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Sharks - Close encounters
Peter Verhoog and Georgina Wiersma
This book invites you on a mesmerizing journey into the deep blue and beyond the Hollywood image of sharks as fearsome monsters.
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Lawson Wood
Includes Shetland Islands, Scapa Flow, and the Hebrides
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US Military halts cleanup of Florida tire reef

Submitted by Editor on 14 February, 2010 - 21:12
Military says it's stretched too thin by the ongoing wars overseas to continue clean up of a failed reef off the coast of Fort Lauderdale
  NOAA
August 1976: "Once popular tire reefs may break apart and wash up on beaches." Yes, indeed
Officials announced Wednesday it has called off the clean up of a big pile of junk the U.S. Navy dumped off the coast of Fort Lauderdale in 1972.

Hundreds of thousands of tires were sunk off Ft. Lauderdale in 1972 in hopes they would turn into a coral reef.

The mesh of 700,000 old tires, metal and nylon was supposed to become this grand artificial reef, but little sea life formed on them and many tires came loose and scoured a patch of the ocean floor the size of 31 football fields. Thousands have wedged up against the nearby natural reef, stacked several feet high, blocking coral growth and devastating marine life.

Army and Navy divers began trying to clean up the ecological blunder in 2007 and used it as a training exercise, but the mess is only 10 percent cleared away, officials said. The earliest the cleanup could resume would be 2012. Military divers have spent the last three summers pulling up thousands of tires as a training exercise

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