January 9th, 2008
New Red Tide Info Hotline
A new Red Tide beach conditions hotline (and accompaning web sites), have been created. I’m not sure I should be even writing about them as there are several already.
Mote Marine Labs has a “Beach Conditions Reports for Southwest Florida” page that uses google Maps technology. Some web developer put a lot of work into this one and it shows. It bases the info on the red tide report within on “old school technology” Mote used to use this old school technology for their old version of this page which was just a text based report like ours. That was fine before. It gathered all kinds of data because it was open to the public (via e-mail) and then Mote started getting all antagonostic and political and red tide events started disappearing from the report and were being reported as less intense as they were etc. etc. Nowadays, sadly, Mote still can’t be trusted for accurate information about red tide.
Of course you can also dial their phone hotline for a recording the number is: 941-BEACHES (1-941-232-2437).
April 8th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
how can you prevent red tide from happen to you? Is there a cure to red tide yet? Im doing a project on red tide and thoes are the things im not sure on
April 18th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Excellent question!
One way to prevent red tide and other Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB’S)is to use things like retention ponds and natural vegative filters to stop a lot of the nutrients from fertilizers and other pollution before it gets to the saltwater.