Blackwater: SeaWiFS True Color

  • Released Thursday, March 21, 2002

Scientists are baffled by a mysterious 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off southern Florida, an area normally rife with fish but described by fishermen now as fouled by murky waters and barren of marine life.

Researchers speculate the black water, as local fishermen have dubbed it, may be a result of an algae bloom, not unlike red tide outbreaks that afflict the Suncoast region.

Video slate image reads "Mysterious Blackwater Event.  Scientists are baffled by a mysterious 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off southern Florida, an area normally rife with fish but described by fishermen now as fouled by murky waters and barren of marine life.  Data Dates: 2002/01/09, 2002/01/16, 2002/02/04, 2002/03/18".

Video slate image reads "Mysterious Blackwater Event. Scientists are baffled by a mysterious 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off southern Florida, an area normally rife with fish but described by fishermen now as fouled by murky waters and barren of marine life. Data Dates: 2002/01/09, 2002/01/16, 2002/02/04, 2002/03/18".



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This page was originally published on Thursday, March 21, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.


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  • [SeaStar: SeaWiFS]

    ID: 100
    Collected with SeaWiFS 2002/01/09, 2002/01/16, 2002/02/04, 2002/03/18

    NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye

    Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become one DigitalGlobe.).

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