"Milky Sea": Mysterious Ocean Glow.

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

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

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

   Maybe it was something on the lens...

3. 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.

4. Jon
   May 8th, 2006 at 11:39 pm

   Looks like one of those Invasion creatures to me

5. ramona
   May 9th, 2006 at 2:03 pm

   why does the satellite image have political borders?

6. Alex
   May 9th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

   It must be a computer-generated overlay.

7. 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.

8. 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 ...

9. Chemz
   July 16th, 2006 at 10:04 am

   It is godzilla have you never seen the film

10. 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.

11. Fred Fitzgerald
    May 19th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    u deserve 2 fall in a hole...it is avbiously the alge doing something HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

12. ray
    September 17th, 2008 at 7:38 am

    Just letting yall know I read reports on some other sites that the GLOW report was backed up by several fishing boats who said they saw it all around them and have no idea what it is. They also said that it has happened before.
    So, it isn't a satellite blip or "something on the lenses" as suggested by some.

    I think someone dumped an oversupply of Glowworms (that toy from the 80's).

13. Abby
    July 4th, 2009 at 6:56 am

    i think this is an unknown phenomenon which needs to be explored and answered, and not just another unsolved mystery........ of Planet Earth

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT