Blue glow ocean in Cairns from cairns.com.au
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Uploaded by CairnsPost on Mar 27, 2008
An eerie iridescence has lit up Marlin Marina but the cause of the glow-in-the-dark phenomenon is not supernatural. The scene usually reserved for the deep looks like an underwater glowstick and has been linked to the bioluminescence of plankton being carried in an algal bloom. Awesome images taken by The Cairns Post Chief Photographer, Marc McCormack.
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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!
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It's plankton, Thongy. That's not bad is it? You're not a hippy are ya mate?
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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 !!
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@antitheist666wes You can grow your own in a jar - not quite as spectacular but a bit of fun!
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i saw them once off a quiet beach at south stradbroke island was awesome
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is there radiation in there?!
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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.
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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
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This, is FUCKING AMAZING.
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wow puerto rico has green instead of blue, thats amazing
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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
antitheist666wes 2 months ago
@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.
CairnsPost 2 months ago