Night footage shows bright blue dolphins swimming through bioluminescent waters off California coast

Mark Girardeau captured the stunning video in Newport Beach.

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00:00 to share with you now. Take a good look at this footage shot earlier this week

00:04 off the coast of Newport Beach. It looks kind of like special effects right from a sci-fi

00:09 movie but it's actually a rare glimpse of dolphins swimming through glowing

00:13 blue bioluminescence. It's very cool. It is very cool. Look at the only thing that to

00:21 me I think it's kind of gross because what's causing all of the the

00:25 bioluminescence are organisms so it agitates it. That's right. So if you're

00:30 swimming in it and you just happen to swallow something. I've heard the surfers

00:35 are not thrilled about. No. Yeah. Yeah. They call you know these big algae blooms. By

00:43 day it's kind of gives the ocean a red and brown hue-ish look. Not fun again to

00:49 swim in or to surf. But it is beautiful. But at night yes you said it Bobby it

00:54 gets a little agitated. It gets a little worked up and creates these fantastic

00:59 pictures. The glow. A lot of folks were gathering across all our coastal

01:04 communities to watch again those crashing waves and seeing that also the

01:08 blue glow when the waves crash. Cool stuff there.