The Milky Sea
Oct 5th, 2005 by Moonage
“The whole appearance of the ocean was like a plain covered with snow. There was scarce a cloud in the heavens, yet the sky…appeared as black as if a storm was raging. The scene was one of awful grandeur; the sea having turned to phosphorus, and the heavens being hung in blackness, and the stars going out, seemed to indicate that all nature was preparing for that last grand conflagration which we are taught to believe is to annihilate this material world.”
Famous writers have written about milky seas for a long time. The British Meteorological Office has documented 235 cases of it.
See that island hilited by the square box? It doesn’t exist. That is the ocean glowing. That, is a “milky sea” Jules Verne and Herman Melville wrote about. It is also possibly the first known photograph of a milky sea. Pretty cool huh?
