Ocean color satellites show extensive surface slicks in ...

MERIS images also show examples of similar lines off Florida and the east coast of the USA, closer to the area known as the Sargasso Sea. One image on 27 August 2005 shows what appears to be lines of sargassum in Gulf Stream water at 42 N, 60 W, significantly north of the accepted northern limit of the Sargasso Sea (35 N). ................
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