Bermuda's railway line opened in 1931 and was the most expensive ever built. It was closed in 1948 and sold to Guyana, together with its engine, Old Rattle and Shake. The old line is now a nature trail.
An alert after the sighting of sargasso by boats and via satellite became effective in the town of Solidarity, where much of the Riviera Maya is, so staff of the Federal Maritime Terrestrial Zone (Zofemat), is preparing to receive these tons of seaweed soon to the coasts.
According to estimates it is expected that the marine currents will move about 1,900 square meters of sargasso and that the greatest impacts will be in Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Puerto Morelos, as well as Cancun, although they may change their course to change the direction of the winds....
Along with personnel from the Federal Maritime Terrestrial Zone (Zofemat), several volunteers and workers who work systematically to remove seaweed from the sandbanks are preparing to face the cleaning of the sargasso.
The municipality of Solidaridad and the coastal lodging centers respond to the emergency manually and mechanically with tractors, trenches, shovels, dump trucks and mini electric excavators from the ground to this situation of contamination of the beaches, which is a result according to global warming experts.
Manuel Gallardo and Esteban Amaro, of the Sargazo Cancún Monitoring Network, explained that the arrival of this seaweed on the beaches is a serious problem that affects all those who are linked by their work to tourism and we have to do something about it.
They estimated that it is necessary to attack it at high sea and not let it reach the beach because there will generate an ecological disaster.
Bermuda's railway line opened in 1931 and was the most expensive ever built. It was closed in 1948 and sold to Guyana, together with its engine, Old Rattle and Shake. The old line is now a nature trail.
