Largest marine bioinvasion of sargassum ever recorded heading to Florida and the Caribbean

[andre10056]

Largest 'marine bioinvasion' of sargassum ever recorded heading to Florida, Caribbean

Massive piles of sargassum, the size of which have not been seen before, are floating this way, right now, sure to coat the beaches of Florida’s East Coast, the Keys, and various Caribbean islands

www.wgcu.org

Looks like it's going to be a fun summer in the Keys and southeast Florida as well as the Caribbean.

If you haven't yet smelled rotting sargassum, it ain't so pleasant. And also toxic so that prolonged exposure may get you a visit to the emergency ward. And yet I've seen knuckleheads plop their beach chairs on top of two to three feet of brown, slimy, rotting sargassum seaweed. I guess if you're paying a thousand a night to stay in Key West, you're going to the beach, dammit!

 

[JohnnyO]

Standard travel equipment for the Caribbean

https://a.co/d/08JNGmuT

 

[easyrider]

The nice thing about the resort area in Cancun is they clean up the sargassum almost daily where we stayed. In the morning a sand Zamboni type of machine drives down the shoreline to remove the sargassum. Supposedly, they take the sargassum to be used in other products but it looked like that means dump it in a pile a couple miles from the resort.

Bill