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I believe what you heard was krill, tiny shrimp-like beasties that made me
think I had an electrical problem the first time I heard them!

Elizabeth





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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Allen" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:07 PM
Subject: Noisy Sea Surface


> On Nov 14, 2003, at 5:56 AM, Fred Hebard wrote:
>
> > But why is it that disturbance of water leads to phosphorescence?  That
> > would be an interesting, albeit off topic, question to address to the
> > planktonologists (sic) at your wife's research station.
>
> Interesting question indeed.  We see much phosphorescence here in Puget
> Sound at night in our plankton rich waters.
>
> I just returned from a wonderful 3 week trip delivering a boat from
> Solomons, Maryland to Fort Pierce, Florida, a 1,000 nautical mile trip,
> mostly done in the Intercoastal Waterway (ICW).  I highly recommend
> this trip!  We anchored most nights, but occasionally stayed in
> marinas.  We proceeded at about 60 nmi per day, at an average of 7
> knots.
>
> Anyway, in Florida one night at a dock in St. Augustine, we HEARD the
> strangest sounds coming through our hull.  Out of 20 nights sleeping
> aboard our vessel (a 39' Krogen trawler), only at this one place did we
> hear these strange sounds.  I got out of the boat and stood on the dock
> in the evening and listened, and could hear these strange scratching
> sounds, as if there were thousands of little tiny organisms nibbling on
> the docks or hull of the boat.  We could not see anything in the water
> that was unusual.
>
> Has anyone ever heard anything like this before on their boats?  Does
> anyone have an explanation for this?

   

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