"4Hypoxia is when we have lower than normal, 5dissolved 6oxygen in the water are very common in the summer."

Katie Saint Clair is the7 sea life facility manager at Texas A&M university at Galveston.

Saint Clair says the fish simply can't breathe.

"As we get these warmer gulf water temperatures, the water itself has less 8capacity to hold dissolved oxygen, which of course is really important and 9essential for the fish and other animals to breathe."

While Saint Clair says this can 10affect 11schools of fish more, other fish can also 12succumb to the event as seen by social media posts like these and plenty of curious 13passersby who are breathing this all in.