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    Default Sargasso Sea.

    I've just been reading about a huge swathe of seaweed heading for the US, I always thought it was a regular thing on the approaches to the West Indies. I heard old stories of sailing ships getting stuck in this seaweed. Whenever we go to the Caribbean on a cruise, I point it out to my Mrs, so she's known about it for a few years. I'm sure there was a sea area of that name, but in the news it's a bit different.

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    Hi Johnny. I think all I knew about the Sargasso Sea, a large area of sea weed and the European eel went there to breed. Looked it up on the internet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea

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    It always puzzled me calling a large area of he Atlantic the Saragossa Sea, an area covered in some sort of weed, it was still the Atlantic. Anyone know how it was so named?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Des Taff Jenkins View Post
    It always puzzled me calling a large area of he Atlantic the Saragossa Sea, an area covered in some sort of weed, it was still the Atlantic. Anyone know how it was so named?
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    Here we go Des

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    Hi Vernon.
    Thanks mate , it looks like lately the weed helps in the depletion of oxygen, maybe also helps with the increase in bad storms now hitting the area.
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    Des, lava bread made in Wales, is that not from some form of sea weed??
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    John
    Not sure, my Auntie used to bring some for my mother when she was on her rounds selling her cockles, I should put that a bit better! She used to carry a huge basket of Cockles on her head, one strong woman.
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