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Half a million oysters to be introduced to Humber estuary in restoration plan
European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal waters.
Half a million native European flat oysters will be introduced to the estuary after being carefully nurtured by Wilder Humber, a partnership between Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and the green energy company Ørsted.
Yorkshire Wildlife Oyster Restoration project, based on the Spurn Point, Humberside.
The project aims to restore the number of native oysters on the seabed of the North sea and Humber estuary.
Oyster Larvae are bred and hatched in a bio controlled location by the The Oyster Restoration Co in remote Scotland. The first batch of 400,000 oysters were transported to Yorkahire Wildlife site on the 4th September 2024 and placed to grow in controlled tanks.
Spurn Point.
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Half a million oysters to be introduced to Humber estuary in restoration plan
European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal waters.
Half a million native European flat oysters will be introduced to the estuary after being carefully nurtured by Wilder Humber, a partnership between Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and the green energy company Ørsted.
Yorkshire Wildlife Oyster Restoration project, based on the Spurn Point, Humberside.
The project aims to restore the number of native oysters on the seabed of the North sea and Humber estuary.
Oyster Larvae are bred and hatched in a bio controlled location by the The Oyster Restoration Co in remote Scotland. The first batch of 400,000 oysters were transported to Yorkahire Wildlife site on the 4th September 2024 and placed to grow in controlled tanks.
Laura Welton holds the delivery of 400,000 young oyster larvae from The Oyster Restoration Project.
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Half a million oysters to be introduced to Humber estuary in restoration plan
European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal waters.
Half a million native European flat oysters will be introduced to the estuary after being carefully nurtured by Wilder Humber, a partnership between Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and the green energy company Ørsted.
Yorkshire Wildlife Oyster Restoration project, based on the Spurn Point, Humberside.
The project aims to restore the number of native oysters on the seabed of the North sea and Humber estuary.
Oyster Larvae are bred and hatched in a bio controlled location by the The Oyster Restoration Co in remote Scotland. The first batch of 400,000 oysters were transported to Yorkahire Wildlife site on the 4th September 2024 and placed to grow in controlled tanks.
A cluster of young oysters in a tank ready for micro filming by Film maker Finn Varna.
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Half a million oysters to be introduced to Humber estuary in restoration plan
European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal waters.
Half a million native European flat oysters will be introduced to the estuary after being carefully nurtured by Wilder Humber, a partnership between Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and the green energy company Ørsted.
Yorkshire Wildlife Oyster Restoration project, based on the Spurn Point, Humberside.
The project aims to restore the number of native oysters on the seabed of the North sea and Humber estuary.
Oyster Larvae are bred and hatched in a bio controlled location by the The Oyster Restoration Co in remote Scotland. The first batch of 400,000 oysters were transported to Yorkahire Wildlife site on the 4th September 2024 and placed to grow in controlled tanks.
Dr Boze Hancock, from The Nature Conservancy organisation and lead scientist in the Global project to restore the oyster numbers.
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Using volcanic undersea areas for green enery harvesting
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A plan to access a new source of green energy laying at the bottom of the ocean, has been unveiled.
Global tech and science company CGG wants to use offshore underground energy known as geothermal.
This is produced by volcanic areas under the sea where chambers of fiery-hot magma, effectively molten rock, is located.
These offshore areas could be harvested for freshwater, hydrogen, and ammonia, collectively creating an alternative set of rapidly scalable green energy sources.
Past attempts to tap into this using drilling has proved expensive and haphazard
But the new plan involves capturing the steam given off by these undersea volcanic areas and use it to power turbines and electrolyze it to produce green hydrogen which can also be converted to ammonia.
This can then be shipped for sale with fresh water condensed from the steam left over as another by-product.
The waste geothermal liquid known as brine is rich in nutrients for ocean wildlife and could be used for an enclosed, controlled fishery system..
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OPS: A diagram of how the system could work. The red vessel is drawing uo steam from the ocean floor in an active volcanic area to produce hydrogen, ammmonia and fresh water. Also linked to it is a fishery where nutrient can be piped to. The larger blue ship is transporting the hydrogen and ammonia to the shore.The smaller blue ship is unloading carbon dioxide for storage in obsolete magma chambers.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Paolo Fanciulli.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Paolo Fanciulli.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Paolo Fanciulli.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks Ð then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Paolo Fanciulli fishing in the seas off Talamone, Tuscany.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Paolo Fanciulli.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Paolo Fanciulli.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks Ð then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Sea creatures are making themselves at home on the Talamone sculptures.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks Ð then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Sea creatures are making themselves at home on the Talamone sculptures.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks Ð then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Siren, a sculpture by Giorgio Butini, is overgrown with marine vegetation in the underwater museum off Talamone, Tuscany.
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Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight
Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight. In a bid to stop illegal trawling, an Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks Ð then dropped them in the Mediterranean. Siren, a sculpture by Giorgio Butini, is overgrown with marine vegetation in the underwater museum off Talamone, Tuscany.
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands o
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Camouflaged sea creatures, Lembeh Strait, Indonesia - May 2014
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Devil scorpionfish - Inimicus didactylus, well camouflaged against the seabed
Spot The Critter: Camouflaged Sea Creatures
Can you spot the critter?
These amazing images show the lengths - or is that depths? - these undersea creatures go to disguise themselves.
British photographer Ed Brown captured these pictures last month at Lembeh Strait in Indonesia.
He explains: "The pictures were taken on my latest trip to Indonesia, a place called Lembeh Strait, well known to divers for having some of the best "muck diving" in the world. Muck diving can be characterised by the black sand and general bleakness of the seabed. It doesn't look much, but hides some of the weirdest critters you'll find underwater. The occasional coral outcrops house some of the more colourful examples; the pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti) being a particular favourite of mine, and only about 2cm big."
For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/BEDXWCOKL (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
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Camouflaged sea creatures, Lembeh Strait, Indonesia - May 2014
MANDATORY CREDIT: Ed Brown/Rex Features. IMAGES OUTSIDE OF PRINT VERSION NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS. FEES APPLY FOR UNIQUE IPAD USE.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ed Brown/REX (3785761k)
Longarm octopus - Octopus defilippi disappears against the sandy seabed
Spot The Critter: Camouflaged Sea Creatures
Can you spot the critter?
These amazing images show the lengths - or is that depths? - these undersea creatures go to disguise themselves.
British photographer Ed Brown captured these pictures last month at Lembeh Strait in Indonesia.
He explains: "The pictures were taken on my latest trip to Indonesia, a place called Lembeh Strait, well known to divers for having some of the best "muck diving" in the world. Muck diving can be characterised by the black sand and general bleakness of the seabed. It doesn't look much, but hides some of the weirdest critters you'll find underwater. The occasional coral outcrops house some of the more colourful examples; the pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti) being a particular favourite of mine, and only about 2cm big."
For more information visit http://www.rexfeatures.com/stacklink/BEDXWCOKL (FOTO:DUKAS/REX)
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Close up of a queen scallop (or queenie) sitting on a sandy seabed with the the mantle and eyes around the rim of the two shells clearly visible. There is a brightly coloured orange sponge growing on and covering the uppermost shell
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A hermit crab with its associated cloak anemone on a light coloured sandy seabed. The tentacles of a burrowing anemone are spread out on the sand surface just in front of the crab
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