climate change is at hand!
During Christopher Columbus's voyage of discovery across the Atlantic, he was amazed to find floating mass of seaweed as far east as the Azores. It looked like a carpet of little yellow grapes so they called it Sargasso (a generic name in Spanish for seaweeds with a brown color and with an obvious stalk and root; the Sargasso Sea is "El mar de los Sargazos"). Sargassum is a brown algae and the ‘grapes’ are the air bladders, which keep it afloat. It may look like the attached marine plants found in coastal waters, but it’s found in the middle of the North Atlantic Gyre. The area, of about 2 million square miles, is known as the Sargasso Sea. Fast forward some hundred years later an we have an epidemic in the small islands of Caribbean.
these shots were taken in my home village Windward.
At first it was just a small patch but now it's a whole lot and trust me it has a putrid smell worse than a skunk when it's decaying.
The route problem is the shift in the currants from the gulf, which is drawing the influx of Sargasso to the Caribbean rather than it's original route to Africa. Every year it gets worse i mean who likes to smell rotting fish guts mixed with pig shit for 2 months straight an summer holiday is right around the corner, sad.
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@dean18
Thanks for your post, very useful. Climate change is real and can be proved everywhere. Correct me if I'm wrong, as climate continue to warm up areas around the world, the temperature of water around the world also rises. With warmer water, it would favor sea plants and algae to grow, your picture might be related to this.
yes that's true the warmer waters are in favor of the sargasso's growth.
Can that type of seaweed be used for biofuel or anything useful than sitting to rot and stink?
Saw a tv documentary about someone was growing seaweed to use for biofuel, this seaweed looks different to the one in your photos.
Of course it surely can, I've tried setting something here in windward Carrriacou but the populist thought of it as being far fetched so i wasn't getting much help. The Government did held workshops in the community to listen and try to come with solutions to get rid of it but cliche the government hasn't come back to us so we'er stock with our wheelbarrows for now .
What a same that the populist think of it being far fetched.
That using the sargasso algae for useful purposes as bio fuel, fertilizers an even perfumes and beauty products where beyond us.My people lack innovation and insight about the world an always assumes life to be in their own bad experiences, an that's why we continue to be in depth sad:(..
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thank you so much my dear;)