Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Artificial reefs

One by one, a machine operator has been shoving hundreds of retired New York City subway cars off a barge, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass and tautog.

- NY Times (link here)

Interesting article on artificial reefs.

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