Artificial reef construction Boracay

[Torpedo]

Fish and other marine life depends on having shelter. Natural reefs provide all a healthy and active reef-life needs. Shelter, food, beauty of living, a pleasant environment for colorful marine life.
However if the reef is more and more destroyed by increasing number of dropped anchors as well as pollution from overpopulation of the nearby island - then artificial measures are needed to create new reef space.
These and similar artificial reef building structures will soon be covered entirely by various coral growth. A newly sunken wreck for example takes but a very few months to be almost entirely covered by a huge number and variety of sponges, corals, soft corals and other marine growth and inhabited by schools of fish.

Other materials for artificial reef construction would be

· Car and truck tires - however care needs to be used with such artificial materials to assure no toxic solvents are flowing into nature to poison the environment more than it would support and benefit the natural environment development. Car tires and truck tires piled up have the advantage of surviving all storms, surge and waves but usually take longer to be fully covered by marine growth.
· Ships also are used to be emptied of all liquids, oil and any dangerous material, wires, etc and then sunken in a safe place to build an artificial reef of greater size.

[Red sea shark]

Originally Posted by Torpedo

then artificial measures are needed to create new reef space.
These and similar artificial reef building structures will soon be covered entirely by various coral growth. A newly sunken wreck for example takes but a very few months to be almost entirely covered by a huge number and variety of sponges, corals, soft corals and other marine growth and inhabited by schools of fish.

I disagree,The best method however always is the natural reef protection from the very beginning. Artificial reef re-construction such as this mini-project on Boracay Island is expensive and inefficient. The few dozen small Terra cotta container cost some 1000 US$. Environment protection when done from the very beginning always is free and of lasting nature - while such artificial reefs may last but from a few months to a few years until they brake again into peaces.

[Dragonfire]

Hey guys ,

i have some points on both of you,first every body is specking about protecting the nature but we are havin more distruction,so we better find a way that people of the future will have something to dive for,and i dont mean that we have to make more shipwrecks.

May be artificial will help ,may be not....this is what we will see in the
REEF RESILIENCE CONFERENCE 2008
'Coping with Climate Change'

April 22 to 24, 2008
Key Largo Bay Marriott Beach Resort
Key Largo, Florida

How will coral reefs, and the people who depend upon them, adapt to global climate change?

How will reef managers respond to changing reef conditions and changes in the ways that people use reefs?

I hope people will agree on somthing effecttive and real,not just more fancy speak.

I hope the future divers will have a reason to dive