Glowing Blue Waves Lighting Up SoCal Coastline Roll Into the South Bay (latimes.com) 43
Crashing waves emitting a flash of neon blue have lit up darkened stretches of Southern California's coastline this month, most recently making an appearance in the South Bay. From a report: The sporadic phenomenon -- sometimes called sea sparkle -- is something scientists have been studying for 120 years. It's associated with a red tide, or an algae bloom, made up of organisms called dinoflagellates. These tiny single-celled organisms are common members of the coastal plankton community that float on or near the ocean's surface and can emit bioluminescence, most commonly when they're grabbed by a predator. The light acts to startle their attacker, according to Michael Latz, a marine biologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Occasionally, the organisms are found in high concentrations, resulting in red tides and known for giving the ocean water a deep red, brown or orange hue during the day. At night, they can put on a truly spectacular show when jostled by a crashing wave or the wake of a boat. Red tides are difficult to predict, and not all of them produce bioluminescence. Scientists still aren't sure about all the factors that lead to them, Latz said.
Occasionally, the organisms are found in high concentrations, resulting in red tides and known for giving the ocean water a deep red, brown or orange hue during the day. At night, they can put on a truly spectacular show when jostled by a crashing wave or the wake of a boat. Red tides are difficult to predict, and not all of them produce bioluminescence. Scientists still aren't sure about all the factors that lead to them, Latz said.
I blame 5G (Score:4, Funny)
I don't how, or why, but in my Gut I know 5G is the cause
Bioluminescence is common underwater (Score:5, Informative)
I don't think I've been diving anywhere in the world where, if you turn off your lights on a night dive, you can't see algae glow if you kick your fins or move your hand through the water to at least some degree.
We've done a few lights off night dives where we just followed the glow in the water each time the diver in front kicked their fins and disturbed them. Jellyfish and pelagic tunicates are also a common sight in this respect, as are squid, cuttlefish, and ostracods that can also display bioluminescence.
Nonetheless, it is pretty spectacular when you get sufficient concentrations of algae crashing on the shore so as to see the waves themselves glow blue. A lot of divers don't seem to enjoy night dives, I'm not sure why; diving in the day especially on reefs is spectacular, but night dives are just otherworldly and a completely different ball game; the things that float in the water column alone are just so alien:
https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
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Come on, don't be so purposefully obtuse.
People don't like night diving because dark, scary, night sharks, not being able to see, imagination, losing the boat, etc. etc.
Obviously not much of it is rational but our modern day fear of the dark generally isn't.
I used to have to decompress at the end of long tech dives - sitting for an hour on the oxygen bar while night sets in, and you're by yourself, and you're sitting in the open ocean, and a few meters above you is a happy boat with whiskey on board, it does mess with your mind.
Re:Bioluminescence is common underwater (Score:5, Interesting)
It's not so much that, most divers I've dived with are happy to do a night dive, they just generally choose not to bother. If you're on a week or two week long liveaboard where there's 4 dives a day, 3 in the day, 1 at night, then it's not uncommon to find everyone do all 4 dives on the first day or so, but then do all 3 day dives, and only 1 or two of the 7 - 14 night dives available over the rest of the trip.
I think it's mostly just that people can't be arsed to do the 4th dive of the day if anything, but as I say I just find that surprising, because it's nearly always the most spectacular. Personally I actually often feel much more comfortable night diving, I find I'm more relaxed than ever, my air consumption is always at it's best and my dives always longest at night, I just find my heart rate slows significantly more for whatever reason on night dives, and it sets me up nicely for a good night's sleep afterwards.
Don't get me wrong, I hear what you're saying; even during day dives if you're doing a deco stop in open water, especially if there are large waves on the surface or awkward currents, it can certainly be a bit disorientating, especially if a shark comes to see what you're all about, or if a large barracuda starts staring at you like it's sat there waiting for you to fuck up so it can take a chunk out of you. Similarly there have been plenty of other circumstances where I've felt uncomfortable and a bit unnerved - strong downcurrents for example pushing you deeper and making it hard to ascend, and I've had the odd wreck dive where I've felt just a little bit too claustrophobic (despite never suffering from claustrophobia normally). Ultimately though I just feel that paying a lot of money and spending many hours travelling to get somewhere like Raja Ampat to not bother with all the night dives feels a bit like buying a Ferrari and then using it for nothing other than the 30mph max local school run - you just end up missing the best bit about it.
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Must be a bitch if you are trying to sneak around in a nuclear missile sub.
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Aliens (Score:2)
Too bad know one can see the effect (Score:2)
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Everyone has to do their part to get rid of Trump. She's doing her part. What have you done?
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Pelosi and House leadership decided not to reconvene because Covid-19 cases are still increasing in the District of Columbia.
Asked about the decision, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said during a separate news call: "We had no choice. If the Capitol physician recommends that we not come back, then we have to take that guidance in the interest of the safety of the people who work here.
"We could not take any chances," she added, noting that many people other than lawmakers work at the Capitol, such as office and custodial staff. https://www.nbcnews.com/politi... [nbcnews.com]
Dear god, the horror. She actually cares about people she interacts with, even ordinary people.
