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People keep sharing. It’s normal. Impressions of the Black Sea – service, prices, ecological.
Well, yes, it’s normal, although a little subjective, every opinion has weight in our choice and that’s the reason we give voice to the reality, through your view.
Everyone decides what and how to choose or condemn. Informed consent, they say, is the right choice.
An excerpt from the web reads:
Don’t you go to the sea? I take this quote as the title of today’s story. It started with incredibly clear and clean sea on a beach in Kiten Black Sea town, which will remain unnamed. I’ll just say that the city is known for its excellent sewage treatment plant that has been operating for about a decade.
The water was so transparent and clean, smooth as a lake surface, and pleasant to swim in that we didn’t want to leave until the sun baked at noon.
It was then that Emeshe saw the spot.
There between the last buoy and the shore. Dense, brownish-green in appearance, surrounded by suspicious white foam. I got closer and took this photo from about 20 meters away. At the time it was rocking and drifting slightly north parallel to the beach.
There was more foam moving behind it, which I also photographed. In it, people calmly strolled and even let their children play.
I remembered a casual conversation a year ago in which my GP shared that the incidence of gastrointestinal disease was skyrocketing.
I asked one of the lifeguards passing by if this foam was from the jets. She laughed, she wasn’t. However, when I pointed out the stain to him, he shrugged and said he didn’t know what it was.
I, on the other hand, told him that it should be checked and that a report should be sent to the RZI for this purpose.
A few minutes later, as we were collecting our sunbeds and umbrellas, I was approached by a short man with a low-shaven head. He introduced himself as the manager of the beach and asked what I was concerned about. I showed him the stain and the foam. He didn’t seem to see them at first. Then he tried to convince me that these were perfectly normal things:
– Don’t you go to the sea? – he asked me rhetorically and thus produced the title of my today’s story.
I have been walking for about 50 years, first on ours and more recently on neighboring coasts. And that’s exactly why I know that such brown spots do not belong where people bathe. It is in order to see what it is because it can be dangerous.
– Well, this is your personal opinion – the manager ended the conversation and turned his back on me. Before that he also mentioned that checks were carried out constantly and there was no problem.
This sounded to me like an invitation to give my signal, and I hardly resist such. So at 12:15 noon I called 112 and, despite the poor connection, reported the stain and the foam. I also gave the exact name of the beach, which I will save here.
RIOSV called me about 15 minutes later, but it took me that long to return their call as I was shopping. A kind woman informed me that my signal had been received and someone from the Basin Directorate in Varna would call me.
He looked for me at 14.15 actually, but I noticed the missed call only at 15.00. 10 minutes later, at his insistence, I was back on the beach to check my signal together. I took my ten-year-old son with me for company.
The walk along the seashore was pleasant, the water looking ever so enticingly clear and smooth. The stain was gone, and so was the foam. Children and adults were still happily splashing around the sea.
After making sure that there was no trace of the stain, the friendly inspector dropped us off near the original spot from which I had photographed it.
Before that, however, he arranged for the owner of the beach bar to drive us back to our car. The man looked rather sullen. Now he was being checked because of my tip.
At 18.00, the inspector brought me a ready protocol certifying that the inspection did not come across any contamination. I signed with pleasure. The important thing is that the sea is clean, right? The benefit is that at least the tariqats who are tempted to throw sticky thick stains into the sea early in the morning know that there is someone to sound the alarm and the inspection comes in time, even on a day off. The fine, in case they are caught, is BGN 10,000.
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