They should leave it alone - haven't we learned this yet? I would surmise that the Sargassum on the beach is likely a land builder and would have a chance at saving the coast in a storm - however, it's ugly and it smells for a while - so they bulldoze it away. I think this is a huge mistake. The planet continually tries to heal itself and we continually disrupt that process.
U took the words out of my mouth, land builder. Sargassum is also home for marine life. It provides shelter for baby sea turtles. It just collides with the human desire to have sandy white beaches, which we must replenish artificially to keep our condos from falling into the sea.
It’s political. Politicians will claim its toxic, a specialist doctor will have the cure (several booster shots of course) and the “news” will report how many lives the wonderful doctor saved. Humm 🤔… Coved 23 comes to mind.
Obviously you people didn't even watch the video. None of the people in the video are advocating for extermination of seaweed. Watch the video before you comment.
Owners of businesses near the beach may not like the seaweed that washed onto the shore, but the seaweed is natural and is biodegradable. In the old days before artificial fertilizers, some farmers used seaweed to enrich their soil.
As a small child in key west Florida my grandmother would walk to the beach with us and collect bags of it to crush and spread it on her lawn as fertilizer. Her palm trees, key lime trees, aloe plants, mango trees, and lawn were green and always so plentiful. The smell reminds me of wonderful times as a child growing up in south Florida and the Florida keys.
To be fair, the seaweed has more right to the beach than people since the ocean is its home and we're just tourists there. But people will be people and put profits and aesthetics before everything else.
Iit doesn't seem like the researchers are anti-seaweed, more just concerned with a such a large bloom of it. It might point to a greater problem with ocean conditions.
We in the Caribbean have been going through this for the last 5 years or so. However, for those thinking of using it as fertilizer be careful. It can increase the salinity of the soil which is not good for all crops.
some salt is ok for some soils and crops...just wash it off in rain water...if you have worms you could pre compost it a bit and give it to your worms and use the castings in the soil..where there is a need, there is a way...
@@PermanentHigh Bro, there's sodium _in_ the plant, not just on it. Why do you think seaweed tastes salty even when washed? Moreover, sargassum seaweed in particular contains high amounts of arsenic, so unless you want heavy metal poisoning you definitely shouldn't be putting this anywhere near soil or food. Not to mention the hydrogen sulfide gasses emitted as it rots can cause nausea and lung irritation, or worse if someone has pre-existing conditions like asthma. This is not just plain old seaweed, it's more toxic than a frat house.
Biofuels won't help global warming. Anything you burn produces Co2. Oil from the earth was made 100's of millions of years ago from plant matter and biofuels are also made from plant matter. Global warming is a total fraud anyway. If you noticed, It only took 2 seconds... While they didn't say climate change anywhere in the clip, they did have a "climate challenge" graphic, what ever that means. A very subtle mind manipulation for you.
Sargassum absorbs cadmium and lead and arsenic and other heavy metals from the ocean, so no, you really shouldn't use it as compost or fertilizer, especially for food crops. It also gives off nasty rotten egg smelling hydrogen sulfide gas as it rots and it can trigger asthma are breathing difficulties in susceptible people.
@@rockyjohnson9243Sargassum specifically has been shown to contain elevated levels of arsenic and heavy metals and when used as fertiliser produce grown may also contain unsafe levels, this has been found in studies of potential use of sargassum
Hadn't looked at it that way. In Florida you may be right. In the Caribbean it's far more serious because of its impact on their vital tourist industry. One island there needs 1600 dump trucks a day to gather it all from the beaches according to a different new report.
It’s called a hyper-bloom,caused from nutrients that enter the oceans Gulf Stream via polluted rivers globally. It causes the sargasso to bloom bigger faster and die quicker. It also carry’s heavy metals like arsenic and codium, so it can’t be used as fertilizer.
The naiveness of people on the beach that think oceans only consist of just water, sand, and fish. And that sea weed... a plant that helps oxygenate the water is a problem
I saw a Utube vlog a couple of years age where a different Florida scientist satated it's unusual growth is due to elevated nitrogen levels in the ocean due to treated sewage being pumped into it. The same scientist stated that the city of Miami pumps 23 million gallons a day into the ocean. There is an outlet about 3 miles out. Most local boaters know where it is. They call it the belly button or something like that. Think about how much sewage a cruse ship wit 5000 people on it dumps in the ocean ?
FL has sewer lines and treats all its human waste, turning solids in fertilizer pellets. The nitrogenous run off from farming byproducts and other corporate waste dumped in the Mississippi is what causes Gulf blooms.
Seawed are one of the highest creators of Oxygen. Not only that it can be used to make biofuel and replace plastics. I rather see patches of seaweed over patches of microplastics.
It's most likely cleaning the ocean from the pollutants put into the ocean. Just trees scrub pollutants from the air, this is scrubbing the ocean as well
Here's a riddle for your students: "How can sea levels change more in 24 hours, than they can in 240 years?" -- PS any student that answers correctly will receive a gift certificate for one large pizza
Born and raised on the beach in Florida both and avid fishermen and surfer. Some years are worse than other however every year we get seaweed like this.
