Has anyone seen this in Negril?

[Todd]

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/08...?intcmp=hplnws

[IRIEchic]

I hope not! 2.5 sleeps!
And that is nothing compared to the seaweed in Mexico it's piles of it...

[Bnewb]

There's nothing like that happening in Negril.
After a storm we will get seaweed build up (not algae) on the beach and this helps with beach nourishment...but it will stink if left lying in the sun as it decays. It generally gets cleaned up quickly in Negril.

[Patricia]

Currently in Akumal, MX


Yesterday's Chicago Tribune Travel section
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifest...810-story.html

[Jamerican71]

I was in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic in July and the seaweed was awful. The seaweed blanketed the entire swim area and shoreline. The workers tried hard and cleaned daily but couldn't keep up with the amount of seaweed coming ashore.

[captaind & Linston]

One thing of note.

All the affected beaches face East into the prevailing current and more importantly the NW Trade winds.

Long bay (Negril) faces west and being down current and leeward of the Trades tend to not be affected.

The only real seaweed build up is not usually Sargasso.

Cap

[TizzyATX]

Nope but we get a lot of that here on the Texas coast

[smith744]

Yep..!!..


over the years,
i have seen it in Negril
on a few occasions

1...after a couple of hurricanes

2...after strong tropical storms, that didn't *reach* hurricane-status

3...after a couple of *weird* '''rough-sea''' situations
my Lucea-landlord,
who for many years,
worked at Sandles & Beaches & other-places
in the resort water-sport departments
always dreaded when the seaweed would pile up
....a LOT of clean-up work:::: such as bury-ing the stuff in big hand-dug holes in the sand.

I haven't seen it pile up to ten (10),
but on a couple of occasions
i have seen it up to 3-4 feet in places along the beach

as mentioned,
the stench is terrible,
especially after a big-storm/hurricane when the fish get washed up onto the beach, and start to funk-up the place, as they marinate in the hot Jamaican sunshine.

for me,
a long-lasting nightmare::::>>> ONCE upon a time,
a bunch of plastic, and non-biodegrade-able stuff that washed up
around the Margaritaville area
it was late-August/early-September,
all this stuff came out of the sea
which looked like man-made, tossed-in-the-sea stuff from SpringBreak :::::: which was MONTHs before the incident.

p.s... IF you're ever in Negril,
and you see/find this stuff piled-up on the beach
do NOT mess-around in that stuff
'cause there ain't no-tellin' what's in it.
[[[[ this was a warning/suggestion/recommendation/declaration that i was given by several of the Negril-ians, along the beach ]]]

[NoWorries4 me]

This is what it looked like in Rivera Maya earlier this year. Gross! That stuff was a couple feet deep every day and constantly floating in the water. We didn't get in the water once. I'm soooo done with Mexico!

[captaind & Linston]

I say again------

The seaweed that washes to shore after a storm on Long Bay is NOT what the article is referring to...


Cap