Mexico

Reef association gets a boost from Progress Energy

Feb 24, 2011
www.starfl.com

The Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association was presented Friday, Feb. 11 with a $1,000 check from Bobby Pickels with Progress Energy.

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Underwater Museum to Protect Coral Reefs

October 3, 2009
www.ipsnews.net

Four sculptures in human forms, made of concrete, will be submerged in November in the Mexican Caribbean

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SS Catalina is seaworthy no more

Los Angeles Times
January 6, 2009

The once-proud steamship, which ferried millions of passengers to the island town of Avalon, is being cut for scrap after sitting for years in Ensenada harbor.

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British Sculptor Contracted for Underwater Project in Mexico

www.divenews.com
December 24, 2008

British underwater sculptor Jason de Caires Taylor has had contracts agreed for a new ambitious underwater project in Mexico, placed within the National Marine Park of Cancun, Isla Mujeres and Nisuc.

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56,000 Ton Artificial Reef

October 24, 2008
This Is Cozumel

Francine Cousteau, president of the Cousteau Society and widow of undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, visited the island as its "godmother".

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News List

Maritime Administration ahead of schedule in scrapping Suisun Bay mothball fleet 10/15/2012 Aged and crumbling ships may be leaving the Suisun Bay "mothball" Reserve Fleet at a steady pace, but some of their value is being left behind. Vallejo's California Maritime Academy, one of six state maritime schools nationwide, soon will see a nearly $400,000 funding influx, proceeds from the sale of the obsolete vessels. The new funding, $2.2 million overall, is due to a federal mandate requiring federal reinvestment into maritime schools. State delays horseshoe crab sculpture sinking for two weeks 7/26/2012 Artist Chris Wojcik and his Art as Reef team will have to wait at least another two weeks before they can see their 47-foot, life-like horseshoe crab sculpture reach its final destination, the Axel Carlson Reef. Artificial Reef Project Moves Forward Despite Controversy 7/26/2012 Roughly five weeks ago, with the hope of jump-starting a plan to install a fish ​— ​and fishermen ​— ​friendly artificial reef offshore of Santa Barbara, Chris Goldblatt and some colleagues dropped two 1,300-pound hollow concrete igloos into the ocean offshore of Hendry’s Beach. STRI Board of Directors 8/25/2009 Steven M. Barsky Joel Geldin Dick Long Eleanore Rewerts Robert Watts