I was at the beach, and the ocean turned black

Question

Ok, so I was at myrtle beach SC last week, and was looking out my hotel room and saw a large dark spot in the water. At first I thought it was bait fish but it grew, then it went all the way to the shore, then spread extremely big and fast, soon it seemed to take up half of the water that I could see. Then it drifted and changed shapes until it was gone.

This was the WEIRDEST thing ive ever seen. I thought it may be cloud shadows, but there were now clouds.

What the HECK could this have been!!!?

Answer 1

Did you read the book "Prey" It could be nano -particles

Or maybe it's the black smokey thing from Lost??

Did you find it!!!??

Answer 2

It could have been a shark or a seal or a big fish. It could have even been dirt underwater, sometimes the dirt moves around. Where you saw this - was it in deep water? or shallow?

Answer 3

maybe someone dumped a bunch of toxic waste there, and then later on somehow it reacted to something and that's what made the big black blob

Answer 4

I saw that kind of thing in Destin,Florida befor. I wonder what it is too. Im not sure wat it is but i think its some kind of oil maybe or ink. good luck!

Answer 5

it was a cloud

Answer 6

It could have been a bunch of jellyfish getting almost beached on shore.  they can be dark sometimes.  Then just before they got thrown on shore they drifted somewhere else.

Answer 7

It sounds like an illegally dumped oil tanker exploding underwater - that would explain the blackness expanding over the sea because oil is lighter than water and so floats on the top of it. It changing shapes until it disappeared sounds like oil too though I thought it took oil a long time to get out of the water and wouldn't just *absorb*. Odd :s unfortunately, if it was an oil leak you'd know by all the dead or dying fish and birds washing up covered in the stuff the next day :(

Could also have been a school of small fish, rising to the surface in mass for some reason before swimming off again. Huge clumps of seaweed can also make the sea look black, or it could've been dirt from the sea bed, moving around after it was disturbed by an under-water marine animal.

Answer 8

my only answer is that maybe you wrere seeing a school of fish or planton or someting, things like that are small enough so that you wouldnt see the individual creatures, just the formations they make. if they switched from swimming in a verticle formation to a more horizontal one that would explain why it seemed to grow and shrink. the ocean is full of all kinds of wierd things, one time i was swimming close to shore and accidentially swam into a swarm of baby jellies, man that was lame!!!

Answer 9

Seaweed. When there is a TON of seaweed, it can make the water look black because there is so much of it. It was probably a huge amount of seaweed tied together and then when it it the shore it got all separated and then puled itself together again. That's my theory of what you saw >_<

Answer 10

Some kind of shadows or maybe a big school of fish.

Maybe it was a ghost!