Bioluminescence phenomenon has long eluded scientific inquiry owing to its remote and infrequent nature
Waking at 10pm, a sailor looked out from the deck of the superyacht Ganesha to see that the ocean had turned white. “There is no moon, the sea is apparently full of plankton, but the bow wave is black. It gives the impression of sailing on snow,” they wrote.
“I’d say there’s only a handful of people currently alive who have seen one. They’re just not very common – maybe up to one or two per year globally – and they’re not typically close to shore, so you have to be in the right place at the right time,” said Steven Miller, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
“It’s a really huge and kind of mysterious response in our biosphere. We’d like to know how it works, and how that might change in a changing climate,” he said. Photograph: Steven Miller, Leon Schommer and Naomi McKinnon, Australian National University, Canberra
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