- Location
- Florida, NY
Artificial Tire Reef -
- Thread starter alistair
- Start date
- Location
- Nueva York
Its about time they started taking care of the problem. They knew about it for a while now. Its a shame that a well intentioned program went bad.
- Location
- NY
Wow, government owning up to a mistake! What is this country coming to.
Thanks for the link A. Glad to see it taking place and not just talk about it.
R
Thanks for the link A. Glad to see it taking place and not just talk about it.
R
- Location
- Florida, NY
How many of you would even consider dropping an old tire into your tank?
- Location
- NY
- Location
- Nueva York
Honestly i dont think they could have seen a project failure in the foresight. Its like the MTA dumping old train cars off the coast of georgia or purposely sinking a ship to setup a reef site.... those things worked. There just wasnt really a way to foretell the future of the project.
- Location
- NYC - 10026
i think the main problem is they weren't anchored well enough. there are some tires sunk off Maui and they certainly have coral encrusting on them. they anchored them in concrete troughs.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Ask and you shall receive......I bet PaulB would be willing:lol_large
Wow all those aquarium decorations going to waste.
Actually I have been advocating dumping tires in the sea for decades just not in the tropics. In New York where I do most of my diving I see a lot of tires. Most of them fell off tugboats which use them for bumpers. In almost every tire in the Long Island Sound there lives a lobster. Most of the Sound has a mud bottom with large rocks mixed in. There are not enough hiding places for lobster which limits their number by not giving them a secure den to live in. When there is no rocks (or tires) the lobsters can dig a hole but they are preyed upon by almost everything.
We have large blackfish, sculpins and shark that eat them.
In the Sound the tires quickly get partially burried in the thick mud and they are not going anywhere. Where there are no rocks (or tires) there are also no lobsters or fish.
Paul :lobster:
- Location
- NY
And there you have it. Thanks for stepping forward Paul.
swimmer
swimmer
- Location
- Florida, NY
So Paul, your recommending that they send all these tires north so you can dump them in LI sound?
- Location
- Staten Island
Well plastic does grow coraline really quick:lol2:
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Well maybe not all of them, we have enough of our own tires.
- Location
- NY
Wouldn't the tropical species of tires add diversity to our reefs? :supermad::biggrin:
j/k
- Location
- Flushing NY 11355
:lol_largeAsk and you shall receive......I bet PaulB would be willing
swimmer
- Location
- Flushing NY 11355
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