Mystery of the Milky Sea
BBC Earth Podcast
Jenkins Laura
4.6 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we need to look at our planet from a different perspective to really appreciate its splendour and realise how small we really are, when sailing the seas or staring into the sky. This week join us in discovering the magical, the unexpected and the awe-inspiring.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from BBC Studios. |
| 0:04.0 | A commercial subsidiary of the BBC. |
| 0:10.0 | I have actually a quote if you'd like to hear it. |
| 0:24.8 | 25th January 1995 at 1800 UTC, universal time coordinates, on a clear moonless night, |
| 0:35.0 | while 150 nautical miles east of the Somalian coast, a whitish glow |
| 0:40.2 | was observed on the horizon, and after 15 minutes of steaming, the ship was completely surrounded |
| 0:46.0 | by a sea of milky white color with a fairly uniform luminescence. The bioluminescence |
| 0:52.8 | appeared to cover the entire sea from horizon to horizon, |
| 0:56.8 | and it appeared as though the ship was sailing over a field of snow or gliding over the clouds. |
| 1:04.4 | Welcome to the BBC Earth podcast, the podcast that sees things a little differently. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm Emily Knight, and this week's episode is all about a shift in perspective, |
| 1:15.4 | about looking down on the world from a slightly different angle |
| 1:18.3 | and ending up with a brand new view. |
| 1:21.5 | And we're starting with a mystery in the dead of night, in the middle of the open ocean. |
| 1:27.3 | These are the kinds of accounts that we have from sea captains and crews, |
| 1:32.0 | dating back to the 1800s, waters that glowed steadily, |
| 1:36.1 | kind of looking like milk or clouds, from horizon to horizon in all directions, |
| 1:40.5 | you know, bright white in the middle of the night. |
| 1:43.7 | For as long as humans have been going off to sea, they've been coming home with extraordinary |
| 1:48.0 | tales. |
| 1:49.2 | Tales of mermaids and monsters, but perhaps stranger than both of them, tales of a phenomenon |
| 1:54.4 | known as the Milky Sea. |
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