Brown Seaweed Appears in Massive Amounts on Florida, Caribbean Beaches

[Cruisin-Cori]

I just went to the weather channel website to look at the weather and noticed this article.

 

 

https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2018-06-27-sargassum-seaweed-florida-caribbean

 

 

 

I don't know what this means for cruises to the Caribbean next year but how gross and how sad. :(

[trouble92126]

I saw them in Costa maya in Feb. it’s all over the place.

 

 

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[cb at sea]

It's all tide-driven...happens when the tides are right.

[BNBR]

This is really nothing new. It comes and goes.

[KnightsFan]

It happens just about every year. And come February there'll be a ton of jellyfish in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic.

[DebJ14]

We had it a couple years ago in Galveston. It was piled several feet high on the beaches with paths cut through to the disgustingly brown water. The smell was awful.

This year the water has been remarkably blue and clear in Galveston.

[karena1]

it is what it it is right now. We have been to Punta Cana multiple times and the seaweed was the worst we have ever seen. We walk through it and enjoy our time. If you don't want seaweed, then don't go to the beaches. It happens it is part of traveling to the Caribbean.

[Cruisin-Cori]

If you don't want seaweed, then don't go to the beaches. It happens it is part of traveling to the Caribbean.

 

I've been to the Caribbean many times (NOT always on a ship & Hawaii 15 times) and I have never seen this kind of seaweed. That was my only reason for posting. This brown stuff was a a little shocking.

 

 

Thanks for all of the comments.

[Ashland]

What's more disturbing is an article I just read about Florida and the "Sea Lice" :eek::eek::eek:

[Cruisin-Cori]

What's more disturbing is an article I just read about Florida and the "Sea Lice" :eek::eek::eek:

 

Ewwwww... another great reason for me to skip the ocean all together.

[nelblu]

I saw them in Costa maya in Feb. it’s all over the place.

 

 

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A couple of years ago all over the Cozumel beaches. They blamed it on a storm.

[kknorr0320]

What's more disturbing is an article I just read about Florida and the "Sea Lice" :eek::eek::eek:

Sea lice are just baby jelly fish. I swam through some in Roatan once. It was annoying for a bit but some benadryl ointment took care of it.

 

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[xpcdoojk]

So a hundred years ago brown seaweed piles up on a beach in the Caribbean and the locals went and grabbed some crabs from the mess. Today it happens and people with no knowledge of the past, act as if tourism to the Caribbean is doomed for all time.

 

Education is awesome... too bad nobody learns from it any more.

 

JC

[Ashland]

Sea lice are just baby jelly fish. I swam through some in Roatan once. It was annoying for a bit but some benadryl ointment took care of it.

 

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Yes...but the pictures posted along with the recent story on Yahoo were :eek::eek:

[Pellaz]

Whew. Even though they have NO idea what's causing it, the article is careful to mention it "could" be climate change.

[John&LaLa]

We had it a couple years ago in Galveston. It was piled several feet high on the beaches with paths cut through to the disgustingly brown water. The smell was awful.

This year the water has been remarkably blue and clear in Galveston.

Cocoa Beach, FL

 

Currently blue.

 

We had some brown crap in January

 

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[Biker19]

Happens almost weekly in south Florida, but the local park service is great at cleaning it up.

[sail7seas]

I saw them in Costa maya in Feb. it’s all over the place.

 

 

 

 

 

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Does it give off an unpleasant odor?

[ONECRUISER]

Yes...but the pictures posted along with the recent story on Yahoo were :eek::eek:

Beat me too it, was going say THAT picture is worth 1000 words...

[ATC cruiser]

Does it give off an unpleasant odor?

 

 

 

It did in St Kitts, smelled like rotten eggs

[Velvetwater]

Is going nutty over seaweed just a US thing?

 

It's fine...we get the same 'breed' of seaweed (Sargassum) on the west coast of the UK.

 

We step over it and go into the sea...if it floats around us we carry on swimming.

 

No problem.

[BNBR]

Is going nutty over seaweed just a US thing?

 

It's fine...we get the same 'breed' of seaweed (Sargassum) on the west coast of the UK.

 

We step over it and go into the sea...if it floats around us we carry on swimming.

 

No problem.

 

The news here loves to embellish everything. As a native South Floridan, we are used to the seaweed and we step over it as well. It's not a big deal. I never put much thought to it until the news went nuts for a fake story.

[KnightsFan]

Is going nutty over seaweed just a US thing?

 

It's fine...we get the same 'breed' of seaweed (Sargassum) on the west coast of the UK.

 

We step over it and go into the sea...if it floats around us we carry on swimming.

 

No problem.

 

Only to people who aren't used to it.