Red Tide Invades Cocoa Beach, Florida

The affects of Red Tide are felt and seen in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Video provides footage of fish-kill and basic background of the microscopic organism Karenia brevis responsible for Red Tide.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Red
• Tide
• Fish
• Kill
• Marine
• Biology
• Ocean
• Life
• Pollution
• Karenia
• brevis
• Cocoa
• Beach
• Algal
• blooms
• Dr.
• Diana
• Wehrell

[ThisisAwesomeyeahman]

Hello Diana, do you or does anyone know if it would be effective to rake(maybe with some type of machine) the red tide weed up with the dead fish and such? Would someone get in trouble for doing that? Thanks in advance to anyone who knows this!

[drdianascience]

Thisisawesomeyeahman-

In the Cocoa Beach area when we had Red Tide for an extended length of time eventually the city came out with a shovel type tractor.. One guy drove the tractor with the shovel, and about 5 or six people raked up the seaweed, fish etc... into piles.

You do need to be careful about any digging, etc.. done on coastal areas.

[drdianascience]

Thanks SailBoatBum for sending the video. Nice job. Diana

[sponsler]

Good Job DrDianaScience,

The tide was awful up in Cape Canaveral also.

Thanks for posting.

[drdianascience]

Sponsler:

Thanks for the feedback and watching the video. Dr. D.

[watermelonorange]

watching this video, it feels like im blind

[TheODA2005]

so... can shy say that 3 times fast??!?!?

[bitnola]

Florida state biologists have been "studying" red tide for decades. At least they've applied for lots of funds, but they claim to know very little about its causes.

Here's a clue: There were no red tide blooms on the east coast of Fla. EVER, until a few years ago. There have only been a few since. Correlate them to heavier than normal outflows from the St. Johns, which drains heavily poisoned and fertilized counties.

Fla's nearshore waters have had too many insults to their cleanliness.

[matt94lol]

it doesn't even look red

[dannyodoul]

Red Tide is another evil Communist handiwork.

[SailBoatBum]

Very Informative. On the West Coast we did not have any red tide in 2007. None here in Bradenton Beach, Manatee County. I hear now they have guessed that alot of it is caused by run-off from the Mississippi River. Whats the reasons on the East Coast? All runoff including all local fertilizers and pesticide need to be looked at.

[TheFatAussieBarstard]

I,m enjoying these vids...