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 ...

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — If you build it, they will come. Just eight months after Ocean Rescue Alliance International deployed 50 artificial reef structures off the shores of Hollywood Beach, the underwater ...

Martin County will sink former smuggling vessel as artificial reef on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Artificial reefs provide 39,000 jobs for Floridians and generates $3.1 billion of economic activity annually.

Two new artificial reefs destined for the Gulf were designed by students The reefs will be sunk soon thanks to a $50,000 donation from Coastal Conservation Association The project is part of Escambia ...

McCulley Marine Services, a key artificial reef deployment company in Florida, closed in 2023 due to rising costs. Florida governments and nonprofits are shifting focus to smaller, nearshore ...

A 200-foot barge has become the latest addition to the Little Egg Inlet Reef, the same spot where artificial reef balls were added last year. The barge, identified as No. 199, was sponsored by the ...

Herbivorous reef fish play a critical role in reef resilience. Lauʻīpala (yellow tang) and kole (surgeonfish), heavily ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McCulley Marine Services deployed artificial reefs from Brevard to Miami-Dade counties for over two decades, but now there's no ...