wait what did you find we found a
biofluorescence turtle scientists have
only really tuned in to biofluorescence
in the last 10 years and as soon as we
started tuning into it we started to
find it everywhere first it was in
corals and jellyfish that it was in fish
and there it was this UFO this turtle
was just hanging out with us his suit it
was in love with the lights I was just
hanging out with us it was glowing neon
yellow yeah is the first the first I’ve
ever seen of a biofluorescent turtle
spectacular okay so you’re up done
alright we’re going after them I was in
the Solomon Islands on a TV a 21 Academy
expedition which is a new group that
pairs up artists and scientists to do
different projects related to the marine
environment I’m taking pictures of some
corals that we already knew were
biofluorescent and then in the middle I
guess maybe 40 minutes into the dive out
of the blue it’s almost looks like a
bright red and green spaceship you know
came underneath my camera the only
animal that I’m really can tell you
definitively has two colors is corals
you know we found lots of fluorescence
in marine eels and it’s all green
fluorescence and lots of fluorescence in
gobies and that’s mainly red
fluorescence so until we actually get a
hold of one of these Turtles and really
start to look at it chemically we
wouldn’t know what it is beautiful
stripes you know green across the head
across the back just bumped into us it’s
just basically I was filming coral and
then it came in front of my lens and
then hung out with us for probably three
minutes five minutes something like that
and then he wasn’t pretty calm
I mean I’ve never seen a turtle that
calm yeah I’ve never so wanted to let
him go after a little bit I felt like he
came and he devotes to seek oh that was
enough it was enough to get this first
little bit of footage which really shows
that turtles are biofluorescent now it
opens up all these new questions to us
of what is it doing in these Turtles we
know they have really good vision they
go under these long and arduous
migrations but how are they using this
are they using it to find each other or
are they using it to attract each other
what’s even more sad I think about this
is that these Turtles have such a
storied history and now they’re
critically endangered there’s some
places where there’s just a few thousand
breeding females remaining
you
biofluorescence turtle scientists have
only really tuned in to biofluorescence
in the last 10 years and as soon as we
started tuning into it we started to
find it everywhere first it was in
corals and jellyfish that it was in fish
and there it was this UFO this turtle
was just hanging out with us his suit it
was in love with the lights I was just
hanging out with us it was glowing neon
yellow yeah is the first the first I’ve
ever seen of a biofluorescent turtle
spectacular okay so you’re up done
alright we’re going after them I was in
the Solomon Islands on a TV a 21 Academy
expedition which is a new group that
pairs up artists and scientists to do
different projects related to the marine
environment I’m taking pictures of some
corals that we already knew were
biofluorescent and then in the middle I
guess maybe 40 minutes into the dive out
of the blue it’s almost looks like a
bright red and green spaceship you know
came underneath my camera the only
animal that I’m really can tell you
definitively has two colors is corals
you know we found lots of fluorescence
in marine eels and it’s all green
fluorescence and lots of fluorescence in
gobies and that’s mainly red
fluorescence so until we actually get a
hold of one of these Turtles and really
start to look at it chemically we
wouldn’t know what it is beautiful
stripes you know green across the head
across the back just bumped into us it’s
just basically I was filming coral and
then it came in front of my lens and
then hung out with us for probably three
minutes five minutes something like that
and then he wasn’t pretty calm
I mean I’ve never seen a turtle that
calm yeah I’ve never so wanted to let
him go after a little bit I felt like he
came and he devotes to seek oh that was
enough it was enough to get this first
little bit of footage which really shows
that turtles are biofluorescent now it
opens up all these new questions to us
of what is it doing in these Turtles we
know they have really good vision they
go under these long and arduous
migrations but how are they using this
are they using it to find each other or
are they using it to attract each other
what’s even more sad I think about this
is that these Turtles have such a
storied history and now they’re
critically endangered there’s some
places where there’s just a few thousand
breeding females remaining
you
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