notePublished by Scott Kingery on Mar 16, 2023, 9:37 AM A 5,000-mile wide blob of seaweed is headed for Florida, threatening tourism | CNN https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/seaweed-sargassum-florida-caribbean-scn/index.html'This year’s sargassum mass could be the largest on record — spanning more than 5,000 miles from the coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.'