Fort Pickens Jetty

[JJHACK]

Surprising situation here. The entire rock field or jetty between fishing pier and steps is gone. Not a single visible boulder, rock, rubble, or artifact remains visible. It’s simply a sand field now.

Seems almost impossible that an entire structure of rock could vanish under the sand like that.

Although conditions were not frequently great, the location had spectacular life including many octopus, sea horse, bat fish etc.

Currents are tricky at times but manageable with a bit of experience at reading the tide charts.

No more rock reef exists there! Does anybody know if this has happened before? Has it ever been buried like this and come back again?

 

[ReefHound]

Wow, I haven't been since covid but I dived there about 50 dives over the previous 10 years and there was always a rock field. They were mostly only 12-24 inches high so I can see it getting covered. I've seen things much higher get covered in other places. In all my diving there I never noticed sand building up or declining. I wonder if there was some new development that changed patterns, like dredging the channel or building new piers?