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Sargassum is headed to Florida and the Caribbean. Could it ruin your beach vacation?
“Massive seaweed blob invades Florida beaches!” “Huge, smelly snake of seaweed headed toward the Caribbean!” Though the headlines sound like something out of a 1950s horror movie, sargassum is reaching record levels this year, with some beaches already seeing large amounts of the brown seaweed washing ashore. Does sargassum have the potential to sour your seaside vacation in the coming months? TPG spoke with oceanography experts to find out. What is sargassum? JEFFREY M. SCHELL/SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Sargassum is a large, brown seaweed – the common name for various species of marine plants and algae – that floats along the ocean’s surface. In healthy amounts, sargassum is a critical habitat…
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What Is Sargassum? Everything Travelers Need to Know
A large “seaweed blob” that is section of the Excellent Sargassum Belt is building headlines and could have seashore goers wondering if their impending sand-loaded getaways alongside the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean and Florida might be plagued with a layer of rotting, stinking algae. At the get started of this 12 months, University of South Florida experts released information demonstrating that the volume of seaweed in the Terrific Sargassum Belt—a 5,000-mile-extensive spot containing a free assortment of patches of the brown floating seaweed, positioned between West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico—had doubled in sizing in two consecutive months (December 2022 and all over again…
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