Algae that's FIFTY MILES long

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The deep green sea: Algae that's FIFTY MILES long is lurking in the English Channel

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1368487/Pictured-The-blooming-algae-thats-FIFTY-MILES-long-lurking-English-Channel.html

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I wondering what's really causing this? It's far to early in the year for heat to have built up in the water to have produced this.

 

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Fresh on the heels of the algae a basking shark turns up in the same waters 2 months earlier than normal. If the seawater has warmed up considerably, which these records seem to indicate, I wonder what's causing it? Volcanic activity on the sea bed somewhere further out in the Atlantic Ocean, maybe?

Giant shark seen off coast of Cornwall

A giant summer visitor – a basking shark – has arrived off the coast of Cornwall two months early. The arrival of the world’s second- biggest fish was seen by scuba divers off Roskilly Beach at Newlyn. Normally basking sharks, which can grow more than 30ft long, appear in May.

_http://www.independent.co.uk/i/matrix/the-news-matrix-wednesday-23-march-2011-2250030.html