Waves light up blue in Morro Bay early Saturday ... she leaves a streak of glowing blue water in the ocean behind her. “It’s just a splattering of turquoise-glowing blue,” Bryan said.

Waves light up blue in Morro Bay early Saturday ... she leaves a streak of glowing blue water in the ocean behind her. “It’s just a splattering of turquoise-glowing blue,” Bryan said.

The algae appears in warmer coastal waters, and is caused by a light-producing ... electric blue color when disturbed in the water either by wave or by the natural flow of the ocean.

And for those who haven’t yet seen bright blue ocean, it might not be too late ... glow — a type of dinoflagellate — to light up waves somewhere along Southern California’s coast.

The shots show the blue light tracing the crest of the waves ... wasn’t visible on the shore but in the middle of the ocean, in the waves. It was also a quarter moon that night, so I had ...

During the blue light trials, some corals moved up to ... Passive movement relies on wave energy and gravity. The ocean’s waves generate enough force to move the corals — sometimes in the ...