When the Ocean turned green

Ever since Rajiv started working on an oil platform, every now and then something happens which gives him sense of fantasy. Like being in a Japanese animation movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
 
This shift on Arabian sea Rajiv witnessed such an moment of fantasy. At night, around 11.50 PM Rajiv was going back to his room from office. I always tell Rajiv to check on if everything as we walk back, being as vigilant as possible. After all this is the middle of an ocean. It does feel a bit scary at around mid-night, while going back alone to the room. Especially when colleagues show us a horror flick or on amavasya (new moon), Rajiv gets really scared.

There is the ever present flare (used to vent the excess gas into the environment by burning it). Both

LP flare

of them, High pressure (HP) as well as Low pressure (LP). The thudding sound of a broken tin shed on the bridge end created by the wind (always scares me at around 12:00 in the night). And we also have to check on to the ocean. If any activities is going on (who knows what might come up from the ocean, tsunami/terrorists/Godzilla/Dinausour sized robots/you never know).

So, I casually looked at the ocean as I always do while going back. And I was astonished. I would be lying if I said I haven't seen anything like it. But then again they now a days they can show you anything in a movie, such is today's technology. You don't actually believe it exists. You think what a wonderful imagination, and how you could never imagine somethings like it. Well you can't; you have to experience them. And yes it is true that people do experience things differently. And that is what one brings across, one's perception.

I guess most of you have seen the movie Life of Pi. It was in this movie that I saw it first. The moment when Pi is stranded on that island, which seems like heaven to him. The island with all the Meerkat's. The island with the green glow at night.

That is what I witnessed. A big area of glowing green patch. Not just one. But about 4. There could have been more. The glow was like seeing a jugnu in the ocean. It was pulsating. It was like seeing northern aurora lights, in the ocean. I did look up at the sky, if it was originating from there. Then I looked at the lights at our platform, may be reflection from one of the boom lights of the crane.

No, it indeed was something. I did a public announcement and told as many. No one in their entire career had seen anything like it. Some ignored it. They just don't see the wonders around them anymore.

I watched the green glowing dance of the ocean for an hour, before it faded a bit. And I was feeling a bit sleepy. The next day morning, was all talks about, what did we actually witnessed. I was asking google like crazy. It did turn up that some kind of worm, do this in the Bermuda triangle. I don't know if they are the same worms, and there were theories of jelly fish, other fishes, etc. But you want to be part of the theory that contains Bermuda triangle, don't you? I asked a guy who was on the platform for 16 years. He said, he never witnessed anything like that. 

http://www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda_0002df.htm

We did hope to enjoy the ocean dance green next day also. But that wasn't to be.

It was a one time thing.