Beaches outside of Kuwait?

Fesal Khaled wrote:

Hi, my advise to you is to go to swimming pools only because most beaches in Kuwait are polluted even the private beaches at hotels and resorts, many people are suffering from diseases including cancer because of swimming at the beaches. many  people eat only imported fish.
 
news.kuwaittimes.net/environmental-disasters-kuwaiti-beaches-hospital-area/
destination-scuba.com/sewage-pollution-kuwait.html

Wow… that’s a pretty subjective/provocative (and quite unsubstantiated) statement … who conducted the study and where can I find the white paper on how swimming at the beach caused cancer in specific individuals?   lol

As an Environmental Professional working in the region, I would be much more worried about air quality (especially long term exposure to silica) then that of whether there are measureable amounts of hydrocarbons heavier then a PPB in an ocean of Sodium Chloride Solution … even in the small pockets of product accumulation external exposers to levels in this range worry me little. 

Generalizing about the dangers of eating seafood out of the region is another simple scare tactic designed to create fear in the uneducated.  Again my worries would be very specific … termed more towards issues surrounding Methylmercury and the biomagnification process of specific species of ‘fish’ (local Tuna, Shark, and other large predators)

Use your common sense, avoid areas with heavy marine motor traffic, don’t swim in areas with a collection of shimmering scum, …and have fun!  lol

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The articles referred to, one of an incident 6 years ago, and the other by a publication that seldom shows any form of credible supporting documentation beyond that of he said she said, do little to convince me of a real “substantiated” threat. 

Do understand … the ocean in general is a living/breathing organism in and to itself (a metaphor) … and is quite capable of cleaning and purging impurities from its waters at a much faster rate then most would think based on its own size and composition.  The earth itself dumps more impurities into its oceans then we ever have or will through subsurface volcanic activities (including that of Methylmercury) … (as such, what makes imported seafood any better?) and that’s done nothing to kill off the worlds coral reefs nor keeping me from my scuba.  lol