Two retired aircraft that once flew for the Maldives’ first national airline are getting a second…
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Once the fastest US ocean liner that carried presidents and celebrities across the Atlantic, SS United States is set to become the world’s largest artificial reef
The SS United States, a 990-foot ocean liner that carried presidents, dignitaries and celebrities across the…
In 2014, a ship carrying 32 million illegal cigarettes was sunk off Ireland; 12 years later, authorities observed it has been colonised by barnacles, sponges, sea squirts and fish
No matter the oceans it crosses, a ship always finds a home at sea. One such…
A 300-foot Maldives beach was shrinking slowly; then MIT researchers built an artificial reef that helped the shoreline grow by 90 feet and double in size
A 300-foot beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was slowly eroding away. In order…
In 2015, Canada sank a 113-metre retired warship off British Columbia; five years later, monitoring had recorded more than 170 marine species on the wreck
A lingcod guards its egg mass on the Annapolis (Image Credit: Michel Joseph via Artificial Reef…
In 1989, UK researchers turned 50 tonnes of coal-fired power station waste into an underwater reef; lobsters and crabs arrived within 3 weeks
Representative Image (AI-generated) What happens when waste from a coal-fired power station is placed beneath the…