“The water looks fine, better than it has in two weeks,” said DolphinClubSF member Ken Miller, a 65-year-old native San Franciscan who was heading down to the beach on Thursday for a lunchtime dip.
Although the algal bloom in San Francisco Bay is now the largest, longest lasting and most deadly for fish on record — longtime swimmers at The City’s Dolphin Club maintain that an invigorating plunge outweighs possible toxic effects from the tainted water.
Scientists with San Francisco Baykeeper, an environmental nonprofit, have reported a massive die-off of fish around the bay, numbering 10,000 in Lake Merritt alone, and warning swimmers to avoid long contact with the water because of the contamination of the bloom. The species of algae, Heterosigma akashiwo, is not known to be acutely toxic to humans but can cause skin irritation and respiratory problems.
Indeed, there were no warning signs to stay out of the water on either the Dolphin Club beach or the Aquatic Park beach next door, perhaps because they often go ignored.
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