"Milky Sea": Mysterious Ocean Glow.

• Miss Cellania
  May 8th, 2006 at 6:43 am

  Obviously, a secret underwater nuclear reactor. Its the elusive weapons of mass destruction!

• Tom from Europe
  May 8th, 2006 at 3:19 pm

  Maybe it was something on the lens…

• Sahan
  May 8th, 2006 at 7:07 pm

  I remember reading about this some time ago. Taken from
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_seas :

  Milky seas is a condition on the open ocean where large areas of seawater (up to 6,000 square miles) are filled with bioluminescent bacteria, causing the ocean to uniformly glow an eerie blue at night…

  … conclusions were that the effect was caused by the bacteria Vibrio harveyi.

• Jon
  May 8th, 2006 at 11:39 pm

  Looks like one of those Invasion creatures to me

• ramona
  May 9th, 2006 at 2:03 pm

  why does the satellite image have political borders?

• Alex
  May 9th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

  It must be a computer-generated overlay.

• Mikey
  May 10th, 2006 at 5:18 am

  It’s a damn nob stain from one of those horny scientist dudes. Saw the telescope and prematurly ejaculated.

  Otherwise a massive congragation of plankton that glows in the dark.

• Fab
  May 11th, 2006 at 8:28 pm

  political borders ARE visible from space you know!

  In other news, since they are debating over the cause, nobody is really up to taking their own little boat and row to the spot to see it first hand …

• Chemz
  July 16th, 2006 at 10:04 am

  It is godzilla have you never seen the film

• joel
  December 6th, 2006 at 12:24 pm

  i witnessed the same type of phenomenon. when i was 17 i went to visit some friends, in sitka alaska.
  they owned a fishing boat, and we were out halibut fishing. then they decided to take me out to this island way out in the ocean. i have no idea how far out it was, for i got a bit sea sick and had to go lie down for awhile. anyhow we got there in the late evening. and while we were setting up camp in the three sided cabin, shayne called me back down to the shore. he said, “check this out”, and as he would run his hand through the water, it would glow very brightly, so i did it, and as you disrupt the water, it would glow, and if you scooped up a handfull of water it would sparkle, not like reflections either, for that was my first thought, but it would dance in your hands, like little fire flies in the water.
  so we did what any adolecents would do. we started the boat back up, and shut off all the lights and drove around, all you could see was the glow of the wake. very awesome!! i also got it on tape, but cannot find the tape, wich sucks cause i’m speaking to my daughters class, on alaska(reason being i work up there in a mine) and would love to show them that tape, cause i also caught a bald eagle swooping down and snatching a fish, and a humpback whale that surfaced right beside the boat. so close that when it blew out its blowhole it misted us, and pee-euw.
  anyway just thought i’d share. i sure am gratefull to have seen what i saw. esspecially now that i know how rare it is. i cant believe that they dont know what causes the ocean to glow, how do i explain it to a classroom full of inquisitive minds, without sounding like a fool? oh well, perhaps they’ll just like the story, and if a fool is what i’m to be, then so be it.

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