Comments on: Red Tide off California Coast Creates Blue Glow

By: Andykay

Andykay — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:43:56 +0000

We went out to fish for the squid and instead ran across the red tide. It was absolutly breathtaking. I think it was the most beautiful site I’d ever seen! I felt like I was in a dream. It was so surreal.I’ll never forget it.

By: debralea

debralea — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:49:05 +0000

came to this site to see if it was possible for (as a friend said he’d seen) the grunion running in a red tide with the water floursent blue/green? my guess was no because it was three different tides of time?

By: Haydee

Haydee — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:17:03 +0000

Saw this with my kids today. It was a truly amazing sight in La Jolla Shores. The kids discovered that if they dragged their feet and fingers through the wet sand, a blue glow followed. We also discovered that about twenty feet away from the ocean where the sand was not as wet, dragging your feet on this sand still produced a blue glow. There were lots of people at the beach today observing this spectacle. Although this was a fun this to view, we heard that this is not a good sign for the ocean. This type of organism takes away oxygen from the sea therefore depriving fish from oxygen and even causing their death.

By: Deitra

Deitra — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:19:21 +0000

I saw this last night at long beach. It was amazing!!!!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:37:04 +0000

A very large part of the oceans of the world have photoactive organisms. Run a motorboat at night and watch the light form in your wake. But such an abundance as to create a red tide is just another sign of dead zones turning up in more and more regions of the world, this means death for many sea creatures, and an even slimmer sea food catch for commercial fishermen. Add to some fish being found to have radioactive traces in their body from the Japanese Nuclear plant disasters, well just gotta say we may be in trouble (humanity) in many more ways than we even suspect.

Really very shocking that Japan has not gotten a better grip of those nuclear disasters by now. So much greed in the world, dismay at the slowness of our species learning from the past. Of course there are other species that have gone extinct by overuse of their environment, usually on Islands or other remote areas where they were able to eat all of the food they required to exist on.

By: Mike Weaver

Mike Weaver — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:31:10 +0000

Is anyone else here as hungry as I am?

By: Kaseshini

Kaseshini — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:35:07 +0000

Just go to Puerto Rico. There are two lagoons that you can see it any time of the year.

By: Vee

Vee — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:18:58 +0000

I have to add seeing that for myself to my to-do-list. Looks beautiful.

By: ocmarsha

ocmarsha — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:45:53 +0000

How fascinating! I would love to be able to see that in person.