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The Osborne Reef is an artificial reef project situated off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was one of many attempts in the 1970s and 80s to mimic the environmental benefits of coral reefs using old tires, but it has become an environmental disaster. ..
In the 1970s, a local nonprofit created the Osborne Reef by dropping more than two million tires into Florida’s coastal waters in an attempt to create an environment where marine life would thrive...
Goodyear, which provided many of the tires, even christened the reef by dropping a gold-plated tire into the ocean from the Goodyear Blimp...
Wonder where the gold-plated tire is.
“Ultimately, the well-intentioned project failed,” 4ocean wrote in an Instagram post sharing eerie photos of the reef. “And now 4ocean is stepping in to clean them up!”...
Here is the link for to read the rest of the article.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, or so they say, and I guess tires, rolling or not, will make no reef.
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Scientists have found what they believe to be the earliest known evidence of wine drinking in the Americas, inside ceramic artefacts recovered from a small Caribbean Island. Forty ceramic sherds were examined in the first study to have used molecular analysis techniques – Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry - to investigate 15th century pottery from the Puerto Rico region...
The analysis included sherds from a Spanish olive jar that could be dated between 1490-1520 AD. The rounded style of the jar shows it to be this early and aligns it to the timing of when Columbus first noted the existence of the island in his diary in 1494...
Here is the source link.
Earliest evidence of wine consumption in the Americas found in Caribbean (cranfield.ac.uk)
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Still searching to find a source of detailed information in a form that makes it easy to make predictions about beach detecting conditions since they changed the MagicSeaWeed site.
Yesterday I pointed out the NCBC site. You can find a lot of information on the NDBC site, including detailed data from buoys along the coast. It doesn't make it as easy as the old MagicSeaWeed chart did, but there is a lot of information there.
See NDBC - Station 41114 Recent Data (noaa.gov) for example. That gives you the wind and wave data from the bout near Pepper Park.
And Sebastian Inlet Webcam (sebastianinletcam.com) provides wind data and pictures of the Sebastian area beach. Below is an example.
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| North of Sebastian Inlet Beach Cam Showing State of Beach This Morning. |
If you are ever thinking of running out to Sebastian, you might want to check this site first.
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Most wokesters never have to wake up to go to work or take the kids to school so they can sit around and wait for a community organizer to call them out to a protest. Without any meaningful sense of significance they become the eager tool of the grievance industry.
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Here is the NDBC prediction for today.
The sea measure given by NDBC does not translate exactly like the MagicSeaWeed data.
Still seeking for something similar to the MagicSeaWeed charts that I always used in the past.
Thanks to DJ for his help.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net