Would you participate in a Gov't sanctioned Arti Reef project?

[Charlie]

I seriously doubt you would be able to use anything remotely close to what's been mentioned so far.I've only seen the makings of two arti's and they have been carefuly constructed structures,the first consisted of welded triangular prisms (quite large and heavey) and the second,was at the Georges River Basin in november which consisted of huge hexagon concrete blocks with sizeable holes on each flat face tunneling into the centre.I think you'll find the days of dumping 'rubish'at sea are long gone,even the vesels the sink now are meticulously striped and cleaned.

The big advantage of reef balls etc is you relocate them if they move or you want to remove the reef. I know its very unlikely to happen but its lot easier to argue for something that's reversible.

[bondy99]

Bondy, I think I read a while back they were using tyres made into structures for arty reefs down south (SA possibly). They worked well apparently. But years later when the tyres reached the point where they started to break down it was a different story. Leaching nasty crap into the water and killing the plants.

Personally I don't care what the authorities tell us we can and can't use. Just tell us where to dump it and lets crack on! With the EPA not really giving a crap about habitat destruction until it's political time it's up to us to get serious about creating habbitat.

Lovey80,

Yeah, I hear where you're coming from.

They can use those pyramid shaped devices that was used in WWII to stop tanks. They are bloody big and heavy, you would need a crane to lift these buggers ont a barge and positioned on the barge in such away that she will drop straight down, you can have a few of these scattered and in no time there will be marine growth that will encpurage bait fish and predators alike.

Im in like flynn on this one.

bondy

[Lovey80]

Thread revival lol I got a dislike alert on the thread and thought I'd check it out. Bondy those pyramid concrete designs are still in use. The 4 sided one is known as a dragons tooth and the three sided one is called the tetrahedron. They are used to channel tanks into killing grounds as when a tank tries to climb them they offer a fantastic belly shot to the bottom the the tank. At over a tonne each hard to deploy from a rec boat though.

[waterbaby]

the one of woodgate works well helped to build it back in the 80s we used tyres stacked up and wired together barged then out to two bouys then pushed then of goverment said after years of doing this it was bad so the built some steel frames instead they are working fine and bottom is sand they bring in all types of fish life mackeral,cod hang around them have caught some red fish off them as well
iam all for them or some fads off the coast