Climate change is a total fraud. You mentioned climate change not because they mentioned it in the clip, but because they had a "climate challenge" graphic on the lower 3rd. They are controlling your mind.
cleans coastal waters by removing excess nutrients from runoff, and absorbs carbon dioxide from the water which protects shelled animals (like oysters) from ocean acidification. Extra CO2 in the ecosystem.
Those seaweeds come with tiny shrimp, crabs and fish. It is fun to find those creatures. Sometimes, crabs can pinch your skin while you are swimming with those seaweeds.
Mother nature is finally responding to the pollution that we have contaminated our oceans. It's arrogant to think that we have no repercussions with mother nature
Probably the most effective use would be carbon capture. Dry it out, compress it into blocks and bury it where it won't rot. It may also be possible to heat distill it to manufacture renewable industrial chemicals and biofuels like methanol.
@@rtqii Don't just think about it. Draw up a plan, contact people, and sell yourself and the product. If Florida doesn't let you have it for free just to get rid of it, I can't imagine it would cost much. Don't forget to add in the cost of the trucks, employees to put it in the trucks, and storage. Show a good plan to a bank and you can get a loan. Much luck to you.
When sargassum comes ashore in SMALL AMOUNTS, sargassum can be beneficial. It can provide food for shorebirds and crabs, as well as building up the sand to help prevent coastal erosion. Seaweed mixed into the sand provides a healthy environment for beach stabilizing plants like Railroad Vine and Sea Purslane. However, when sargassum comes ashore in large mats, it has the potential to become an anaerobic stinking mess. As it breaks down it releases hydrogen sulfide gas and deprives the immediate surroundings of oxygen. The anoxic waters around rotting seaweed can lead to large scale fish die-offs (ie. red tide). The fresh thick mats also create a difficult environment for mammals and sea turtles who can be come entangled and drown. Even strong swimmers should avoid swimming when waters are thick with sargassum." Great amounts of sargassum washing ashore may reveal unbalanced environment of land and sea.
the rising sea levels that have yet to take any beaches with them. Where is all of this sea rise going? I'm still going to the same beach I went to 35 years ago.
We get that all the time on the Texas coast. It’s fun because it harbors all the small animals like they said in the video. It is unsettling though when it brushes your legs in the water.
"Every so often" is a thing of the past though. It's now 6-8 consecutive months of the year. Feb-October around Cancun. Definitely not the historical norm
President B supports the seaweed's right to use any restroom it wants, play sports against girls, de-fund the Miami PD, call itself a girl and expose itself to 14 year old real girls, de-criminalize property crime if committed by the darker colored seaweed, and give it a free place to live if it's addicted to Dragon's Breath.
That's sargassum not seaweed...we deal with it every year on the Texas Gulf Coast. It feeds many sea animals and shore birds...so...all you tree huggers should consider it a great thing.
Yes actually I am marine biology was my first love oceanography as well biology most certainly stuck with me as I became Medical been scuba diving these Waters keeping saltwater aquariums spearfishing Lobster hunting up and down these coasts since 1960 y'all need to get a grip there's nothing wrong with seaweed
I think it's about impact to the economy. Nobody is going to vacation in Florida or the Caribbean if the beaches are neck deep in rotting seaweed. And more than half of their economies are tourism.
@@barbaraemanuel1379 Wait until it hits the beaches and starts rotting. You won't think it's normal then. I been living in Seattle for 66 years. 80 degrees in April is NOT normal.
I’m 67, lived on the Gulf Coast all my whole life, and this exact seaweed has only been coming ashore for my entire life. This story is the biggest, smelliest, crock of $&!# than I’ve ever seen. Seaweed smells good compared to this story.
Seaweed fuel Butanol can be made from algae or diatoms using only a solar powered biorefinery. This fuel has an energy density 10% less than gasoline, and greater than that of either ethanol or methanol. In most gasoline engines, butanol can be used in place of gasoline with no modifications.
Heading for Florida??? Ummm just gonna say. Was in FT.Lauderdale at my timeshare from 4/14-4/21 and it was a foot high every morning on the beaches . So heading for Florida. It’s been there for weeks folks ,weeks
As a child, I remember catching shrimp by gathering seaweed that washed up and shaking them out in a bucket on Galveston island. After the huge piles dried up, the only thing that was unbearable was the dead shrimp rotting and decomposing. There were flies everywhere. The smell was so bad we couldn't hang out on the beach anymore. A solution could be to bag most of it up and send off to a kelp/seaweed fertilizing company. Companies could get money back for helping or if not, companies unfortunately might need a money incentive to help out.
He can't do anything about it as removal, treatment, or pesticides all have ecological ramifications, but by all means continue your pompously ignorant political tirade of which you understand nothing.
@@SquidProQuo80 He won't be able to do anything about the blue wave that is going to hit him in 2024 either. You are outnumbered and losing votes before you are even getting there.
