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07-18-2010, 11:04 PM | #1 |
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Glowing Stuff in the Bay?
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07-18-2010, 11:44 PM | #2 | |
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Not the best answer available but this is what I remember from High School . The plankton in the water can create that affect when something activates them. Also some animals glow. Google bioluminescene, there are quite a bit of creatures that glow. |
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07-19-2010, 07:01 AM | #3 |
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try googling dinoflagellates .... these also are the cause of Redtide.
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07-19-2010, 09:55 AM | #4 |
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i know that bioluminescence is often caused by something disrupting the water (kayak paddle, bubbles, a boat's engine) but these guys were just chillin on the surface doing their own thing, without any disruptance. when i went over them with the inflatable, however, they stopped glowing and we could not see them anymore. seemed kinda like the opposite of bioluminescence. instead of disrupting something to make it glow, it glowed until it was disrupted.
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07-19-2010, 04:11 PM | #6 | |
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those things are out there year round, and they frequent that area with the "nuclear worms"
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07-25-2010, 11:15 AM | #7 |
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Sorry for the lare post but I just saw the question. Those are glowing polychete worms (segmented worms). Or more correctly they are the reproductive segments of polychete worms. The worms live in burrows in the bay mud and cannot leave thier holes to spawn so each year they grow extra segments that hold the sperm and eggs. They cut these segments, called epitokes, loose at certain moon phases. The epitokes rise to the surface and whirl around to mix the eggs and sperm. Why they glow I don't think any one knows. Many marine polychete reproduce this way and in some south Pacific Islands the epitokes, called palolo worms, are collected and concidered a delicacy. Mike
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07-25-2010, 02:27 PM | #8 |
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wow mike thanks for the insight. i guess i was just lucky to be out there at the right moon phase! it was the first quarter that night so that may be the right moon phase for it to happen!?! i'm definently going to bring my camera out there next time and get some shots of them if they're out there again
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