Saturday, June 1, 2013

Gorgeous Glowing Beach

Glowing Beach

Anyone who loves nature and enjoys knowing and experiencing all the beautiful sights it holds around the universe would be amazed to see this amazing glowing beach. Think of a night when you are standing on a beach having blue or neon glowing waves. It is no less than a magical view. In the movie “Life of Pi”, we see such kind of magical view that takes our breath away. Any nature lover would die to experience it. Now, a question might arise on our mind that how’s this even possible. Well, this is a natural occurrence.

There are many beaches around the world having the glowing waves. Vaadhoo Island in Maldives is one of them.


Vaadhoo Island, Maldives


This phenomenon is occurred due to bio-luminescent organisms. Different kinds of microorganisms in short Protists or Microbes who are eukaryotic creatures living in oceans cause this mystic scenery. These microbes glow when they are disturbed.  So what is considered magical to us is not at all pleasing to them.  This organism is caused with the help of a pigments and an enzyme- Luciferin and Luciferase. Luciferin’s job is to react with oxygen while Luciferase helps to the rapidity of the reaction.

Other faunas such as fireflies, jellyfish use the same procedure for their production of light.
There are some interesting videos on this at the end of the post.


Bio-luminescent Organism, Glowing Beach

Underwater Glowing occurence

Bio-luminescent Organism

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