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Mexican Caribbean Is Seeing The Biggest Seaweed Arrival Of 2024 Season

Last updated: 2024/04/10 at 6:54 AM
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Gorgeous turquoise waters of the Mexican Caribbean have turned brown in latest days due to an enormous arrival of seaweed.

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Why is the seaweed season solely beginning now?What’s inflicting sargassum seaweed?

The seaweed scenario within the Mexican Caribbean had been very optimistic within the first 3 months of 2024. Varied reviews confirmed notably much less sargassum than within the earlier seaweed seasons however that modified on April 6. Vacationers within the Mexican Caribbean and our journalists within the space began importing pictures to our Facebook seaweed reporting group of what appears to be a serious improve in sargassum arrival on fashionable seashores like Playa del Carmen, Playacar, Tulum, and so on.

Video recorded by our journalist on April 6 showcases the primary arrival on Coco seashore in Playa del Carmen which was completely clear the day earlier than.


Seaweed arrival on April 6, Coco Seashore, Playa del Carmen – Mexico
Supply: Touring Life-style

On April 8, a seasoned traveler Brendan H., lamented how a lot seashores in Mexico have modified within the final 20 years: “My spouse and I’ve been vacationing in Playa for over 20 years. Sargassum ruined it. So unhappy!”

“Final time I used to be there [Playacar], the seashore was loaded with it [sargassum], the resort had a tractor to clear it driving backwards and forwards all day, it didn’t assist a lot. Local weather change in motion,” stated a beachgoer named Simon R., on April 9.


Supply: FB Group – Sargassum Seaweed Updates (Cancun, PDC, Tulum)

Supply: FB Group – Sargassum Seaweed Updates (Cancun, PDC, Tulum)

Supply: FB Group – Sargassum Seaweed Updates (Cancun, PDC, Tulum)

Supply: FB Group – Sargasso Seaweed Updates Riviera Maya

Different seashores like Isla Mujeres, which traditionally have been protected against sargassum for its privileged geographical place, have additionally began to obtain some quantities of the smelly seaweed: “Truly. [I] was there in the present day on the south aspect. Was not good. Cloudy, seaweed and ugly,” stated Patty Drinkwater on April 8.

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Different vacationers have caught cleansing personnel on digital camera acutely working heavy equipment to eliminate the algae invading some seashores of Playa del Carmen, but it surely appears simply unimaginable to get all of it out of the water.

Video recorded by our journalist on April 9:

Why is the seaweed season solely beginning now?

Authorities, beachgoers, and native distributors have been reporting a major discount in sargassum arrival all through the start 12 months.

In accordance with Bartolo Canché, an aquatic tour vendor, by the tip of January 2023, Tulum was coated with sargasum. This 12 months as an alternative, the primary sargassum blobs began to reach on the finish of March.

Sargassum collected on Tulum, Cobá, Playa del Carmen, Tancah, and Pole seashores between January and February 2024, was 800 tones lower than in the identical timeframe in 2023.

Thus far, gentle temperatures within the ocean have stored sargassum at bay. However summer season is across the nook and the inevitable will occur and the Mexican Caribbean will begin seeing extra sargassum in weeks and months.

What’s inflicting sargassum seaweed?


April 9, 2024 – Coco Seashore, Playa del Carmen – Mexico
Supply: Touring Life-style

Martín Meléndez, Professor on the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC), explains that the rise in water temperatures, world warming and an extra of vitamins discharged into oceans by the agricultural trade are inflicting sargassum to develop uncontrollably and head to Caribbean seashores “with out the assistance of cyclones.” 

That’s why, he says, we’re seeing sargassum all year long and never solely throughout summer season when excessive temperatures favor its replica.  

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Sargassum originates on the north finish of the Amazon River and the coasts of West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Ghana. Then, thermohaline currents (brought on by temperature and salt) convey it to the Caribbean.

Regardless, this time round, the forecast will not be as obscure because it was in earlier years.

Diego Reina Anduze, Director of “The 7 Natural Wonders of America,” acknowledged that the battle towards sargassum requires synergy amongst governments, scientists, native communities, and the personal tourism trade. 

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