Reply to: Bio-luminescence

[Bacchus]

luminous crabs

That'd get a few raised eyebrows in the clap clinic

[d000hg]

Anybody seen this?

Some years ago we tied the boat up to a pontoon before heading up to the hotel for food and drinks and noticed that any disturbance in the water caused it to glow a bright green. I must have dropped a fortune in change watching it leave a green trail as the coins sank, truly amazing. I think the phenomenon lasted for about a week. I wound up the locals telling them it was radioactivity leaking from the nearby nuclear sub base

Apparently this is quite rare inshore so perhaps I was lucky to see this.

Yeah, quite a lot when we used to sail around Cornwall and sometimes across to France.

Most memorably we anchored in the Isles of Scilly, on a calm and pitch black night we returned to the beach to row back to the boat after dinner. Every tiny little wavelet breaking along the sand was a line of light and even the wet sand was twinking. As we rowed out in the darkness, trying to find the boat (creepy) the oars created pools of light every stroke.

After a lot of gathering of courage, I was convinced to jump in off the side of the boat - probably about 14 at the time.

Very cool.

[mudskipper]

Seen it quite a few times when doing night dives around the world. It's quite special watching your bubbles glow...

Fart in a wetsuit?

[suityou01]

That's from apollo 13.

God my brain is addled. Nurse!

[vetran]

Is that the same as when you take a piss after having two Beroccas in a day? The toilet radiates light afterwards....

you but on a really bright day??

[doodab]

Interestingly I read a story once of how a plane found it's way to the aircraft carrier at night following the wake of the ship that was lit with bio-luminescence. The plane had no lights of course and was in a lot of trouble.

That's from apollo 13.

[Moscow Mule]

Seen it quite a few times when doing night dives around the world. It's quite special watching your bubbles glow...

[suityou01]

Anybody seen this?

Some years ago we tied the boat up to a pontoon before heading up to the hotel for food and drinks and noticed that any disturbance in the water caused it to glow a bright green. I must have dropped a fortune in change watching it leave a green trail as the coins sank, truly amazing. I think the phenomenon lasted for about a week. I wound up the locals telling them it was radioactivity leaking from the nearby nuclear sub base

Apparently this is quite rare inshore so perhaps I was lucky to see this.

Interestingly I read a story once of how a plane found it's way to the aircraft carrier at night following the wake of the ship that was lit with bio-luminescence. The plane had no lights of course and was in a lot of trouble.

[mudskipper]

Went somewhere years ago (Lanzarote possibly?) where we visited a cave that had a lagoon with luminous crabs. very beautiful.

[Bacchus]

Is that the same as when you take a piss after having two Beroccas in a day? The toilet radiates light afterwards....

Yes, that's the equivalent in some parts of the country, known there as "the Northern Lights"

(c:

[Bacchus]

Anybody seen this?

Some years ago we tied the boat up to a pontoon before heading up to the hotel for food and drinks and noticed that any disturbance in the water caused it to glow a bright green. I must have dropped a fortune in change watching it leave a green trail as the coins sank, truly amazing. I think the phenomenon lasted for about a week. I wound up the locals telling them it was radioactivity leaking from the nearby nuclear sub base

Apparently this is quite rare inshore so perhaps I was lucky to see this.

I've seen it rowing back to a friend's yacht in Chichester Harbour up near Itchenor, not sure that it's that rare, but it was spectacularly beautiful - you don't need LSD when you're rowing through your own special light show on a still summer's evening!

[northernladuk]

Is that the same as when you take a piss after having two Beroccas in a day? The toilet radiates light afterwards....

[EternalOptimist]

I never saw it myself, but I read about it a lot.
I also read about oriental fishermen who went out at night with lanterns.
The fishes were attracted to the light then easily caught

for some reason the two ideas are associated in my mind

[Cliphead]

you had tied it up and were walking to the hotel?

was a poor attempt at humour though.

50 yards from a sandy beach. Alcohol was already involved.

[vetran]

On a boat?

you had tied it up and were walking to the hotel?

was a poor attempt at humour though.