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grand salon, I sought a dry spot along the rail and humped my way to a safe place to watch the luminescence and phosphorescence play in the sea. I had heard of it before but to see it is to laugh at description. To give an inkling of what it's all about imagine, if you will, a black night (we had clouds every blessed day except when we most needed 'em in the danger zone) and a black deck. You look at the water and see light patches here and there throughout the field. You wonder how it is that you can see these glimmering sections, and on the nearer patches, and particularly directly alongside the hull of the ship, you will [[strikethrough]] see [[/strikethrough]] observe sparkles and pick flashes of white light similar to that of fireflys. That's what happens when the