anonym MasterMay 26th, 2009 - 16:42:15

i hope i am not late in providing this tip.

i feel that the man made reef will be more productive
if the site selected has volcanic residue, or the ship
be planted with lava rocks in different but specific areas
of the ship, so that as the reefs evolve, scientists can study
those specific areas and compare with other areas that were not
planted with lava rocks.

lava rich ocean bed, or lava rocks to be placed on ship is one suggestion. Are there any other suggestions? Any other organic material? or any ideas
what should be on the ship when it goes down to the ocean floor.

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fStop FitzgeraldMay 27th, 2009 - 17:19:41

Apparently your techie training didn't include biology. This will not be a coral reef, unless somehow saltwater transmutes inorganic steel into organic coral organisms. This will be a steel, not coral, reef.

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ickthusMay 28th, 2009 - 00:29:44

You don't dive much do you? It will be a living organic reef in just a few years. I do believe they know well how to repair a reef with material that promotes marine growth. In all my years of working underwater, I have never seen the promotion of marine growth a goal unless it was to repair damaged reef. If you were to promote growth on a steel hull shipwreck, I would pump a little concrete grout down a flex tube. It would stick and set up underwater in use a few hours ( about like flocking a christmass tree). Cheap, ez to do and any diver could do the work. But you would speed up the corrosion of the steel hull and the collapse of the wreck its self. What do you want a shipwreck or a coral reef? You want a reef put down concrete bridge rubble.

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