Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Night Surfing On An Electric Blue Bioluminescent Sea

"On the beaches of Southern California, a phytoplankton called Lingulodinium polyedrum is responsible for a spate of red tide. Massive algal blooms like this make the water ruddy during the day, but disrupting the microorganisms at night results in bursts of electric blue bioluminescence."

As found on Geekologie.com

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