Permanent deep-sea’s darkness is sometimes lightened by
biogenic light blooms, a phenomenon so-called ‘deep-sea bioluminescence’. It is
the ability of numerous marine organisms to emit light by chemical processes.
According to an article published on the journal PLOS ONE, based on an
inter-disciplinary research carried out with ANTARES telescope —the first
underwater equipment to detect high energy neutrinos—, deep-sea bioluminescence
blooms are connected with dense water formation. The article, signed by an
international group composed by more than 150 experts, was coordinated by
Miquel Canals, professor from the Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and
Marine Geosciences at the Faculty of Geology of the UB, affliliated centre with
the campus of international excellence BKC, and the experts Christian Tamburini
and Stéphanie Escoffier, from Aix-Marseille University, and Xavier Durrieu de
Madron, from the University of Perpignan.