What about the guy in the SUV (car manufacturer hired a attractive guy with balls that had a rake attachment and cleaned up the beaches) Golden opportunity to prove your work.
I will never cease to amaze me these reporters acting like this is new granted its more prolific nowadays but sargazam has been washing ashore in florida since the beginning of time and as for what's causing the increase try the amount of fertilizer we've dumped into the oceans for decades
We gave the sea the overload of nitrogen from overuse in farm country, she bloomed with extremely nutritious sea plants. It would behoove mankind to utilize this bounty once it washes ashore. What use you ask? FERTILIZER on crops inland. Compost it, bag it, sell it. Grind it and apply it to land. (Or just haul it to landfills. And further waste more precious resources. Our species sometimes can't do the obvious.)
This isn’t anything new. Almost every year I’ve gone to Florida on vacation since being young there’s always been this massive seaweed invasion. Just 3 years ago on my bachelor party in Ft. Lauderdale it looked worst than this.
You’re correct it’s been around forever, but not in this concentration- and the sargassum is collecting heavy metals, which makes it unsuitable for common uses in the past.
Flowing off of the coast of Africa, like tradewinds...I wonder if the lengthy and massively productive volcanic eruption on LaPalma in the Canary Islands played a role?
Quite possibly actually. One of the theories is that sewage dumping from cities and cruise ships has been putting elevated amounts of nitrogen into the ocean which fuels plant growth, but a volcanic eruption would do that also. Naturally, the answer is probably both, and they're probably only two of several factors, some nitrogen-related and some not, that are all creating a perfect storm to fuel the phenomenal explosion in sargassum growth.
HERE IN HAWAII WE HAWAIIANS GROW UP EATING ALL KINDS OF SEAWEEDS. JUST WONDERING IF IT'S EDIBLE? ALSO, WE LOVE FINDING PATCHES OF DEBRIS IN THE OCEAN WHEN TROLLING FOR THE GAME IT ATTRACTS. JUST TROLLING THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE PATCHES WOULD BE A BONUS! ALOHA FROM KAUA'I!
No, this is not your Hawaiian seaweed. And collects heavy-metal. It contains arsenic. It’s not something you could eat or are used as fertilizer for anything you want to eat
@@nealskrenes2612 THEN THAT IS SKETCHY FOR THE PEOPLE LIVING AROUND THE PATCHES. AND THAT WOULD AFFECT A VAST NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND THE FISHERMEN BECAUSE THE PATCHES ARE SOOO WIDE! PRETTY SCARY THEN.
@@keithcontrades1191 yes islands in the Caribbean have been dealing with this problem for a decade, but suddenly become exponentially worse; and always *ecologists and environmentalists are at war with capitalist, business interests.* _Often unintended consequences alike the _*_destruction of sea turtle nest, grounds or existing nests_*_ could result in attempting to clean the beach for residence and tourists._
reporter: please listen carefully to the technician's pronounciation of the word. its sargassum, as spelled, not sargazm. like sargasso sea, not sargazzo sea.😅
Didn't know it had reached Florida already. From the comments below it would be wonderful if it could be utilized in some way, for fertilizer or even as food it it's edible.
Are you kidding??? Ron would think that was too WOKE. He won't do anything accept let Florida stink. See, When you are a HUMAN PIECE OF $HIT, even rotting algae smells good.
@@martinwinther6013 I wouldn't recommend people eat it due to high concentrations of arsenic and other heavy metals. But it could be used as biofuel and the ash can be filtered for heavy metals then sold for fertilizer.
The stuff that gets beached could get collected, dried and the salt leached. It's some of the best material to add to the land for improving soild quality--now that we have done wonders to deplete it!
@@charlesroberts3650 It also consumes oxygen and releases toxic chemicals into the air as it decomposes, and that's after it kills all sorts of marine life, so not so excellent.
@Dargonhuman Mother Nature making adjustments for what we have been doing to the environment. I have kept my carbon and other emissions footprint as small as possible for the past 45+ years. We should all have.
Just back home in Maryland from my Miami Beach condo. My condo is about 100 yards from the most beautiful beach near 52nd and Collins Ave. The City ‘sweeps’ the beach daily and gathers it all up. Miami-Dade County has innovative disposal methods. But (big BUT) the sargassum does provide a beneficial habitat for various fish and sea turtles. Apparently, it originates from high levels of nutrients being dumped into the Amazon. Oh, well….
They should leave it alone - haven't we learned this yet? I would surmise that the Sargassum on the beach is likely a land builder and would have a chance at saving the coast in a storm - however, it's ugly and it smells for a while - so they bulldoze it away. I think this is a huge mistake. The planet continually tries to heal itself and we continually disrupt that process.
I agree with you on this.
U took the words out of my mouth, land builder. Sargassum is also home for marine life. It provides shelter for baby sea turtles. It just collides with the human desire to have sandy white beaches, which we must replenish artificially to keep our condos from falling into the sea.
Oh no there’s seaweed….in the ocean…what will we ever do! I agree, just leave it alone.
