Green flash at sunset.

Green flash at sunset, Guernsey, Channel Islands

[yusefmessallam]

red light reflected off a blue surface at the critical angle yields green light. The ocean is working like a filter/prism.

[Qui-]

I was expecting something different with the term "flash".
But, this was still interesting.

[bonblue]

This was the very first time I saw the green flash, and I am76 years old! Thanks for the video!

[TOPDadAlpha]

My father always owned boats... I spent my entire life on a boat. I have owned 7. I am 72. HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS. FINALLY!!!! Thank you

[juliarichmond]

I saw a green flash in 2003. Our first night in Waialua Bay, my husband and I walked to the water’s edge to watch the sunset. There were two or three whales about 150 yards out, slapping the water with their tales. The weather was absolutely perfect. And then when the sun set, the green flash. It was the single most magical moment of my life.

[uitwysr]

I saw one in pirates of the Caribbean!

[RailPreserverK]

"You ever gaze upon the Green Flash Master Turner?"

[dewbow]

Amazing how fast the sun disappears below the horizon!

[jefferymuffinsbobmarley]

potc had me expecting a flash in the sky afterwards

[jeffkindrick]

I saw the green flash from the flight deck of the USS Enterprise CVA(N)-65 in December of 1971. We had just finished a 30 day line period on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf and were heading to Subic Bay, Philippines, for resupply and liberty when the India-Pakastani war broke out. The Enterprise and escorts, as Nuclear Task Force 1, were ordered to the Indian Ocean in the event that any US citizens caught up in the hostilities needed evacuation. We were transiting the Straits of Mallaca and I was on the flight deck as sunset approached and recalled reading about the green flash in a novel the previous summer. I wasn't sure it was even a real phenomenon but decided to watch for it and lucked out. I didn't own a movie camera and both my film cameras were in my locker below deck, but I still recall the event and this video comes very close to my experience. It would be easy to overlook the brief flash if you didn't know about it. A couple of years ago I discovered a lesser known Jules Verne work entitled "The Green Flash" in a Kindle collection of his writings. Thanks for sharing your video!

[JohnDeereR-zwwj]

Saw my first and so far in my nearly 61 years, only green flash just this past February. We were at Rick's Cafe in Negril Jamaica watching g the sun set over the water. Beautiful.

[mgclark]

As a kid, I read a Reader's Digest article titled " A split-Second of Paradise" which described this phenomena.

[Mikdeelow]

Nice! I saw it in about 1980 while driving on the 5 freeway in Oceanside CA! I was looking at the sun sinking and looked at just the right moment!
It was very bright.

[True-trini]

That was perfect. Thank you for allowing us to see it.

[caderatliff]

We sit out on our lanai every evening with a glass of scotch and grade the greenflashes. 2 nights ago was one of the most vivid we've ever seen as a clear horizon surface beneath low horizon clouds magnified the intensity. And the sunbeams shooting skyward were a real framing treat.

Oh ya ... this was absolutely beautiful!

[pheniciak.]

wow... so beautiful 😮 i thought it was just a tale told in pirates of the caribbean 🙈

[odysodys]

It can be an actual green flash -- a bright green wink. Saw it once in my life -- circa 1986 -- from a inflatable boat off San Diego, California and in the company of the legendary Sylvia Earle. .

[Theguywhoreallyjustrhymed]

My rockruff evolved while seeing this! Thanks.

[jenniferlouis]

My dad said that the green flash brings all people that died at sea into heaven.

[PlasmaCoolantLeak]

First time I saw the Green Flash was in the early 80s, at a friend's house in the hills above San Jose. Hope life has been good to you, Joan.