While I was in Florida reporting on the oil spill for National Geographic News, researcher Ping Wang pointed me towards his grad student’s work with UV light. Turns out that the oil glows bright, head-shop fluorescent orange under UV light. Rip Kirby’s ultra-powerful $1800 “Klingon Death Ray” ultraviolet spotlight lit up every particle of oil-stained sand, even in seemingly clean areas, and our footprints showed up Day-Glo orange.
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jabo27 8:15 pm on 07/26/2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
put 300 of those on an airplane and let’s see some flyover footage. Don’t they make UV glow sticks? good for underwater shots.