Bioluminescent Phosphorescence
We were based out of San Carlos on a July visit to the Cortez. The old
Miramar hotel had a large thatch covered palapa on Bacochibampo beach
just out of Guaymas that featured good drinks and mariachi music 'til
the wee hours of the morning. We dinked over to Bacochibampo in the late
afternoon for dinner, drinks, and a few hours of good conversation after
a busy day of diving.
Time seemed to slip by. It was about 10 PM when, drawn by the sound of
the surf gently lapping on shore, I stepped off the palapa's large
concrete floor to walk that sand beach on this moonless night. As I
approached the shore with the sound of mariachi music playing in the
distance, the scene seemed magical. The bioluminescence of those small
waves breaking on shore was surrealistic and illuminated the area with a
faint green glow. I must have walked two miles on the beach that
evening. I'd seen this glow before and since, but never with so much
intensity.
Returning the 10 miles to San Carlos in the evening was also an
unforgettable experience. Senses were raised as we skimmed across the
clear warm waters of the bay. Forward, the surface was not visible, you
saw stars, dim lights from the distant shore, and a three dimensional
sea with bioluminescent waters highlighting schools of fish and a few
monsters at depths up to fifty feet. Astern, the wake offered a bright
glow and reassurance that you were not indeed floating *in* the sea. --
Skipper |
Skipper
Nov 17
2005
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| NOYB,
Whatever you do, don't let Kevin on your street.
I hope you live in a gated community. |
Sir
Nov 19
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| Well, he couldn't figure out the difference between "won" and "one" |
P
Nov 18
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| ;-) |
NOYB
Nov 18
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| Is that the best you can do to pick a fight? What would be the proper
way to refer to a canal adjacent to your property? |
Dan
Nov 19
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| Here's one that is just as accurate: "If I run a net through the water in the canal-that-isn't-Kevin's..." |
NOYB
Nov 19
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| Unfortunately, Kevin doesn't give up that easily. |
Dan
Nov 19
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| Skipper,
I had no idea there was a difference, I had to look it up on the web. It
appears that it was Bioluminescence, because it was the agitation from
flushing the toilet that was causing the glow. See definition below. Bioluminescence is a subset of chemiluminescence, where the light-producing
chemical reaction occurs inside an organism |
Sir
Nov 18
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| WOOOOOOOOSH |
Sammy
Nov 18
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| Damn, as that flew over my head, it was so close and fast, I got a crew
cut. and I just thought it was a typo. Silly me. |
Sir
Nov 18
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| YOUR canal? |
atl_man2
Nov 18
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| Yes, that is the canal that runs next to his home, sort of like "my street"
that runs in front of my home. |
Sir
Nov 18
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| You have to give Kevin credit. At least he didn't say "YOU'RE canal?". He
is learning. ;-) |
Nov 18
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| Been hittin' the gas again, Doc? That's pulp in the canal, not jellyfish,
and the glow is coming from that big light suspended above and behind your
head. And I have no idea just what you expect to accomplish in there with a
net, suggest you switch to drills and files. Or just call in an
Endodontist. |
RG
Nov 18
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| Ouch! That hurt more than a toothache. |
Don
Nov 18
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| My guess is he just luck out. |
Sir
Nov 18
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| Oh, yeah, We got that up here in Puget Sound and around the San Juans
big time. Sometimes, at night,it takes your mind off deadheads and
wooden submarines, for a few minutes....
JR
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JR
Nov 17
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| A few yrs ago in summer when we were camping at St. Joseph Peninsula St
PArk here in N. FL. I threw an oyster shell into the bay and thought I
musta gotten some bad shrimp and was hallucinating. Rays of light shot
out from the splash. Hands dipped in the water glowed and when smeared
on ourselves left us glowing. Footsteps left glowing imprints on the
sand. Truly bizarre. We see some of the bio light stuff most summers
but never again like that. |
dbohara
Nov 17
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| If I run a net through the water in my canal at certain times of the year,
we get the same glow in the water. I think it's jellyfish. |
NOYB
Nov 18
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| The first time I went sailing at night, and used the head, I could not
believe how the Phosphorescence would light up the toilet when flushed.
Sort of a mini fireworks show. |
Sir
Nov 18
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| Was that phosphorescence or bileluminescence? --
Skipper |
Skipper
Nov 18
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