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Sargassum Orient Beach
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04/12/2021 05:18 AM
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Massive amounts of Sargassum for the last week or so, especially in the Club O area. Frontloader does its best to remove it, but there is just way too much of the stuff. Thankfully, there was a break yesterday in the middle of the beach. Wondering what the other beaches on the west side look like right now. This is nasty.
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Re: Sargassum Orient Beach
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04/12/2021 08:29 AM
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I remember when Bruno was still at LaPlaya, he demanded they get a machine to clear the seaweed, so that's why it has been clear there. Sorry it has been so bad there recently. Gomer, who is staying at Beachside Villas, has reported that Simpson Bay has has almost no seaweed the past week or so.
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Re: Sargassum Orient Beach
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04/12/2021 08:31 AM
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There are pictures of absolutely massive mats of sargassum across some of the beaches of Martinique. I haven't been around to Orient in quite a while.
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Re: Sargassum Orient Beach
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04/13/2021 03:54 AM
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As I said in original post, Cedric or whomever has contracted a large earthmover that attempts to remove the Sargassum every morning but with the large volume, it is impossible. Going to the western beaches today.
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Re: Sargassum Orient Beach
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04/13/2021 12:56 PM
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Did a little research on this last night, and a machine called the "Sargasso Skimmer" was invented/created about three years ago down in Belize. I've seen sea grasses on the Riviera Maya in the past, but nothing like I've seen on St. Martin at certain times over the past five years. This machine skims the water and sucks up the floating sea grass patches, and a conveyer like tube unit draws it in for disposal. Check out this website for further details: www.desmi.com. or Google search 'Sargasso Skimmer'. I have no idea how much something like this would cost, but as we all know the beaches of St. Martin and the Caribbean for that matter are cherished resources that need to be protected. Maybe at some point down the road the French and/or Dutch governments will pursue such machinery for their eastern facing beaches?
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Re: Sargassum Orient Beach
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I'm too lazy to look for it at the moment, but there is such a machine, or similar, already on Dutch St. Maarten, as there was a picture of it in the Daily Herald.
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