bioluminescence, so (like lightning bugs) they don't need to be exposed to light. I think, though, that only 20% of the ocean's species bioluminesce, most of which live very far down.

[sriddhaPath]

its not a matter of this aglae having to be exposed to light so much as understanding that when they light up, its a stress mechanism..they react to 'stress' by lighting up..now this stress can be anything as to a 'disturbance' as shown in this video..im doing my science fair project on what conditions exactly are they more prone to.you know..for them to 'light up'..ill keep you posted if you want..? its pretty obvious that the last water thrown into the water was 'heavier'..most brightest rxn.

[Verradonairun]

no, it lights on it's own. :) it's a biochemical process that emits light.

[TenteixSaigo]

@benjamminn20 no, the reaction for bioluminescence is chemical, and occurs within the organism. It isn't like a glow in the dark sticker that needs to absorb light first.

[Screechingballs]

AWESOME

[reelity]

Thanks for the video. Can you bring that to California? We just have pollution here. Could use a bit of radioactive blue space dust on our beach now and then! Very beautiful!

[marilynrolonrivera]

Beautifull, what is the name of that microorganism?

[MyownbreW]

gods handy work

[Shazloveshomenaway]

I went for a swim in the sea at ponui island, New Zealand at like 1 in the morning, it was sooo amazing to see the sea sparkle when i trickled my hands through the water!!Go bioluminescent plankton!!! i should have got a jar and kept some!! lol

[timefrog]

putting this on my things-to-see-before-I-die list right next to the aurora borealis.

[cleocatra]

Dude, that's amazing.

[andreslov4]

really amazing work

i enjoyed it from the explanation of the works in indestructables until the end

really would like to know more

in a mean time,....

cheers!!!

[BlinkinFirefly]

I - AM -AH- MAAAAAAAAZED!!!!!

[Staccato26]

Ahh this is called: Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is the light produced by a chemical reaction that occurs in an organism. It occurs at all depths in the ocean, but is most commonly observed at the surface. Bioluminescence is the only source of light in the deep ocean where sunlight does not penetrate. Amazingly, about ninety percent of the organisms that live in the ocean have the capability to produce light.

[Staccato26]

Interesting vid!

I've seen this here too, commonly green in colour.

It is a natural chemical known a Phosphorus which emits a glow when it reacts with other chemicals.. I think.

[shadowdevil666]

nope wrong...the 'things' responsible for this are little organisms similar to plankton that emits ,either a blue or a green light ,when disturbed it's called bioluminescence and all that is possible because of the photoactive proteins in those creaatures

[mikess]

they are called DINOFLAGELLATES...

these organisms are also very useful when cuttlefish hunts its prey during the night.

[SVNsoldier]

@shadowdevil666 They are called dinoflagellates which are unicellular protists that belong to the alveolates group

[jamescao123]

In tasmania they have that "condition"

[WhiteMagneticMirror]

I used to live in Tasmania, Australia and sometimes we had the same thing at our beach! Sometimes it has a green tinge to it.

The coolest thing is walking on the wet sand near the waterline and leaving neon blue footprints!

No, its not nuclear waste, it's fluorescent plankton!

[benjsy]

@WhiteMagneticMirror phyto plankton?

[efreit01]

i first discovered this when i went walking at floreat beach (in WA) at night. what looked to be grains of sand flared up in a bright blue flash when we stepped near them. it's amazing!

[moxee33]

Thats one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen!!!

[thewornoutthong]

Thank your local water treatment plant for this. They are the arseholes that are responsable. You got no hope in catching a fish when its like that as well.

[smeary10]

It's plankton, Thongy. That's not bad is it? You're not a hippy are ya mate?

[quillaja]

though i'll agree that thongy probably doesn't know what he talking about--because he can't spell--he might actually have a point. researching wikipedia tells me that these plankton are of the same general group (phylum in this case) as the ones which cause "red tide" in the gulf of mexico which is a result of excess nutrients in the water--called eutrophication. sewage plants could cause this too, but they usually are carefully monitored by the gov's environmental agencies. so that's unlikely.

[dervogenos]

This is entirely natural, it's bioluminescent plankton....

[sbredflag]

@thewornoutthong uh no, it's actually the things living in water that're doing it. Protists are 100% all natural. Research, or at least think a little before you make blatant claims.

[TenteixSaigo]

@thewornoutthong Are you a hippie, bud? This is all natural phenomina, nothing industirial caused this.

[Mittopotahis]

I'd love to see it rain.

[shinsongjae]

That's great!! Wow, then the shining water is relecting moon's light?

[Simirial]

I've experienced this off the coast of Savannh Georgia, also. but we jumped in and waved our arms and legs around. It was trippy.

[hotchicksinpanties]

what was being thrown into the water to make the plankton phosphor blue like that?

[werrongboy]

It's just plain water. It's not a chemical reaction, just anything that agitates the plankton-enriched water makes it grow. A person jumping in would have the same effect. It's great to go diving in this stuff.

[TenteixSaigo]

@hotchicksinpanties It's nothing special. You can do it with anything. Thing is, the waves made by throwing the stuff in made the noctilucales more active, and therefore glow.

[10mintwo]

this video makes me happy to be alive in a universe where such phenomena are possible.

[shinviroz]

what if you peed in the water haha

[fholiday]

blue and yellow make... lmao

[sicklygirl]

thanks i think this is the best video of these planktons.

[sicklygirl]

i have to see that at least once in my lifetime like firsthand.

[jjshen83]

what is that stuff

[mtlhabs11]

awesome

[maralily]

We have this in Panama too. When you walk on some beaches, you leave a brief blue glowing footprint.

[monkeysplayingsocc]

nice...algae bloom

[sastapleton]

very pretty.