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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: candj]
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07/26/2022 06:35 AM
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They can build a rocket to go out into space, but they can't find out what makes this happens and how to stop it before it make it to shore???? It's got to be killing businesses all over!!!!
Sand Gravity, got to love it!
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: Colour1]
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07/26/2022 08:48 AM
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They can build a rocket to go out into space, but they can't find out what makes this happens and how to stop it before it make it to shore???? It's got to be killing businesses all over!!!! It's NATURE! Not an easy thing to control.
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: ruralcarrier]
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07/26/2022 09:07 AM
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Perhaps I am wrong, but is there anything that can be done, until it actually comes ashore? Obviously, it can be raked, once ashore, but is there any 'boom' or anything that is being used out in the water?? I haven't heard of it, if there is.
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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07/26/2022 09:15 AM
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I believe there was some talk about some type of boom, but that would like just force the problem elsewhere. Trying to control mother nature is a difficult thing.
J.D.
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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07/27/2022 05:43 AM
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I was thinking of a HUGE tanker with a boom vacuum, but then it wouldn't know the difference between the sargassum and seas life. So that shoots that down.
Sand Gravity, got to love it!
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: BillandElaine]
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07/28/2022 08:57 AM
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I can't tell from that story whether they are collecting it just on shore, or in the water? Glad they are doing something though.
Carol Hill
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
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07/28/2022 10:45 AM
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I can't tell from that story whether they are collecting it just on shore, or in the water? Glad they are doing something though. It appears in the water too. "collection of sargassum stranded or floating in the Bay of Cul-De-Sac"
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: Carol_Hill]
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07/28/2022 04:48 PM
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I can't tell from that story whether they are collecting it just on shore, or in the water? They are colleting it om shore and in the water, loading into trucks and hauling it away. I watched them do it about an hour ago.
--ChiTownHarry
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
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07/30/2022 08:53 AM
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Club O Beach by Cedrick ooSnrpstde01029h2m2l 1 5f2a09ch561095t51f87mhlt02caui 1 1428 h g84 · Urgent! Due to the sargassum situation we unfortunately probably be forced to close the beach tomorrow. We will do our outmost to clean between Saturday and Sunday. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Elaine ********************************* God Bless the broken road....
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: BillandElaine]
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07/30/2022 09:07 AM
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Hi. I don't understand the stuff at the top, but that is bad news, for sure.. I sure hope things improve.
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: jazzgal]
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07/30/2022 04:46 PM
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Linda--that's disgusting. I do not ever recall seeing that kind of thing on Orient.
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Re: Pinel Island closed due to Sargassum
[Re: candj]
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08/01/2022 04:26 PM
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Good Grief. Stunning pictures. The 2017 storms, COVID, and Sargassum have been three huge body blows to the Caribbean.
My last 2 trips were in 2019 to Caye Caulker Belize and to Barbados. Sat out the 2 big COVID years with testing/masking uncertainties.
Going again this December; I will start low key with Cozumel. I miss Anguilla and the BVIs.....
Happy travels to all !
Last edited by PAHI; 08/01/2022 04:36 PM.
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