ABOVE: More than 400 tons of limestone rock were dropped into 65 feet of water by Palm Beach County’s Environmental Resource Management to create a new reef called FWC Rocks 2022. RIGHT: The reef is located about 3,000 feet east of the Seagate Club,
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A concrete reef dart plunges into 500 feet of water off Palm Beach Inlet on Oct. 22. The 40 reef darts — concrete poles on heavy bases — added by the West Palm Beach Fishing Club bring the total to 110 at the deep artificial reef site. Photo provide
Allison and Luke Van Natta photograph their 8-month-old daughter, Elizabeth, while a limestone boulder is deployed to the reef. The Van Nattas were in town from Wisconsin, visiting family members in Boca Raton. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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County environmental officials dropped 530 tons of boulders into the ocean northeast of the Boca Raton Inlet to create an artificial reef that intends to help fish moving to the open sea. All four county inlets now have such reefs. Tim Stepien/The Co
The 324-foot ship Lady Luck was scuttled in 120 feet of water off Pompano Beach
on the afternoon of July 23, adding to the dive destinations already in Shipwreck Park.
Photo provided by Elaine Fitzgerald
The Ana Cecilia begins taking on water off Sin
By Mike Readling
When Palm Beach County installed 62, 1- to 2-ton pods just offshore from Ocean Ridge last year, the idea was to provide a breakwater for the beachrenourishment project it had in the works.
One of the byproducts of that venture was
