Artificial reef made out of tires causing big mess off Fort Lauderdale coast

Nearly 70 feet below the ocean's surface, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, is a reminder of a bad idea from the 1970s: hundreds of thousands of used tires sitting on the ocean floor.

[leeham]

My guess is that they needed to dump a bunch of tires into the ocean, and found an excuse to do so.

[lol]

They dumped them tires because they had nowhere to store them and they couldn't melt the rubber because of the smell and pollution,

[crunchu]

**dumps garbage in ocean** uhhhh.... yeah its for a artificial reef haha

[lachlanoneil]

This is what it looked like then, fish everywhere, after none at all.

[matthewwilliams]

Wonder whom initially approved that project and how much taxpayer $$ was spent to build that problem in the first place, bet those involved made a huge sum of profits upon that bad idea that’s now costing a lot more to remove it all.

[fickledworldwelivein]

Thank You! Showing the END RESULTS was as Fanatical as its Inception 😢

[tucathehuskyboxermix]

10 years ro remove 1/3 of the tires? Is that correct???

[ThatCasualZach]

This is why my goal is to create large artificial reefs of metal and concrete

[christopherhanley]

Not knocking it but then vs now notice all the fish are gone? Then vs now, then had WAY more fish

[devilmecare]

I can't believe the stupidity of doing this. Rotting rubber. What is wrong with Florida.

[akhan]

So they didn't think the clips would eventually become worn and break?? It's doesn't take a genius!

[richragenj]

Actually no, it's all over YouTube guys. Nothing news is exclusive yall

[alejandrobarrero]

"ground up and recycled" yeah right. You mean burned in a cement plant.

[theamishland]

There’s a number problem in this somewhere.

[jamaicanworld]

Who is the dummy who comes up with this idea ..

[d.g.rohrig]

I’m assuming they thought corral would have taken over the tires before the straps rusted away.

[WoodLox]

Over 40 years ago? So tired! Literally!! 😂

[d.g.rohrig]

To think I learned about this nightmare (as someone from another country) on GTA 5!

[bikashsaha]

I wonder when it will all be cleaned up. I volunteer to help anytime I mean I’m a good swimmer

[fickledworldwelivein]

REALITY VS DESPERATE RELIEF. at its announcement to today 🥺 I still DO NOT believe "tires" rubber specifically...should be in our WATER, OCEANS AND SEAS...😮😢😵‍💫.