Mosquito Bay in Puerto Rico is one of the most bioluminescent bodies of water in the world.Any movement in the water sends a billow of bright blue-green light spinning and undulating in fractal beauty, until it eventually diffuses back into the dark stillness of the bay. Below you, bright blue tracer lines suddenly appear in the water as small fish dart through the blackness.
Bioluminescence is a form of natural light created by living organisms converting internal chemical energy into light. The light in Mosquito Bay is created by a tiny organism called Dinoflagellate.
Mosquito Bay contains an astonishing number, roughly 700,000 of these glowing fellas per single gallon of water. Although they are microscopic, the light they give off is a hundred times larger themselves, and in great numbers they light up like an underwater aurora borealis.
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