It’s political. Politicians will claim its toxic, a specialist doctor will have the cure (several booster shots of course) and the “news” will report how many lives the wonderful doctor saved. Humm 🤔… Coved 23 comes to mind.
Obviously you people didn't even watch the video. None of the people in the video are advocating for extermination of seaweed. Watch the video before you comment.
Owners of businesses near the beach may not like the seaweed that washed onto the shore, but the seaweed is natural and is biodegradable. In the old days before artificial fertilizers, some farmers used seaweed to enrich their soil.
Now the elites wants to use human corpse for fertilizer.
There are plenty of of things we could use this for once it washes ashore. Fertilizer is probably the best and most obvious
That was my first thought exactly - there isn't a farmer or landscaper that can use this for something?
@@markberryhill2715 right?
The problem with sargassum is it may contain large amounts of heavy metals like arsenic and cadmium.
As a small child in key west Florida my grandmother would walk to the beach with us and collect bags of it to crush and spread it on her lawn as fertilizer. Her palm trees, key lime trees, aloe plants, mango trees, and lawn were green and always so plentiful.
The smell reminds me of wonderful times as a child growing up in south Florida and the Florida keys.
Don’t know when that was but nowadays, it contains a lot of heavy metals.
Smart grandma 😊
@@nealskrenes2612 it’s really actually the bomb for using for fertilizer they are allowing people to get it by the truck down in ft. Laud
@@geemama420 it's actually toxic for plants
It’s actually good as a fertilizer, just don’t use it to fertilize consumables.
Feels like the beach is protecting itself
Or purging itself.
from muppets throwing trash down. i sure hope so
To be fair, the seaweed has more right to the beach than people since the ocean is its home and we're just tourists there. But people will be people and put profits and aesthetics before everything else.
You are so right, I totally agree. I was thinking the same. Best comment I have seen so far.
Iit doesn't seem like the researchers are anti-seaweed, more just concerned with a such a large bloom of it. It might point to a greater problem with ocean conditions.
Really? Plants and rights in the same sentence. Should they be able to vote too?
So now seaweed has rights? How many genders does it have?
You must have no friends nor a family I see
We in the Caribbean have been going through this for the last 5 years or so. However, for those thinking of using it as fertilizer be careful. It can increase the salinity of the soil which is not good for all crops.
some salt is ok for some soils and crops...just wash it off in rain water...if you have worms you could pre compost it a bit and give it to your worms and use the castings in the soil..where there is a need, there is a way...
Bro just wash it. What a dumb statement to make. Why is that not your first thought?
We get waayyy too much rain for that ever to be a problem in my area. Plus you can spray it with water before putting into your compost.
@@PermanentHigh Bro, there's sodium _in_ the plant, not just on it. Why do you think seaweed tastes salty even when washed? Moreover, sargassum seaweed in particular contains high amounts of arsenic, so unless you want heavy metal poisoning you definitely shouldn't be putting this anywhere near soil or food. Not to mention the hydrogen sulfide gasses emitted as it rots can cause nausea and lung irritation, or worse if someone has pre-existing conditions like asthma. This is not just plain old seaweed, it's more toxic than a frat house.
Feed it to cattle
A wonderful and well-deserved gift.
Honestly, those huge concentrations of seaweed are a goldmine. Seaweed is one of the best ingredients used to produce biofuels.
Biofuels won't help global warming. Anything you burn produces Co2. Oil from the earth was made 100's of millions of years ago from plant matter and biofuels are also made from plant matter. Global warming is a total fraud anyway.
If you noticed, It only took 2 seconds...
While they didn't say climate change anywhere in the clip, they did have a "climate challenge" graphic, what ever that means.
A very subtle mind manipulation for you.
It also is the number one source of driving tourists off beaches and hatching flies
Tourists definitely should be the main thought when maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
@roy dunn oh no a fire in a thin patch right next the ocean what ever will we do?!
@@geargeekpdx3566 I never even noticed the smell of it ngl
The ocean is fed up with our activities and letting us know
Exactly. Just like the punitive weather all over the US with major floods to come from all that snow. Mother Nature has had enough.
The ocean is not a sentient being. It cannot be “fed up” with anything.
Yah (God) is fed up it is written
You all are ridiculous lol
More like we have damaged the ecosystem by overfishing. Now it’s reached the point of plant life taking over.
I wonder if seaweed is nature's way of protecting sea life. And...is there a way to use this for biochar and other uses?
it can be used as a food source i assume and also fertilizer :)
Sargassum absorbs cadmium and lead and arsenic and other heavy metals from the ocean, so no, you really shouldn't use it as compost or fertilizer, especially for food crops. It also gives off nasty rotten egg smelling hydrogen sulfide gas as it rots and it can trigger asthma are breathing difficulties in susceptible people.
Absolutely
@@rockyjohnson9243Sargassum specifically has been shown to contain elevated levels of arsenic and heavy metals and when used as fertiliser produce grown may also contain unsafe levels, this has been found in studies of potential use of sargassum
@@kronop8884 Makes since the ocean is a waste dump
So in other words, nothing bad is happening except for some slight inconveniences.
oh now , you know how the media has to hype everything up because they have to sell anti anxiety meds....its all about the benjamins not the truth!
