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Mexico deploys navy to battle record sargassum bloom choking Caribbean beaches

Mexican Navy conducts sargassum removal operations at scale

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Commander Álvaro Villanueva and crew aboard the Natans, a retrofitted former garbage vessel, remove over 400 tons of sargassum in a single operation, using conveyor belts and bulldozers to haul and pack seaweed from the water.

Mexican Navy conducts sargassum removal operations at scale
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“It all joins up and keeps growing. We call them agglomerations when a cluster forms that's the size of a soccer field.”

Commander Álvaro Villanueva

Commander Álvaro Villanueva Mexican Navy commander leading sargassum operationsChuanmin Hu Director, Optical Oceanography Lab, University of South FloridaSantia Bradshaw Barbados Minister of Environment, National Beautification, and FisheriesMexican Navy Government agency conducting sargassum removal operations

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