Algae blooms at Olympic sailing venue
July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Sailing by Bill Blevins
Quindao, China Algae Bloom at sailing site, originally uploaded to Flickr by beijingente.
China’s latest Olympics nightmare is a vast algae bloom that covers one third of the sea where the world’s best sailors are supposed to be competing in just over a month. Athletes call it “the blob”, “the carpet”, “the fairway”, and “the serious problem”.