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Thanks for your post chris great job The Kittna is down off corpus Close in Does anybody dive it ? The Galveston ship will be about 65 miles out but the seabed will be only 140 ft down plus there are reef sites of rigs close to it Old divers used to dive the bucceeneer rigs which are now...

The contract has been awarded per tpwd Ship is currently being cleaned Thanks Dale Shively and the coastal fisheries Team

chamber of commerce photos seth How many times have you gone to a dive center after a poor visibility dive and heard You should have been here last week?

Mr Carberry is the man to ask since there are many factors involved in creating a habitat. Creating habitat for lobsters is way different they creating habitat for varying species of fish. Its like creating a hotel for Gambling or just for lodgeing

Seth and Dr Mac Great Posts Interesting to see the growth on the rigs since they were placed at the South Padre underwater park. My team videoed the rigs the day after they were placed Last time I was There the growth on the navy barge was building on the railings. While this site isn't...

Great shots seth, Did you get over to the Navy Barge at the SPI site or the Tug CoryAnn next to the rig? FYI, The rigs off mansfield were placed in the 90's the liberty ships were placed in the 70's Love the photos, If you get a chance send them to Senator Lucio's office in Brownsville he...

She went down in 77 feet of water wheel house at 42. Great Job Sea Ledford, Dale Shively and Brooke Shipley-Lozano. Thanks Walter Marine and The SEA Assoctiation. Waiting for sea ledfords post of his inspection and check out dive Thanks for a job well done Next stop Offshore Galveston

Lots do suggest you contact Randy or Mike at Sport Divers in Webster

great review, photo's were well done , thanks for sharing the ecosystem provided by an artificial reef.

For Tec Divers The Topper Three would be great, Close to that is TPWD site of HI492 These are deep dives in open gulf Capt Randy at Sport Divers has been on the topper 111 many times as I have.. Also near the ocean express, is another Deck Chevron 712 Another TPWD Site Artificial Reef Site...

A 19 would be a great addition to the program unfortunately TPWD is running into roadblocks.A 20 was put down 20 years ago close enough for a cluster with A19 platforms in mind. However new lawyers and federal bureaucracy continues.I have been waiting for them to come up with the old excuse that...

For those reading this thread, Texas Artificial reef program made a huge effort to obtain the oriskany, When the navy chose Florida, efforts and proposals were also made to obtain the Forrestal or similar class carrier. Due to the design and other issues The navy will not allow these ships to...

Sooner wink, the only way this happens is there is enough public interest in the project. This proposal is to obtain about 2 million from the BP Gulf restoration funds Obviously you can't make the meetings but you can comment Til 2/19/14 on NOAA Gulf Spill Restoration Get everyone in your...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife will hold public hearings on 5 proposed reefing projects. One of which will be a proposed ship reef off galveston near High Island Block HI 424. 3 meetings Port Arthur Jan 21, Galveston at Texas A&M, Jan 22, and Corpus Christi Jan 23. Those individuals who have...

Agree with knoticol, well said, I have noticed that many senior "snowbirds" are taking advantage of getting back into diving on the Spiegal Grove, Vandenburg, Oriskany and the Texas Clipper.

Interesting thread, DrBill and I seem to be on the same page.He like me predate the Scientific diver certification. It seems the universities started the "scientific Diver certification" for many reason's but based on the dialog it was for liability issues. I have been involved with studies...

I have never understood the lack of real concern on the part of the environmental movement about the habitat created by the rigs. As texas and la divers we have actually seen the beautiful habitat's created by these structures. The other never mentioned benefit is what these structures have...

Your poll only covers part of the gulf coast. Since I live in texas I do extensive gulf diving from vera cruz over to naples. I have made many trips over the years to Destin, Pennsacola, and Panama city, especially with my sponsored dive trips and student's, and for the most part everyone...

In the 70's many liberty ships were sunk as artificial reefs, In texas many divers dived this vessel's and came back and said they dove the liberty ships. When I became chairman, we funded a study by Archeologist Barto Arnold to obtain each vessel's history, When TPWD published his history, it...

well said reefhound, divers should take advantage of chum club trips, The Laredo club also sponsors trip's and hopefully the north texas group is organizing some also. It took an act of the legislator's (rigs to Reefs SB5 )1989, plus over thirteen years, plus 4 million to get the clipper down...