Originally published in the News-Press by Chad Gillis on August 27, 2025
The gulf measured 88 degrees Aug. 26, according to several sources.
Vibrio is among one of the untold number of microbes found in oceanic environments.
“If there’s a lot of organic material being input in the marine environment, like from runoff or water being stirred up,” Douglass said. “That can create a lot of food for the microbes and big rainfall event s or hurricanes plus warm water, all those things really get the stew cooking.”
But would Douglass get into the water now?
He waded into the water waste deep Aug. 26 while taping a video segment for a local television station.
Douglass should be a good measuring mark as he is both a professor and marine expert as well as someone who recreates on local waters.
He’s also had a nasty water-borne infection that required mulitple treatments with mulitiple antibiotics.
“You don’t want to get any open wound or anything wet, ever, but especially not when you’ve got warm, stagnant water and lots of discharge from the land,” he said.
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