The bioluminescence is a phenomenon caused by flourishing algae blooms, also known as the 'red tide.'
— In Southern California, people are flocking to the water for what may be one of the hottest tickets in town, a light show unlike any other.
"This is something that looks like it's out of a movie, it doesn't really look real," Los Angeles-based photographer Patrick Coyne said. "This is part of a phenomenon that we call an algae bloom, or 'red tide,'" oceanographer Drew Lucas from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography told CBS News. Julia Beckett, 60, left, of Huntington Beach, and Christine Tuttle, 65, right, of Westminster capture the glowing blue of the bioluminescence in the crashing waves in the middle of the night on Sept. 11, 2023, in Newport Beach, Calif. Lucas explained that the flourishing algae blooms are a rust color during the day, and even though the bioluminescence emitted is blue, it all due to the red tide.
"They do really like warm temperatures, calm conditions, and we've had a pretty long run of that here in Southern California over the last couple of weeks," Lucas said.
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