BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – On Thursday, local students saw all their hard work come to fruition. On May 8, a program sponsored by the Bay County Artificial Reef Association, the University of Florida ...

On July 2, 2012, the USS Mohawk was towed from Fort Myers some 30 miles off of Sanibel Island before being scuttled in 90 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Divers are essentially tourists who love coral reefs and invest a lot of time and effort to watch them. Unfortunately, divers also cause damage to corals, often unintentionally, through disturbing and ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Spirit of Norfolk will soon have a new purpose. Meeting documents from Okaloosa County, Florida detail that the Spirit and the Skippin Sue vessel were approved to be sold for over ...

Marine scientists say artificial reefs can help reduce coastal erosion and keep large materials out of landfills.

In this KING 5 update, the Environment Northwest team gets exclusive access to Washington state's cleanup. This reverses a ...

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 ...