Artificial Reefs - You"ll Be Amazed What We Are Dumping In Our Oceans, All In The Name Of Conservation

In a recent article we discussed the work of Jason de Caires Taylor, who creates underwater sculptures that also act as structures upon which corals can attach and grow.

But artificial reefs are also created by governments and organisations around the world using hardware that is surplus to requirements or passed it’s ‘sell-buy’ date.

Take a look at the photographs below of some of the projects from around the world. You’ll be amazed what we we are dumping in our oceans in the name of conservation!

Ships

U.S. military missile-tracking Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg past the historic Custom House in Key West (Reuters/Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau)

Before being sunk…

The Oriskany, a decommissioned aircraft carrier, was towed 24 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Florida (AP Photo/U.S. Navy/Jeffrey P. Kraus)

Sinking slowly to the bottom

HMNZS Wellington, a frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy, was scuttled off the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand,

Tanks

25 retired tanks from the Thai military are loaded on a ship at Bangkok port, Thailand,  before being dumped into the Gulf of Thailand to serve as artificial reefs

Heading to their final resting place in the Gulf of Thailand

Tank of the Jordanian government sunk into the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea  (Dan Lundberg / CC BY-SA)

Trains

40 retired New York City subway cars were sunk in an area known as the “Bass Grounds” to form a reef for marine habitat. (AP Photo/Chuck Snyder)

A worker steam-cleans the interior of a decommissioned New York City “Redbird” subway car before heading out to Cape May, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Planes

Former Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov’s plane sunk in Black Sea near Varna

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Artificial Reefs - You"ll Be Amazed What We Are Dumping In Our Oceans, All In The Name Of Conservation