The Mexican Navy recently announced that it collected 1.5 tons of pesky sargassum seaweed off the Mexican Caribbean coast. This makes beach access and swimming in the warm, blue sea along Mexico’s Riviera Maya much more pleasant.
The project began in the Mahahual region, and it will extend to all the 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 provides habitat for many marine organisms, sargassum attracts flies, mosquitos, and other insects. It also has a very unpleasant odor when the seaweed releases toxic gasses as it decomposes!
The brown seaweed
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