Over the last few days, several TikTokers, YouTubers and Facebook users have shared on their social media platforms shocking videos of alarming quantities of sargassum on Playa del Carmen beaches and waters.
“You can’t swim. Boats are stuck. Rocks are buried. There is no human force that can handle this sargassum,” said @chachorivera in a viral YouTube video last week.
A short version of that video has over 1.6 million views on his TikTok account.
The YouTuber explains that the biggest arrival of seaweed is concentrated in the center of Playa del Carmen and that other beaches in the municipality are almost clean, like Playa Mamita.
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