Hadn't looked at it that way. In Florida you may be right. In the Caribbean it's far more serious because of its impact on their vital tourist industry. One island there needs 1600 dump trucks a day to gather it all from the beaches according to a different new report.
It’s called a hyper-bloom,caused from nutrients that enter the oceans Gulf Stream via polluted rivers globally.
It causes the sargasso to bloom bigger faster and die quicker.
It also carry’s heavy metals like arsenic and codium, so it can’t be used as fertilizer.
Heavy metals are so hazardous...their filtration is also very difficult
all seaweed carries those things and always have smh.
@@keetahbrough Not all seaweeds. Mostly seaweeds in polluted seas do.
It's fed from deep ocean upwelling, not river runoff.
@@francismarion6400 But how that is possible?
'It looks gross and it's really unattractive', sums up the current state of humanity and where we are heading
The naiveness of people on the beach that think oceans only consist of just water, sand, and fish. And that sea weed... a plant that helps oxygenate the water is a problem
Thanks a lot, DeSantis!
Really? 🤦🏼♂️👍🤡
I saw a Utube vlog a couple of years age where a different Florida scientist satated it's unusual growth is due to elevated nitrogen levels in the ocean due to treated sewage being pumped into it. The same scientist stated that the city of Miami pumps 23 million gallons a day into the ocean. There is an outlet about 3 miles out. Most local boaters know where it is. They call it the belly button or something like that. Think about how much sewage a cruse ship wit 5000 people on it dumps in the ocean ?
bs.
So disgusting 🤮
@@francismarion6400 where do you think all the untreated waste goes?
@@francismarion6400 Look it up!!
FL has sewer lines and treats all its human waste, turning solids in fertilizer pellets. The nitrogenous run off from farming byproducts and other corporate waste dumped in the Mississippi is what causes Gulf blooms.
DeSantis said he is going to ban the seaweed. Right after he is done beating up on Mickey.
😂😂😂
Right now Mickey is clubbing DeSantis like he's a helpless baby seal..😂😂😂
Seawed are one of the highest creators of Oxygen. Not only that it can be used to make biofuel and replace plastics. I rather see patches of seaweed over patches of microplastics.
True !!! And some people think they are growing in excess due to ferts run off so they absorb our pollution ... Which is good
It's most likely cleaning the ocean from the pollutants put into the ocean. Just trees scrub pollutants from the air, this is scrubbing the ocean as well
Precisely Well said
correct. my thoughts too. nature is cleaning itself. increasing co2, high temperature and other pollutants
The stuff is toxic
@@KC73 No it's not.
I used to love this stuff! All the little fish and shrimp live on them and it’s so fun to put in little buckets and see what lives in it.
You sound like a beach child. Fun times!
This has got to be a blessing. That bloom has to be good. We just need to find a way to use it.
Gardeners can collect it, hose it off thoroughly to remove the salt, then use it for mulch & compost.
Asians eat seaweed for snack
@@wandalea9 only after it washes on the beach
It would make great biofuel, surely.
Toasted seaweed lavers are healthy snack alternatives and expensive too
I feel like anyone who has ever had an aquarium could've predicted this.
Wouldn't this stuff make good fertilizer?
Yup need some 😂
No, it's toxic
@@KC73 no it's not
Sargassum is high in arsenic. Might be ok for ornamentals, not food crops.
It raises the beach, helps build sand dunes, prevents erosion
My 5th graders are studying this right now. Perfect timing!
Here's a riddle for your students: "How can sea levels change more in 24 hours, than they can in 240 years?" -- PS any student that answers correctly will receive a gift certificate for one large pizza
Born and raised on the beach in Florida both and avid fishermen and surfer. Some years are worse than other however every year we get seaweed like this.
It's the hate in florida....it's attracting this....DeSatan made a deal......
So true! This state is a complete mess!
That's fantastic. Seaweed is good at fighting cllimate change.
Yes, when Mother Gaia gets cold, she puts on her coat.
Well climate change is not heating only, polluting and other destroying earth, farming causes eco system breaking
no, it's not.
Climate change is a total fraud.
You mentioned climate change not because they mentioned it in the clip, but because they had a "climate challenge" graphic on the lower 3rd.
They are controlling your mind.
not this one
cleans coastal waters by removing excess nutrients from runoff, and absorbs carbon dioxide from the water which protects shelled animals (like oysters) from ocean acidification. Extra CO2 in the ecosystem.
Those seaweeds come with tiny shrimp, crabs and fish. It is fun to find those creatures. Sometimes, crabs can pinch your skin while you are swimming with those seaweeds.
Haha
It's made from 50% sea, 50% weed
🤭🤭🤭
Mother nature is finally responding to the pollution that we have contaminated our oceans. It's arrogant to think that we have no repercussions with mother nature
It's alive and thriving. Pollution would be killing it.
