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video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMNLDHpbN-M
Link and video: http://www.livescience.com/37987-algae-bloom-swamps-chinese-beaches.html

Carpets of bright green algae have overwhelmed beaches in eastern China's Shandong province due to this summer's huge Yellow Sea bloom.

Video footage from the resort city of Qingdao showed bathers braving the algae infiltration, swimming among stringy mats and carrying out handfuls of the material, known as "sea lettuce" in China, according to The New York Times.

This type of green algae, enteromorpha prolifera, is not toxic to people, but it can suck up huge amounts of oxygen, choking marine life. And when it rots, it can smell quite foul.
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Warm sea temperatures and pollution are thought to fuel the algae growth, as the organisms can feed on nutrients like phosphates and nitrates in fertilizer runoff and sewage.

 

[Majine]

Why are they still swimming in it!?

 

[zulfate]

Why are they still swimming in it!?

china dont care brah!

 

[4th Chamber]

Just throw some catfish in there.

 

[R3TRODYCE]

Looks like a nice grassy field.

 

[Firest0rm]

Why are they still swimming in it!?

It's really good for you.

 

[GregLombardi]

Why are they still swimming in it!?

This. My exact thought lol.

 

[FLAguy954]

Goddamn, reminds me of the of this thread talking about Chinese environmental waste: Fucking disgusting, plus they swim in the shit!

 

[Count Dookkake]

So to what food product will that be added?

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Soylent Green is algae!

 

[Wthermans]

This happens almost every year IIRC. I know they had to do a mass cleanup for the Olympic Regatta in 2008.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/asia/01algae.html

 

[Savitar]

Field of Dreams.......In your Ocean.

The award winning sequel.

 

[CharlieDigital]

Harvest it and make biofuel.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Goddamn, reminds me of the of this thread talking about Chinese environmental waste: Fucking disgusting, plus they swim in the shit!

oh damn

 

[DY_nasty]

oh damn

http://i.imgur.com/RtHn8Nz.png[IMG][/QUOTE]

i fucking lost it lmao

the water wings

god

 

[2Dcube]

If its fueled by pollution does that mean its also a good thing? Pollution turning into algae?

 

[xbhaskarx]

The Chinese will start eating the algae, and then in fifteen years all algae species worldwide will be on the brink of extinction.

 

[speculawyer]

WTF China. Get some fucking regulations in order. I can only assume this is from massive amounts of fertilizer run-off at best and possibly the dumping of various waste chemicals that algae love.

 

[kirblar]

The Chinese will start eating the algae, and then in fifteen years all algae species worldwide will be on the brink of extinction.

Nah, they'll just spread it to other countries where it runs over the existing ecosystem.

 

[wenis]

quick, someone come up with a marketing gimmick that this will purify and soften your skin after swimming in it.

charge $150 for every half hour swim and sell that shit hard.

 

[Opiate]

The Chinese will start eating the algae, and then in fifteen years all algae species worldwide will be on the brink of extinction.

We need to act now to save the algae.

 

[paile]

I remember seeing the yellow sea when I was in China. I walked to the shoreline and along a pier. Fog everywhere. The locals were stunned to see a westerner.

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

The Chinese will start eating the algae, and then in fifteen years all algae species worldwide will be on the brink of extinction.

Haha this makes sense. I wonder how it tastes