Martin County Florida Artificial Reefs Deployed August 24, 2009

Martin County FloridaThree New Artificial Reef Sites

Deployed August 24th 2009

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Sea Rover Services

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.