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In my area, there are at least 200 of those PUBLICLY deployed with the GPS numbers listed. Not counting all the private ones that people have deployed.
We also have piles of army tanks, airplanes, old concrete bridge rubble piles, and more manmade reefs like that one in the picture, and every other configuration.
IMO, any ocean dumping for the purpose of artificial reef production should follow long term ecological guidelines specific to that locale.
You are right. And they are very particular and there is a 10 page document outlining the rules for making and deploying your own private reefs, and they must be inspected permitted first. Also there is a designated area in the Gulf that is the only allowable place to deploy them. And as far as the ones they publicly deploy, they are EXTREMELY enviromently safe.
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And of course, the larges artificial reef in the world...the USS Oriskany aircraft carrier. There are some pictures of it in my picture gallery link below. With the flag, and POW~MIA flag.
Fish can't read, PR doesn't impress them, just the tourists. Barnacles are non-political, they'll attach to anything in the sea that isn't freshly coated with toxic "marine paint".
Actually I think the flags that are maintained and replaced on a regular basis are more for the proud service men who served on the Oriskany, including for the many men who lost there lives aboard the ship during the combat it saw during several wars. Some of the retired service men where there for the sinking.
Also, there has been 2 Discovery Channel specials on the Oriskany, and the first one was entirely about preparing the ship for sinking, at a cost of millions of tax payers dollars to completely remove all paint, hydrolic fluids, toxic chemicals, rubbers and plastics, residues, ect. It was in port for a year that I can rember during the preperation.
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We are fortunate that our county and state goverment put so much into our artificial reef program. And let us deploy our own permitted reefs.
Is that the same government that built the rubber reefs?
Don't know who that would be or how long ago, but no. Here rubber, plastic, toxics, ect. are NOT allowed.
In my area, there are at least 200 of those PUBLICLY deployed with the GPS numbers listed. Not counting all the private ones that people have deployed.
We also have piles of army tanks, airplanes, old concrete bridge rubble piles, and more manmade reefs like that one in the picture, and every other configuration.
IMO, any ocean dumping for the purpose of artificial reef production should follow long term ecological guidelines specific to that locale.
You are right. And they are very particular and there is a 10 page document outlining the rules for making and deploying your own private reefs, and they must be inspected permitted first. Also there is a designated area in the Gulf that is the only allowable place to deploy them. And as far as the ones they publicly deploy, they are EXTREMELY enviromently safe.
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And of course, the larges artificial reef in the world...the USS Oriskany aircraft carrier. There are some pictures of it in my picture gallery link below. With the flag, and POW~MIA flag.
Fish can't read, PR doesn't impress them, just the tourists. Barnacles are non-political, they'll attach to anything in the sea that isn't freshly coated with toxic "marine paint".
Actually I think the flags that are maintained and replaced on a regular basis are more for the proud service men who served on the Oriskany, including for the many men who lost there lives aboard the ship during the combat it saw during several wars. Some of the retired service men where there for the sinking.
Also, there has been 2 Discovery Channel specials on the Oriskany, and the first one was entirely about preparing the ship for sinking, at a cost of millions of tax payers dollars to completely remove all paint, hydrolic fluids, toxic chemicals, rubbers and plastics, residues, ect. It was in port for a year that I can rember during the preperation.
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We are fortunate that our county and state goverment put so much into our artificial reef program. And let us deploy our own permitted reefs.
Is that the same government that built the rubber reefs?
Don't know who that would be or how long ago, but no. Here rubber, plastic, toxics, ect. are NOT allowed.