Residents of Anapa urged officials to find out the reason for the accumulation of seaweed on the shore.

One of the residents of Dzhemete filmed a wide strip of seaweed on the shore and noted that he had never seen anything like it before. Other residents of Anapa, commenting on this video in Telegram, urged officials to conduct analyses of the sea water and find the reason for the accumulation of the seaweed. They believed that a single cleanup of the shore would not prevent new accumulations of seaweed.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", on November 1, blogger Andrey Makovozov reported on the discharge of large chunks of fuel oil on the "Feya-2" beach in Dzhemete after the storm.

One of the residents of Dzhemete filmed a wide strip of the shore covered with almost a solid layer of brown seaweed. The dense fibrous mass stretches along the sea, covering the sand over a significant part of the shown section of the beach. At the water's edge, the seaweed lies in thick layers with torn, sometimes overhanging edges. Close-ups show intertwined plant fibers, with small waves approaching directly to the accumulations of seaweed.

According to the author of the video, he has lived in Dzhemete for many years, but has never seen anything like this before. The thickness of the layer of seaweed, by his estimate, is about a meter in some places. The resident urged to remove the accumulations from the shore while the sea is calm. "While it's calm, all this needs to be removed. It just needs to be taken away by tractors. No one is listening to us. It will be terrible later," he said in the video, which was published on November 2 in the Telegram channel of Anapa blogger Yuri Ozarovsky.

As of 08:40 Moscow time on November 3, this video in the Telegram channel "Yuri Ozarovsky Anapa Vityazevo Dzhemete", which has about 46.2 thousand subscribers, had gained 1,630 views and 18 comments.

Some local residents linked the accumulations of seaweed to pollution in the sea and pointed out that cleaning the shore would not eliminate the cause of the problem. "What did you expect? The sea got polluted, and that's why there's such growth. Since early April, the water has been blooming. It will take a long time to self-clean. The clay also did its part, as local ecologist Vyacheslav Yermolaev said, but the administration ignored him. Now they should think about how to collect all this and at whose expense," wrote AnapaKiteTeam.

"At whose expense – they will find that out, taxes will be raised or a resort fee will be introduced. But that will just be money down the drain; with the new season, the seaweed will appear again. The question is, when will they deal with the cause, not the consequence?" noted Peter Denisov.

In response to an ironic suggestion from another participant to install lanterns, Galina Chernova wrote: "Lanterns won't eliminate hydrogen sulfide here; at most, they will beautifully illuminate the consequences. We need water analyses and to find the source of the discharges, not a light show."

Other comments concerned how unusual the situation is and whether a storm could clean the shore. "This is normal! The storm will take it away," wrote Alexander Shtab "Dolphins".

AnapaKiteTeam disagreed, citing personal observations: "Where will it take it? I was in the water during the last storm and rode my kite along the shore of Anapa Bay; the sludge is everywhere where there is even a slight depression."

"I've never seen anything like this," noted Kristina.

A separate discussion arose about the consequences for marine inhabitants and the need for water studies. "Seaweed grows due to increased discharges into the sea; where such seaweed will rot, there will be no living marine inhabitants," suggested Peter Denisov.

When his assessment was disagreed with, he continued: "It's not an exaggeration; where seaweed rots, oxygen is not released, only hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, carbon dioxide, and methane. What marine inhabitants can live in such an environment?"

Galina Chernova in another comment pointed out the need for measurements: "Here you described an anoxic bottom layer, not the entire water area. Fish and crustaceans will leave it or die, anaerobic bacteria will remain. Above, the water can retain oxygen, especially when mixed. Without measurements of depth and time, the conclusion that 'there will be no living inhabitants' is still too broad."

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that vacationers and local residents have repeatedly complained about accumulations of seaweed on Anapa beaches. For example, on October 8 of this year, it was reported about accumulations of seaweed that remained after the end of the resort season. An unpleasant smell interfered with walks along the sea, and the issue of cleanup remained unresolved.

On September 13, social media users demanded to arrange cleanup of the Central beach of Anapa, discussing a video in which two women were making their way through a long strip of seaweed to clean water. Other participants in the discussion pointed out that clean places for swimming could be found on neighboring sections of the shore.

On August 17, Anapa bloggers reported on seaweed at the entrance to the sea. Andrey Makovozov talked about a large amount of green suspension on the "Dynamo" beach, while Yuri Ozarovsky reported on accumulations of seaweed to the left of the Central beach in Vityazevo.