martin county florida artificial reefs deployed august 24, 2009
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Newest Artificial Reefs (Sirotkin Site) built in Martin County - August 24, 2009 1,500 TONS THREE NEW REEFS DEPTH: 187 feet 27° 12.814 80° 00.289 27° 12.936 80° 00.280 27° 13.040 80° 00.306TRANSCRIPT
Martin County FloridaThree New Artificial Reef Sites
Deployed August 24th 2009
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Kerry Dillon
Deployment August 24th
photo taken right before start of deployments.
Here is a photo taken by Kerry Dillon the day of deployment
while barge was fully loaded
Here's a photo 14 hours later after the first
This is obviously after the deployments were
just about completed.
Here's the first of several photos of the new reefs underwater.
This one is at site "Charlie", the peak at 174 ft. in 187 ft. of seawater.
This one we got lucky and two of the large concrete boxes landed on top of each other with a culvert sticking out of the top one.
This photos was taken on Saturday Aug. 29th 5 days after deployment on the 24th
Here's the one with the two boxes and the culvert.
Here's one of my buddy Chris during the post deployment dives
and measurements of the reefs footprint on the seafloor.
This one is at site Alphaphoto taken Aug 30th
6 days after deployment. Nice stacking & grouping at sites Alpha & Charlie
site Bravo is a bit more scattered.
Yes there are baitfish already on the new reefs
this is site Alpha in the morning dive, 6 days after the reef was
built on the 24th
Kerry shooting video of the new reefs
Never did figure out what type of baitfish this was but it followed us for
about 35 minutes during deco stops as we drifted 1.5 miles, it kept circling us
but was pretty well mannered, only got closer than 10 feet one time. It was
about 6 feet long. Makes the deco go by with less boredom; all in a days work
Buddy Chris during 1.5 mile drifting deco stop.
In between dives ( 3 hour surface interval) we had to do something so we trolled and caught
3 kingfish. Not a bad day overall.