Forget sea monsters and tidal waves. Beachgoers and fishermen alike are having their summers ruined by something far less cinematic: record amounts of foul-smelling 'sargassum' seaweed that have inundated huge swaths of Atlantic Ocean shoreline.The amount of algae found in the tropical, central west and east Atlantic - as well as the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of - was up to 24.2 million tons in June. That's an increase from 18.8 million tons a month prior and a record high.'If you put all this biomass side by side, the entire area is equivalent to six times of Tampa Bay,' Chuanmin Hu, a researcher from the University of South who studied the phenomenon, told DailyMail.com.
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