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A company out of NJ named Reefmakers, is set to establish the second largest international reef off of the Florida Keys. The WWII ship, which was used to track missiles and aircraft, is going to be the new home for many fish species and hopefully corals. The 8.6 million dollar project, is years in the making, and will be paid by dividends from the new found diving and snorkeling business.
The Yahoo! article also said:
Preparation for sinking has taken months of inspections and cleanup to remove contaminants. Workers hauled off more than a million feet of wire, 1,500 vent gaskets, dozens of watertight steel doors, 81 bags of asbestos, 193 tons of potentially cancer-causing substances, 46 tons of garbage that could come loose and float to the surface, 300 pounds of materials containing mercury and 185 55-gallon drums of paint chips.
I hope that the people at Coral Restoration Foundation in the Keys, start to repopulate the reef using this new wreckage. Imagine the endangered staghorns A. cervicornis creating a forest around the ship, teaming with life. I will attempt to contact the team at CRF to see if they have any initiatives to use the wreckage as a reef re-population point. Stay tuned.
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brilliant … one question though … what are the Americans going to do with
“1,500 vent gaskets, dozens of watertight steel doors, 81 bags of asbestos, 193 tons of potentially cancer-causing substances, 46 tons of garbage that could come loose and float to the surface, 300 pounds of materials containing mercury and 185 55-gallon drums of paint chips.”
I guess nature has its way of recycling the waste. It has before, so why not now.