JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two years ago, Joe Kistel led the charge to deliberately sink two ships about 28 miles off Jacksonville coast. The goal was to create artificial reefs. Last month, he and a ...

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

McCulley Marine Services deployed artificial reefs from Brevard to Miami-Dade counties for over two decades, but now there's no one left to do that work since the Fort Pierce business closed in 2023.

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 ...

The Lake Ponchartrain Basin Foundation along with the LSU Sea Grant and other organizations Tuesday deployed four new artificial reefs in Lake Pontchartrain designed to increase fishing opportunities ...

Floating about 500 feet offshore of Illinois Beach State Park, Hillary Glandon tightened her scuba goggles, grabbed a small masonite plate from a nearby kayak and dove beneath the Lake Michigan ...

SABINE PASS, Texas — On Thursday morning, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) dumped a concrete block into the Gulf of Mexico as part of the new artificial reef that is being built. The ...

The bottom of the ocean is a mysterious place, often home to many objects that are not naturally part of marine life. However, some of these confusing objects found on the ocean floor were not victims ...

FILE - A NOAA diver photographs a reef inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, in 2019, before the area was affected by last summer's bleaching event. A new artificial reefs program that ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program will provide essential fish pupils a chance to grow healthy with their latest installation of artificial coral reefs. Just in time for Earth Day, 24 ...

TEXAS (KXAN) — The construction of the world’s largest artificial reef has been delayed again. The SS United States was scheduled for transport from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Mobile, Alabama over ...

Tropical and subtropical fish are showing up in greater numbers off the North Carolina coast, thanks in part to the dozens of artificial reefs the state created to lure more scuba divers, Duke ...