@glidercoach Dumb down Americans think they know everything by assumption. Do some research and find out what seaweed really is
Is there some company that harvest seaweed and could utalize all the seaweed
Yeah I do
Everything on earth can be utilized for something. Whoever comes up with a use for this will make a fortune.
Probably the most effective use would be carbon capture. Dry it out, compress it into blocks and bury it where it won't rot. It may also be possible to heat distill it to manufacture renewable industrial chemicals and biofuels like methanol.
@@rtqii Don't just think about it. Draw up a plan, contact people, and sell yourself and the product. If Florida doesn't let you have it for free just to get rid of it, I can't imagine it would cost much. Don't forget to add in the cost of the trucks, employees to put it in the trucks, and storage. Show a good plan to a bank and you can get a loan. Much luck to you.
@@tootz1950 Wish I could but I am simply not the person for this job. Too old, too disabled to get involved with a 100 million tons of sargassum.
When sargassum comes ashore in SMALL AMOUNTS, sargassum can be beneficial. It can provide food for shorebirds and crabs, as well as building up the sand to help prevent coastal erosion. Seaweed mixed into the sand provides a healthy environment for beach stabilizing plants like Railroad Vine and Sea Purslane.
However, when sargassum comes ashore in large mats, it has the potential to become an anaerobic stinking mess. As it breaks down it releases hydrogen sulfide gas and deprives the immediate surroundings of oxygen. The anoxic waters around rotting seaweed can lead to large scale fish die-offs (ie. red tide). The fresh thick mats also create a difficult environment for mammals and sea turtles who can be come entangled and drown. Even strong swimmers should avoid swimming when waters are thick with sargassum."
Great amounts of sargassum washing ashore may reveal unbalanced environment of land and sea.
Hire people to dig up the excess and compost it or turn it into fertilizer.
Finally someone with sense
Well I'm certain desantis could ask Disney for help with the seaweed
Grow up
Disney could employ Sebastain the Crab to make a song about it.
Why don't they just collect it and donate it to the several companies that are using seaweed and turning it into eco plastic.
Actually happens all the time. Circle of life so to speak.
You'd be dumb to believe this Russian. It's not normal for blobs larger than Alaska to form
Just leave it alone. It's supposed to be there. The ocean isn't a backyard swimming pool that's to be manipulated for aesthetic tourism.
Nature’s way of protecting Florida from rising sea levels.
Fairy tales
Rising sea levels? How much is the world economic forum paying climate scientists to form such conclusions?! 🙈
the rising sea levels that have yet to take any beaches with them. Where is all of this sea rise going? I'm still going to the same beach I went to 35 years ago.
@@jadesea562 there’s still people like Al gore who think Florida will be underwater. This fairy tale has gone on since the 80’s at least.
Can nature protect Florida from de Santos?
If I hear anything about it getting dumped in a landfill and not being reused as something else. I will be disappointed in humanity, once again.
We get that all the time on the Texas coast. It’s fun because it harbors all the small animals like they said in the video. It is unsettling though when it brushes your legs in the water.
Governor DeSantis should eat it
I was on vacation last year in Cancun, and it was all over the beach in large quantities.
This story gave me a sargasim.
It's not a mystery. This happens every so often. I was in Cancun a few years ago and the beaches there (and in the Gulf) were loaded with sargassum.
"Every so often" is a thing of the past though. It's now 6-8 consecutive months of the year. Feb-October around Cancun. Definitely not the historical norm
Surprised dead weeds would even consider Florida.
Florida Man Attacks Again
It’s actually alive until it hits the beach 👍🤦🏼♂️🤡
I blame Al Gore’s fleet of SUVs
are you being sargastic?
Anticipating Floridians to declare seaweed as WOKE
There’s a reason you have no likes 👍🤦🏼♂️🤡
President B supports the seaweed's right to use any restroom it wants, play sports against girls, de-fund the Miami PD, call itself a girl and expose itself to 14 year old real girls, de-criminalize property crime if committed by the darker colored seaweed, and give it a free place to live if it's addicted to Dragon's Breath.
That's sargassum not seaweed...we deal with it every year on the Texas Gulf Coast. It feeds many sea animals and shore birds...so...all you tree huggers should consider it a great thing.
Isn't this great for oxygen production? Hopefully it can be harvested for farmed shrimp and/or crabs.
Oooh! I love shrimp cocktails!
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 I love pizza
Think i heard it actually blocks oxygen production
How can people be so uneducated? Why comment at all?
@@francismarion6400 Huh? Did I get something wrong?
Thats amazing compost for your garden
Yes actually I am marine biology was my first love oceanography as well biology most certainly stuck with me as I became Medical been scuba diving these Waters keeping saltwater aquariums spearfishing Lobster hunting up and down these coasts since 1960 y'all need to get a grip there's nothing wrong with seaweed
It has to be "life-threatening" to be newsworthy.
@@kathyduby8150 Anything and everything can and will be sensationalized to keep those ratings up :P.
