Sunday, October 30, 2011

[www.keralites.net] The Lake that Glows in the Dark!

 

Swimming is supposed to give you a healthy glow, but these swimmers werent quite sure what was going on when they took a late-night dip and turned a fluorescent shade of blue.

It was like we were playing with radioactive paint, said photographer Phil Hart who snapped the bizarre sight as his friends emerged from a lake in the dark of night.

The light is created by a chemical reaction called bioluminescence, which happens when a naturally-occuring micro-organism in the water is disturbed.

These images are particularly stunning because the concentration of the micro-organism Noctiluca Scintillans was abnormally high when he took the photos at Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, Australia.








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