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MiamiHerald.com | 09/20/2006 | Artificial reef made of tires becomes ecological disaster
A plan in the early 1970s to create a massive artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale has turned into an environmental mess with the U.S. Navy, Broward County and others trying to figure out how to remove about two million tires covering 36 acres of ocean floor.

What was intended to lure game fish now is damaging sensitive coral reefs and littering Broward’s tourist-populated shoreline.

The tires dot the ocean bottom a mile and a half from the end of Sunrise Boulevard. Environmentalists say strong tides — especially during hurricanes and tropical storms — cause the loose tires to knock against coral reefs, disrupting the ecosystem. In some cases, tires have washed ashore.

dump tires on the ocean floor? metal doesnt rust or anything, they surely will not come loose and start to roll around, trashing real reefs, perhaps floating ashore?

I guess it was a good idea with true intentions in the beginning

but… the tanker ones are apparently working well though, i call for more of those!