Lived here 69 yrs seaweed is normal
I think it's about impact to the economy. Nobody is going to vacation in Florida or the Caribbean if the beaches are neck deep in rotting seaweed. And more than half of their economies are tourism.
@@barbaraemanuel1379 Wait until it hits the beaches and starts rotting.
You won't think it's normal then.
I been living in Seattle for 66 years.
80 degrees in April is NOT normal.
Sea ice is also a natural floating ecosystem.
I’m 67, lived on the Gulf Coast all my whole life, and this exact seaweed has only been coming ashore for my entire life. This story is the biggest, smelliest, crock of $&!# than I’ve ever seen. Seaweed smells good compared to this story.
I think the smell isn’t that bad
Seaweed fuel
Butanol can be made from algae or diatoms using only a solar powered biorefinery. This fuel has an energy density 10% less than gasoline, and greater than that of either ethanol or methanol. In most gasoline engines, butanol can be used in place of gasoline with no modifications.
Heading for Florida??? Ummm just gonna say. Was in FT.Lauderdale at my timeshare from 4/14-4/21 and it was a foot high every morning on the beaches . So heading for Florida. It’s been there for weeks folks ,weeks
Basically they are saying you ain't seen nothing yet.
Steelcity u went there during the flooding?
You own a timeshare!? 🤣🤦🏼♂️👍
so its a wonderfull gift! COMPOST IT ! GIVE IT TO FARMERS > WHAT A NOVEL IDEAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a child, I remember catching shrimp by gathering seaweed that washed up and shaking them out in a bucket on Galveston island. After the huge piles dried up, the only thing that was unbearable was the dead shrimp rotting and decomposing. There were flies everywhere. The smell was so bad we couldn't hang out on the beach anymore. A solution could be to bag most of it up and send off to a kelp/seaweed fertilizing company. Companies could get money back for helping or if not, companies unfortunately might need a money incentive to help out.
Imagine if this happens every year
It does. Just like clockwork. This is nothing new. They're just out of news to report.
if it hits Florida really bad DeSantis will have to write another book to go on tour and ignore the problem
He can't do anything about it as removal, treatment, or pesticides all have ecological ramifications, but by all means continue your pompously ignorant political tirade of which you understand nothing.
...or commence a Legal Action against God?
@@joecollins1942 ...maybe build a prison next to a temple ?
@@SquidProQuo80 hes too busy fighting the mouse to care about you or other floridians real needs😂😂😂
@@SquidProQuo80 He won't be able to do anything about the blue wave that is going to hit him in 2024 either. You are outnumbered and losing votes before you are even getting there.
What about the guy in the SUV (car manufacturer hired a attractive guy with balls that had a rake attachment and cleaned up the beaches)
Golden opportunity to prove your work.
That is a stupid commercial, and targets a certain audience. Ppppbbbbttt, cleaning the beaches of "woke" Disney's cruiseship trash dumpings.
Haha. Take that DeSantis
I will never cease to amaze me these reporters acting like this is new granted its more prolific nowadays but sargazam has been washing ashore in florida since the beginning of time and as for what's causing the increase try the amount of fertilizer we've dumped into the oceans for decades
It’s really not a big deal and happens every year….
We gave the sea the overload of nitrogen from overuse in farm country, she bloomed with extremely nutritious sea plants. It would behoove mankind to utilize this bounty once it washes ashore.
What use you ask? FERTILIZER on crops inland. Compost it, bag it, sell it. Grind it and apply it to land. (Or just haul it to landfills. And further waste more precious resources. Our species sometimes can't do the obvious.)
I remember this happening in 1985.
It was all over in sarasota in 86, you would surface and it would be on your head, we threw at each other. Full of life, unlike red tide
Aren't plants good for the planet? They tell this story like is some kind of misfortune
It's excellent fertilizer.
seaweed can end world hunger.
This isn’t anything new. Almost every year I’ve gone to Florida on vacation since being young there’s always been this massive seaweed invasion. Just 3 years ago on my bachelor party in Ft. Lauderdale it looked worst than this.
You’re correct it’s been around forever, but not in this concentration- and the sargassum is collecting heavy metals, which makes it unsuitable for common uses in the past.
Correct.
Notice they didn't mention climate change, but did have a "climate challenge" graphic in the lower 3rd.
A very subtle mind control tactic.
No, it's not collecting heavy metals, it's collecting CO2 and producing O2. I swear, where did we get so many unscientific people from?
@@glidercoach if you believe that climate change is not real, you’ve not been paying attention to the melting shrinking ice caps.
Tell those Chinese it is edible and they will take all of it! 😂
They mentioned the smell but left out the part about the biting flies that show up with it.
“researchers still don’t know what is fueling this unprecedented growth”
IT’S AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF !!
WE KNOW WHAT IT IS
Use it to make bio degradable bags, fabric and utensils
Use it to make biodegradable face masks, since you people threw those things on every street in the country.
Hunger in America solved. Florida provides us a bounty of pythons, iguanas, and seaweed!
Looks like the ocean is creating its own filtration system.
why do we keep looking to the least intelligent among us for answers?
