Seems QingDao is just one venue dealing with the wrath of nature.
Judgement Day?

Earthquakes, pollution, floods and now locusts! When shall we expect the return of SARS (plague!)?

This story just keeps getting better and better.
Just read that the Olympic waters are now closed for an unknown period
and teams are not allowed to go out on the water for training etc. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Sssuuuurrrreee it's not polluted.

International Herald article July 15

This article says it's "basically" cleaned up.

Guess the competitors and coaches are about the only ones who know the truth out there....

I read a blurb the other day, on SA I think, that said the sailors were told to stay off the water. More pollution issues???

Copied from thread on the SA forum:

This is from the German news agency:

The organizers of the olympic sailing reagtta in Qingdao (BOCOG) have declared the olympic courses as prohibited zone by 8 tomorrow morning (Tuesday). The announcement, sent to all national bodies, included no reasons and no limit. This was confirmed by the sports director of the german Federationm Hans Sendes. Specualtions in QIngdao are that the organizers might choose harder weapons in their fight against the blossom of the algues.

Chemicals! Kill it all.

substitute dead algae for dead fishies! Outstanding....

Nuke it from space. It's the only way to be sure.

Then the algae mutates into flesh eating creatures that stomp buildings.

I think I saw the movie once on Saturday "Creature Feature".

Ho-Re-Cow !

on topic people. C'mon.

What does the closure of the venue mean? They going to start dumping chlorine into the water?

I would think that they are going to do something like that yes. Ugly!

Copper Sulphate will do the trick.

Spread a slick of kerosene and light the whole thing on fire?

Chemicals are only a solution to the algae - what do you do after the fish kill? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

From the movies "Aliens", right. Said by private Hicks after the idea was coined first by Ripley.

Wouter

All cleaned up!!!!!

China: Qingdao is algae-free
By By the Associated Press
Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:45 AM ET
SHANGHAI, China(AP) - The site of the Olympic sailing competition is clear of the bright-green algae that until recently had covered the sea off the city of Qingdao, a Chinese official said Tuesday.
The Chinese government had set a goal of clearing the sailing site by Tuesday.
"Now it's totally different from several days ago. It's hard to find the green algae, especially in the Olympics sailing site,'' Wang Haitao, vice president of the sailing committee for China's games organizing committee, told the Associated Press by telephone.
The sea-blanketing algae bloom, which officials blamed on natural causes, had disrupted practice for the more than 30 Olympic sailing teams already on site.
To save the site for next month's Olympics, the Chinese government in past weeks called on thousands of soldiers, volunteers and fishing boats to help remove the algae.
While the site of the Olympic competition is clear, the cleanup continues outside the barrier of fishnets and canvas that's being used to keep the algae out of the competition area.
"Yesterday, we sent out 1,700 fishing boats to search for algae over the whole sea area in Qingdao, but they only got 10,000 tons,'' Wang said. "Compared with days before, that's big progress.''
Thirty-seven national teams are now training at the Olympic site, he said.
Some of the athletes are reporting success as well.
"We are happy to report that the algae outbreak seems to have been successfully tackled by the hundreds of dedicated ships, fishing boats and thousands of workers,'' American sailor Carrie Howesaid on her team's Web site Monday. "Efforts have even extended to a seemingly endless floating boom to protect the waters of Fusan Bay.''

Wow, does that sound like a doctored up report or what!?

Anybody want to buy 22 million pounds of algae?

That's one day's catch? That's a s**tload of seaweed!

Might be the answer to the biofuel question in the "petroleum" thread <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />