Mexican Navy collects 1.5 tons of Sargassum along the Caribbean beaches

The Mexican Navy recently announced that the 1.5 tonnes of annoying Sargassum Seaweed collected for the Mexican Caribbean coast. This makes beach access and swimming in the warm, blue sea along the Riviera Maya of Mexico much more pleasant.

The project started in the Mahahual region and it will extend to all beaches in the state of Quintan Roo. This includes Cancun, the island of Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Puerto Morelos and other coastal areas. Although it offers habitat for many marine organisms, Sargassum attracts flying, mosquitoes and other insects. It also has a very unpleasant scent when the seaweed releases toxic gases while it dissects!

The brown seaweed is worn by the Caribbean movements and wind to the different beaches. According to Health officials at Da n, (Diver’s Alert Network) Washing the huge piles of seaweed on the Florida Atlantic and Eastern Caribbian coasts are part of the North Equatorial Recirculation Region (NERR). Fresh water from this region, including the Brazilian Amazon River Delta and the Congo River of Africa, carries chemicals of fertilizers. The chemicals mix in the tropical seawater of the Atlantic Ocean to feed a thick mass of seaweed in an area known as the Sargasso Sea. This is also part of a region that is unofficially known as the Bermuda triangle!

Cleaning the beaches

Hotels and resorts along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico and Belize Hark de beaches every day to eliminate the seaweed. Nobody can predict when and exactly where the streams will wash the Sargasso. As a result, the resorts and local parks must patrol on the beaches every day. Although January to April are the most important months for Sargasso to wash on the beaches, the seaweed comes all year round.

Keeping water clear from the seaweed mass improves marine life of the sea, important for fish. Large floating beds of Sargassum can smother fish and injure both outboard engines and inboard engines. Charter boats for great play fishing, diving, snorkeling and other water sports need clear waters to work effectively.

The Mexican Navy continues to work in the eleventh Marinezone to keep the Mexican Caribbean coastal beaches and coastal waters clean that everyone can enjoy.