Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms

Re:Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms by exhilaration on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:56AM (#28355694)

If you got a chance, Mosquito Bay on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, is full of bioluminescent microorganisms. There are canoe tours that let you experience it up close.

I hear they don't let you do it anymore, but when I went in 2007 and 2009, they let you swim in there and it was amazing. Every movement of your arm and legs left a glowing trail of light.

(They stopped allowing swimmers because that body of water is a shark nursery, and one took a bite from the leg of an unfortunate swimmer in 2011.)

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Re:Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms by sit_i_piz on Monday August 30, 2021 @01:20PM (#28358223)

Was in Vieques recently, absolutely amazing! If possible, try to plan to go when it isn't a full moon, or the sky is cloudy. Harder to see the illumination when the moon is shining bright. And you're correct they don't allow you to swim in it any longer, but they say its because it's harmful to the microorganisms, didn't mention the shark nursery.

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Re:Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms by exhilaration on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @04:07PM (#28384944)

Ha, I'm not surprised they failed mention the sharks before taking you on to the water. Here are some links:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/200227/20110818/shark-attack...

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g147326-i649-k4748070-S...

Having said that, I would swim again in that water without concern - thousands of tourists did it before and after me, what happened to that woman was just bad luck.

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Re:Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms by jjcon on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:02AM (#28355737)

Not as warm but it is also very visble at times in the straight of juan de fuca and some places in the puget sound of washington state.

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