Florida waterways draw visitors from all over to enjoy recreational boating, fishing and swimming. Keeping those waterways ...

Martin County will sink a 227-foot-long freighter in about 200 feet of water nine miles off the St. Lucie Inlet in Stuart on Nov. 18 to create the Boo McCulley Reef. It will be at least the ninth ship ...

Millions of tires, old washing machines, barges, warships, covering the ocean floor with thousands of square kilometers of concrete—even giant, concrete spheres full of holes: these are all things ...

Pollution and rising sea surface temperatures are decimating the world's coral reef populations. According to a 2020 Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network report, the world's oceans lost roughly 14% of ...

The area’s newest artificial reef is now on the bottom of the Gulf. But it’s going to be a while before anyone can visit. The ...

Research using a consumer-grade ‘fish finding’ sonar, shows that artificial tree reefs in the Wadden Sea provide habitat for ...

A wide-open expanse of seafloor covered with sand doesn't present many opportunities for sea creatures to survive. Reefs, on the other hand, are absolutely brimming with life. While debris like ship ...

In its latest attempt to help rebuild reefs of the coast of Georgia, the Department of Natural Resources has sunk a retired barge to help create an artificial reef. Before sinking it, the 130-foot ...

The Orlando Utilities Commission is donating dozens of concrete utility pole sections to help build a new artificial reef off the Brevard County coast, a project aimed at reducing landfill waste while ...

Lee County has the distinction of being the home of the first Veterans Memorial Reef dedicated to all U.S. veterans using a military ship. On July 2, 2012, the USS Mohawk was towed from Fort Myers ...

POINT LOOKOUT, Nassau County (WABC) -- Old train cars were used to create an artificial reef off the coast of Long Island Wednesday, part of a project Governor Andrew Cuomo is passionate about. "This ...