Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Well Intended Tires
I would hope there is a lesson learned here.
"Well intended" doesn't play well when damage is the result...
"Well intended" doesn't play well when damage is the result...
The Army News Service's Lindy Dinklage reports:
"'In 1972, a number of organizations with good intentions dropped about two million tires in the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to build the world's largest man-made reef,' said Chief Warrant Officer Shane Sherrad, vessel master for the LCU-2017, El Caney. 'In reality, nothing grew, and the tires began to drift, damaging the existing reefs on either side of the man made reef. Our job was to figure out how to recover the tires in order to protect the other reefs.'
Some of the hundreds of thousands of tires lining the ocean bottom have begun to wash up on local shores and into existing marine life, making them a hazardous presence on the ocean floor."
