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ocean currents, a gyre that keeps it in place as it deco decomposes. this one has broken off and has doubled in size in a month. and scientists think maybe it has to do with warmer waters due to climate change, nutrient pollution, phosphorus, nitrogen. we've seen that sort of trigger the red tide and the toxic algae blooms around florida as well. it's hitting the yucatan peninsula now, the beaches there. it probably wouldn't hit florida until july or so. >> and what can be done to prevent this from hitting the beaches? >> i was talking to some experts actually up in maine who work with seaweed as a carbon capture tool and they say there are plenty of guys with, you know, trawler rigs, two boats pulling a net, that could get in front of it, sort of corral it, and then they would chop it up and sink it in deep ocean, which actually would be a net benefit for the planet because it captures carbon and sends it, locks it away deep on the ocean bed there as well. but right now there's no incentive to do that. as you get closer, when you think about six-foot drifts of rotting, you know, seaweed,