Beach in Lima adds flood lights to encourage surfing at night. Belmar will be next http://www.theinertia.com/surf/a-be...ghts-specifically-to-encourage-night-surfing/
I remember when as a kid living in PR, we used to fish off of docks that had lights because it attracted big fish, to include sharks. That precludes me surfing at night, lights or no lights....... And then, of course, there is the "kracken" you need to worry about.......
Exactly, lights attract photosensitive plankton, plankton attracts minnows, minnows attract bigger fish and so on. All the way up to the top predator, the shark. Lights that are on every night train fish to congregate in that area looking for forage the same way a warm water discharge at a power plant keeps fish there long after the water cools beyond their comfort level and they all die when it shuts off. Take a walk out on your local, lighted bridge or pier at night and watch the action below. You will see more fish than you would believe. I'm not surfing under lights unless it's in the first night they are turned on, after that you are asking for it.
^^^^ I've walked around Straight Wharf on Nantucket many times... with those big, fancy, multi-million dollar boats lighting up harbor like a Christmas Tree. You can't imagine what shows up...
Prease, elaborate...now I just wanna lurk docks at night and look for fish. But sh!t man, the Indians fished for blackfish w torches right?
I remember living in FL and fishing at night from the piers and docks. The shadows just outside the light....
That's why the piers are jam packed at night. Try finding a good spot on the Skyway pier to fish on a weekend night, it's near impossible. Unless weather sucks then it's empty.
yall do realize places like peru are great for this not a lot of sharks at all...now if this was done in florida it would last a night.
Agreed. You couldn't pay me to go in the water in Florida at night. Not sure if people surf any of the piers at night down there but sharks own the water at night in FLA.
Surfing Ours at night - Fighting Fear Don't think sharks were the biggest concern [video=youtube;3wEt6Ef-x1M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wEt6Ef-x1M[/video]
Approximately 90% of sea turtle nesting within the U.S. occurs in Florida, (over 100,000 threatened/endangered), and so we have strict rules to protect them. Some years back, when assisting with the organization of a surf event, we wanted the sponsor hotel to place some lights out for us, but the extremely accommodating manager told me that he could not do it, because of interfering with the sea turtles. The event was in January, which is off-season for nesting (March through October), and I did not push the matter. Having just issued a query for Peru, I found some recently documented in Northern Peru...
I've done it a few times. Not smart, but i'm still alive. Once or twice at New Smryna years ago and another time in Cocoa, not the pier. A couple other times in the Gulf, once I recall some bio-luminescence going on, it was awesome, My board was glowing neon green! Full moon, good times!
The precise query was as follows, "Lima Peru sea turtle nesting". I have yet to issue additional ones, which may fetch more results for Lima. The lights attract the sea turtles.
