Bioluminescenct Coral

By Dr. M, on April 30th, 2008 4 comments   Coral, Pictures and Movies

A deep-sea coral was collected at ~700m in the north-west Hawaiin islands. Back in lab, the lights were turned off and the scientists were excited to see how brightly the coral bioluminesced. Coral samples were collected by Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) and the Pisces V submersible

4 comments to Bioluminescenct Coral

• Peter

  April 30, 2008 at 16:47 · Reply

  And sea fans would be bioluminescent why….?

• kevin z

  April 30, 2008 at 18:52 · Reply

  Isn’t that where the government did secret nuclear testing….?

• Peter

  April 30, 2008 at 20:00 · Reply

  The flashing light.. it looks like morse code for… “take me to your leader”.

• CK

  May 2, 2008 at 10:01 · Reply

  Hmmm…colonized by bioluminescent bacteria?