As promised in our post from June 20 2013, here come some more videos from our survey dives from the Osborne Reef.
On June 15 2013 we made a reconnaissance dive on the Osborne Reef following the Southern, Eastern and Northern perimeter , finishing with an extra 5 minutes dun time on the scooters heading due West (off of where we ended the perimeter line – somewhere between point 1 and 2 of the map below):
The Osborne Tire Reef Map from Broward County in connection with 2013 tire abatement proposal request.
We bring you this video here below in it’s almost full length (bits of footage where we just stopped for local spot reconnaissances have been cut out as has entry and exit). This is not an entertainment video, but it might prove useful to others who need to get an idea from the current status and placements of tires on the Osborne Reef.
In order for you to get the full perimeter documentation we bring also the video that was posted May 29 2013 which documents our dive from May 2013 in which we commence the dive fairly much at the same location as in the video above, but instead of heading East-ward we head North following the Western perimeter of the Osborne Reef. Again in this video we also head West once we reach the Northern perimeter and document what we see there.
The perimeter proved challenging at times to follow as the lines have become rather fuzzy seeing that so much tire migration has taken place, but the dives actually were very much on key.
The final parts of the two dives show remarkably different scenarios. In the video that follows the Southern, Eastern and Northern perimeter, once we leave the Osborne Reef and head due West, the amount of tires that have migrated and are to be seen there are limited. The area we visited on this part of the dive was basically only sandy bottom with a few tires here and there.
In stark contrast, the second video on this webpage shows a huge amount of tires scattered all over and tires that almost lie like strings all the way from the bulk of tires at the Osborne Reef all the way over to the natural reef by Fisherman Pedestal.
Once at the natural reef, as can be seen in the second video on this webpage, we found large amounts of tires jammed up against the natural reef and on top of the natural reef.
In our description in our update post from May 29 2013, we pretty much did not see the remnants of tires being bundled – this was when we followed the Western perimeter Northbound. Our more recent dive that followed the Southern, Eastern and Northern perimeter, the fact that most of the tires were originally bundled together was much more clear to see. However, when we did see some of the nylon straps that held them together, these were either broken and some of the tires were already separated from the bundles or empty just leaving the strap sticking up from the sand bottom or attached to a single tir
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