These 'mucus blobs' are showing up more often in the eastern Mediterranean sea. Usually along a coast line and in warmer water. Now they even occur during the winter and they are getting bigger, sometimes stretching for over 100 kms.
Just why these blobs form is not really known but it is known that they contain viruses and E coli and can contaminate the beach sand when they dry out. Even large fish can be smothered by the blobs and large blogs can sink thereby smothering the sea floor animals.
Recent studies have shown that the blobs are spreading and have also been found near Australia. Beware of the blob and this time it's real!
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