by Mikkel Pitzner | Jun 24, 2013 | Erojacks, Osborne Tire Reef
7000 ft off Sunrise Boulevard and 3.8 miles North of Port Everglades at LAT 26°08.320 N and 80°04.830 W DGPS is a 50′ circle of Erojacks, 4 ft high each – at a depth of 65′ in the sand and 58-60′ on top of the Erojacks. The circle of Erojacks at the Osborne Reef is...
by Mikkel Pitzner | Jun 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Saturday June 15th 2013, the Global Underwater Explorer divers did another survey dive on the Osborne Reef for Project Baseline. 4 divers – Robert Carmichael, Paolo Passalacqua, Mikkel Pitzner and John Adair – were in the water and all carried video cameras,...
by Mikkel Pitzner | Jun 19, 2013 | Project Baseline Gulfstream
Photo Credit – All Rights Reserved: Mikkel Pitzner We all heard it before – a picture tells a thousand words – and it’s so true. When you talk to someone about upwards two million tires dumped into the Ocean, literally just yards from the beach they might be...
by Mikkel Pitzner | Jun 10, 2013 | Sand Dredging
We all can enjoy nice wide sandy beaches, but the projects of building these, when they are not just a natural occurrence often ends up destroying the natural reefs that actually would protect the naturally present beach. In order to build out beaches, sand is often...
by Mikkel Pitzner | May 31, 2013 | Osborne Tire Reef
The idea of using discarded tires to build man-made reefs in order to attract sea life and coral growth has been tried many different places all over the world. But it appears that all such projects eventually have failed miserably – some even disastrously. The image...