Pelosi isn't refusing "to discuss remote options." She's bound by the current House rules. Typically House reps have to be physically present to be counted as part of a quorum. There is a provision for an emergency quorum, but it takes a minimum of 4 days to before legislative action can occur once initiated. https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com] This pretty much blows away the single week that the House was planning on being away. So ironically, they'd have to meet in person in order to agree to meet remotely.
But thanks for turning this into more partisan bullshit, you're really helping.
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Trump supporters probably can't grasp sarcasm. Unless it's clearly not sarcasm and Trump says it is...
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And what effort will she put in for next time? None.
Although she does have a track record of completely ridiculous and unnecessary delays for purely partisan and political reasons like rushing through impeachment and then sitting on it for a month, failing to send it to the Senate. So really yeah you're right, she has a history of delay and incompetence. This is nothing new. Carry on.
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Dreams of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Sorry, but there's a big difference between polio and dementia.
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The key thing is that they are "People largely social distanced."... Meaning a lot do not.
Also for beaches it is the case of these germ filled kids, who will come up play with stranger kids.
Beaches are a rather social areas even with adults keeping a good distance, their kids are carrier who will spread problems.
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I'm actually worried we're doing too good a job, as the low death and infection rate means the vast majority of people here are still vulnerable to the virus. New York, for all the hardships it's endured, will largely be immune to subsequent waves of the virus due to herd im
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When you have a silent disease that kills people on time delay which is very contagious, and a lack of testing it's impossible to confidently control the infection rate.
Then you have the fact that some people can not be saved no matter what is done for them until we have a better understanding. Even if that is an acceptable death rate, nobody wants it to be them. People with a brain and fear of losing somebody close to them still will change their behavior; some people will want to protect strangers... The
Social distancing slows rate, it does not prevent (Score:2)
Responsible leaders who actually care will be haunted by the deaths that they may have been able to prevent
Except for people not receiving proper care because hospitals are overwhelmed, there are no avoidable deaths. Flattening the curve does *not* change the number of infected, the numerator, it only change the *timeframe* of being infected. Stretching it out over a longer period so the hospitals are not overwhelmed.
This is the reality until a vaccine is developed. Only vaccines *prevent*, social distancing only "slows" the rate of infection, it does not stop infections.
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Except for people not receiving proper care because hospitals are overwhelmed
People are not receiving proper care because the only care available is emergency care. The hospitals are not overwhelmed. The hospitals are, in fact, laying people off.
But go on, keep repeating the Democrat talking points. Once upon a time if you told a lie often enough it would magically become true, but apparently you havent noticed the 0% success rate over the past 6 years.
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- Medical professionals that normally provide that elective care but not treating COVID-19 patients are getting laid off due to lack of work.
- There are some promising treatments being trialed that could reduce the symptoms of infection and increase survivorship.
- Population without acquired immunity is at risk until they acquire immunity.
- If you are at risk your bes
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More time = more data = higher survival; aside from more ventilators.
The most obvious example is that a % will die WITH proper care and just think of those who die months before a vaccine because they were infected earlier than necessary!
Corners are being cut *before* actual overloading happens which increases risk of death; priorities are being shifted and people are dying indirectly in preventable situations.
Remember, age range data has been revised. Diabetics who were rationing their insulin have to stop
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Orange County is at just 14 deaths per million [latimes.com] from the virus.
That's for the last 7 day period. Washington State has had just under 100 deaths per million since the start of the pandemic. The weekly death rate is pretty low right now (perhaps lower than 14/mill). I can't be bothered to straighten out the state's XLS spreadsheet, which looks like it was designed by a grade-schooler.
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The key thing is that they are "People largely social distanced."... Meaning a lot do not.
People living together do not need to socially distance. Its even explicitly stated as an exception in California.
Also for beaches it is the case of these germ filled kids, who will come up play with stranger kids. Beaches are a rather social areas even with adults keeping a good distance, their kids are carrier who will spread problems.
Nope, people are largely socially distancing and that includes keeping small kids from engaging as you describe.
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Nope, people are largely socially distancing and that includes keeping small kids from engaging as you describe.
I manage a property at the beach. I had to fix a mailbox lock there the day before yesterday. Many people on Ocean Front Walk (the "boardwalk" behind the seawall) were doing a respectable job of keeping apart. But way too many people weren't. In the evening they were all looking at the cool bioluminescence from algae we're getting as reported in the media. Many of the non-locals who drove in from the inland communities were either doing an inadequate job of social isolation, or simply didn't care, or eve
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You must have been really busy monitoring the action of every single person on every beach in California. Thank goodness you were able to ascertain that social distancing was occurring... largely. I feel safer knowing you're out there, keeping watch.
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Global Climate Emergency (Score:1)
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Longer dolphin video (Score:5, Informative)
Go to this fishing site [tempbreak.com] and switch the second drop-down to 8-day chloro. That's an average of the last 8 days of satellite ocean chlorophyll readings. Normally the chlorophyll (algae) levels are blue to green. I've only ever seen small orange/red patches before. Never extending from Baja up the entire Southern California coast.
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Neon blue? (Score:1)