Red Tide

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Kenomac

Get used to it, obtain medication or stay home. The red tide is a part of nature.

Lol. Ok. Take a pull off a chlorine tank, tough it out, get medication for it and let me know how that goes. Same thing

[Kenomac]

Originally Posted by danielamartindm

What "medication" is there for the terrible smell of rotting, dead fish and toxins that cause runny nose and respiratory irritation? You think people should just take an antihistamine and tough it out because YOU say so? Typhoid is a part of nature too. Get used to it, take medicine or remain in isolation?

Originally Posted by Chotu

Lol. Ok. Take a pull off a chlorine tank, tough it out, get medication for it and let me know how that goes. Same thing

Ok, then go down to the shoreline and demand nature stop producing the red tide and see how that works out for you. And while you're at it, see if you can get the tide to stop going up and down.

[senormechanico]

I wish our tide would stop permanently at high so I could get my boat out of the lagoon whenever I want.

[danielamartindm]

As a follow up, the red tide seems to be gone, from onshore Pinellas County (Clearwater to Egmont Key) anyway; and just as an anecdotal observation, the water in Boca Ciega Bay behind my home is clearer than I've ever seen it. Strange.

[contrail]

Originally Posted by Nicholson58

I thought huge blooms were linked to excessive fertility. This could certainly be heightened by the fertilizer stream pouring in from the Mississippi.

Sargasso blooms are making a mess in the Caribbean for the last few years now. I wondered about the flume from Rio and other polluted S American rivers possibly being part of the problem.

Oddly, and quite rapidly, the Sargasso has completely disappeared from the BVI. No idea where it has gone.