Oh maybe temperatures charging, a good amount of agricultural chemical waste..
Exactly that definitely fuels it makes it grow
Whoever named this seaweed was probably very unsatisfied in bed.
Ooooh nooooo the beaches will be covered in organic material instead of the disgusting trash everyone leaves around….
Leave it alone it's there for a reason!
SMH
Flowing off of the coast of Africa, like tradewinds...I wonder if the lengthy and massively productive volcanic eruption on LaPalma in the Canary Islands played a role?
Quite possibly actually. One of the theories is that sewage dumping from cities and cruise ships has been putting elevated amounts of nitrogen into the ocean which fuels plant growth, but a volcanic eruption would do that also. Naturally, the answer is probably both, and they're probably only two of several factors, some nitrogen-related and some not, that are all creating a perfect storm to fuel the phenomenal explosion in sargassum growth.
Sounds incredibly unscientific. lol
Imagine this Alge could be used as a alternative base for plastic instead of oil. 👏
HERE IN HAWAII WE HAWAIIANS GROW UP EATING ALL KINDS OF SEAWEEDS. JUST WONDERING IF IT'S EDIBLE?
ALSO, WE LOVE FINDING PATCHES OF DEBRIS IN THE OCEAN WHEN TROLLING FOR THE GAME IT ATTRACTS. JUST TROLLING THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE PATCHES WOULD BE A BONUS!
ALOHA FROM KAUA'I!
No, this is not your Hawaiian seaweed. And collects heavy-metal. It contains arsenic. It’s not something you could eat or are used as fertilizer for anything you want to eat
@@nealskrenes2612 MAHALO NEIL FOR YOUR INFO! THAT'S TOO BAD.
STILL WONDERING HOW THE GAME IS AROUND THE PATCHES?
@@keithcontrades1191 well, if the game is eating, the small critters, which have fed on the sargassum, I wouldn’t be eating any of it either.
@@nealskrenes2612 THEN THAT IS SKETCHY FOR THE PEOPLE LIVING AROUND THE PATCHES. AND THAT WOULD AFFECT A VAST NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND THE FISHERMEN BECAUSE THE PATCHES ARE SOOO WIDE!
PRETTY SCARY THEN.
@@keithcontrades1191 yes islands in the Caribbean have been dealing with this problem for a decade, but suddenly become exponentially worse; and always *ecologists and environmentalists are at war with capitalist, business interests.* _Often unintended consequences alike the _*_destruction of sea turtle nest, grounds or existing nests_*_ could result in attempting to clean the beach for residence and tourists._
reporter: please listen carefully to the technician's pronounciation of the word. its sargassum, as spelled, not sargazm. like sargasso sea, not sargazzo sea.😅
Didn't know it had reached Florida already. From the comments below it would be wonderful if it could be utilized in some way, for fertilizer or even as food it it's edible.
Are you kidding??? Ron would think that was too WOKE. He won't do anything accept let Florida stink. See, When you are a HUMAN PIECE OF $HIT, even rotting algae smells good.
It hasn't, and it won't.
It's been a problem on Galveston area beaches since forever.
@@palmsofdestin1 but it could
@@martinwinther6013 I wouldn't recommend people eat it due to high concentrations of arsenic and other heavy metals. But it could be used as biofuel and the ash can be filtered for heavy metals then sold for fertilizer.
Is it edible? Start making use of it if we can eat it
MoVe tO FLorIDa ThEy say.
SARGASSUM- happens when my wife is being continually insulting, then goes into fits of uncontrollable laughter.
Its sargasso season. It happens every year. Not to mention its great for fishing. Mahi especially.
Desantis forgets that mickey was a sorcerer's apprentice !
😮 that's sargasum really got me with my eyes and attention all focused on the next Nautical and wet and slimy thing they might say!!! 👀😲😊
The stuff that gets beached could get collected, dried and the salt leached. It's some of the best material to add to the land for improving soild quality--now that we have done wonders to deplete it!
This happens every so many years ppl.
Ya know it has to die so new can grow.
Ron DeSantis says the seaweed is woke....🙄💯👎
The seaweed may be Mother Nature's way of crying out for help. "Stop polluting me"!
Looks like a good thing?
It can really ruin a day on the beach. The stench will drive anyone away.
Excellent!
@@charlesroberts3650 It also consumes oxygen and releases toxic chemicals into the air as it decomposes, and that's after it kills all sorts of marine life, so not so excellent.
@Dargonhuman Mother Nature making adjustments for what we have been doing to the environment. I have kept my carbon and other emissions footprint as small as possible for the past 45+ years. We should all have.
Just back home in Maryland from my Miami Beach condo. My condo is about 100 yards from the most beautiful beach near 52nd and Collins Ave. The City ‘sweeps’ the beach daily and gathers it all up. Miami-Dade County has innovative disposal methods. But (big BUT) the sargassum does provide a beneficial habitat for various fish and sea turtles. Apparently, it originates from high levels of nutrients being dumped into the Amazon. Oh, well….
Nature runs its course. It deposits seaweed on the beach