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In 2018, Delaware sank its 325-foot Twin Capes ferry after 43 years of service; the ship now forms part of an offshore artificial reef

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The M/V Twin Capes joined Delaware’s artificial reef network in 2018, creating underwater habitat for fish and marine organisms. The reef program also draws anglers and divers and generates more than $6 million in estimated annual economic benefits for the state. (AI-generated/ChatGPT)

The ferry M/V Twin Capes had been serving passengers for 43 years, traveling between Delaware and New Jersey. The story of this ferry took a new turn on June 15, 2018, when it was sunk intentionally to form part of Delaware’s artificial reef complex. According to a 2018 Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental … Read more

Florida rebuilt a degraded offshore oyster reef with dolomite limestone in 2018; within six months live-oyster density rose from near zero to 91 per square metre, and by year five it had reached 244

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Florida rebuilt a degraded offshore oyster reef with dolomite limestone in 2018; within six months live-oyster density rose from near zero to 91 per square metre, and by year five it had reached 244

Florida restored a degraded oyster reef in 2018; density rose to 91 per sq m in six months and 244 by year five (Image Credit: UF/IFAS) Florida’s Lone Cabbage Reef, once a productive oyster habitat that had deteriorated into a sandbar, began recovering after researchers and local oyster harvesters rebuilt it with dolomite limestone in … Read more

Heavy rains hit Mexico as Hurricane Polo tracks offshore, expected to make landfall on Sunday night

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Heavy rains hit Mexico as Hurricane Polo tracks offshore, expected to make landfall on Sunday night

By Paolo Laudani Heavy rains hit Mexico as Hurricane Polo tracks offshore, expected to make landfall on Sunday night Sept 24 – Heavy surf and rain lashed southwestern Mexico as “extremely powerful” Hurricane Polo crawls northwest offshore the mainland, the US National Hurricane Center said in a bulletin on Thursday. With maximum sustained winds near … Read more

A painter paid $192,000 for a 1902 lighthouse three miles offshore; now he wants to turn the abandoned structure into a destination

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A painter paid $192,000 for a 1902 lighthouse three miles offshore; now he wants to turn the abandoned structure into a destination

Hooper Island Lighthouse. Image Credit: WBOC For more than a century, the 1902 Hooper Island Lighthouse has stood three miles offshore in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Years of exposure have left the historic structure badly in need of repair, but its latest owner sees an opportunity to give it a new purpose. Pennsylvania painter Rich Cucé … Read more