Homemade artificial reef

[JohnB]

One of the local clubs bought/salvaged and old barge and started the permitting process to turn it into a reef. They hit a snag, the coast guard deemed the vessel unseaworthy, and wouldn't issue a permit. Mind you, the plan was to sink it, but they wouldn't issue a permit, because it wasn't seaworthy enough to sink .

[NoBones]

That is a concern as the Coastie's do not want it
to sink in the wrong place and become a hazard
to navigation. There are ways to secure the barge
to be able to pass inspection.

See ya, Ken

[Finster]

Coastie's do not want it
to sink in the wrong place and become a hazard
to navigation.

Thats exactly true.

I'm dealing with one barge thats gonna need 7 2" pumps to keep it afloat.

[Mark]

How do Shimano Stradic's do as artificial reefs? I've willfully added more than a couple to the bottom [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[wavelength]

I wish we had the depth here to sink a ship! Where I live, check out the 11408 chart, is very shallow and if you find a ledge or a washer it will hold grouper in the summer. Our average in depth is 1 foot deeper for every mile you go offshore. The bottom is very flat and mostly sand between the Barge Canal and Cedar Key so once you get a pile going it attracts. If I want to fish 35 feet of water I have to travel 28 to 29 miles out with the price of gas and my 225 Johnson closer is better.

[JohnB]

The barge made it through all the hurricanes, and sat floating for about a couple of years. I think it would make the trip . Anyways, they cut it up for scrap and it will come back as a honda.