OP: @paranormaldatabase@mastodonapp.uk

Milky seas have been notoriously impossible to predict. Even today, with advances in technology and satellite technology, just when the next one will occur is information that continues to elude researchers.

While they have been documented in eyewitness accounts for the past 400 years, only one sample of ‘milky sea’ ocean water has ever been collected. And that was by accident, in 1985.

“According to the data we have on that, they found this bioluminescent bacterium called Vibrio harveyi around there, which lines up pretty well with what the glow of this milky sea looks like,” said Hudson. “So, that’s why we strongly suspect this.”

Hudson’s database merges 240 credible accounts dating back to the 1600s with modern, low-light satellite imagery, giving scientists their first real opportunity to forecast where and when the phenomenon will next appear.