WOW! Have you guys heard of this????

[TyWench]

Trust me, Plot - I'm still too green to let the DM outta my sight! As I was reading in another discussion - certification came way too easy, I don't feel like I know enough yet to leave the nest, so to speak. And I won't, until I'm comfortable! Thanks for the good advice!

K

 

[fairybasslet]

I saw this report on CNN while I was on the treadmill at the gym last week. It was so nice to see divers diving, and I could feel the nitrogen loading in my blood. Ahh. I know. I'm sick but I have a really bad case of withdrawal.

 

[ClayJar]

I would *so* volunteer for a week of tire-retrieval diving if they ever decided to use the general diving public. Get me out there and give me something to breathe (don't know the depths, so I can't be specific), and I'll gladly put in the work.

(Of course, the chances of anyone ever making the offer for me to take are somewhere between slim and a lawyer, but I've driven farther to clean up dry land...)

 

[ehuber]

This is a typical managerial decision... make it someone else's problem, take no responsibility for the decision, and pretend you didn't get any advice against it so you don't have to take responsibility for the cleanup.

Everyone involved in this should have to pay for its cleanup and return all the tires from whence they came... this is the most idiodic thing I've ever heard, and it does not take a genius to figure out an object almost neutrally-buoyant in the water could actually MOVE?!

 

[Rick Murchison]

This is a typical managerial decision... make it someone else's problem, take no responsibility for the decision, and pretend you didn't get any advice against it so you don't have to take responsibility for the cleanup.

Everyone involved in this should have to pay for its cleanup and return all the tires from whence they came... this is the most idiodic thing I've ever heard, and it does not take a genius to figure out an object almost neutrally-buoyant in the water could actually MOVE?!

Inasmuch as there are precedent sites where tires have been used with success and without damage to the surrounding environment, you're painting with a pretty broad brush here. Secondary effects are not always readily apparent; 20/20 hindsight is.
The latest good news I've heard is that the Navy's figured out some way to use the mitigation of this site as a training exercise.
Rick

 

[DaytonaDave]

Going to start a new Thread with information on future volunteer info.

Will call it: Tire Reef Cleanup - Fort Lauderdale

 

[OceanObsessed]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/broadba...res,0,7969275.flash?coll=sfla-theedge-2promos

Here is an interesting slide show, about the tires, that was featured in the Sun-Sentinel a while back.

 

[plot]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/broadba...res,0,7969275.flash?coll=sfla-theedge-2promos

Here is an interesting slide show, about the tires, that was featured in the Sun-Sentinel a while back.

WOW! THATS ALOT OF TIRES!

Good find... simply amazing. I can now see why it's gonna take forever to clean it up.

 

[brutus_scuba]

I may have just missed it in the article but what's the depth on this? How deep are these tires?

 

[Wayfarer2]

There is some more info in a Wikipedia entry about the tire reefs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef
And this article states depth as 65-75ft
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15560115.htm
Info and tire rycling and the properties of rubber
http://www.ohiodnr.com/recycling/awareness/facts/tires/
Very Interesting "Neoprene, considered the first commercially viable synthetic rubber"