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Where are those Florida Artificial Reefs?
Looking for a place to dive or to fish? Here is the FWC link to Florida’s artificial reefs. … Read entire article »
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Pensacola Beach Oil Spill Update
Read it right from Pensacola. Read What’s Happening in Pensacola as it relates to the BP Oil Spill. Larry … Read entire article »
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Information for Rehabilitators and Volunteering BP Oil Spill
Information for Rehabilitators and Volunteering The FWC is working with NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard and taking direction in Florida from the lead response agency, the Department of Environmental Protection, regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is overseeing the wildlife rehabilitation response along the Gulf coast, but the FWC is receiving many questions about how people can help wildlife that may become oiled. Anyone interested in efforts to rehabilitate oiled wildlife may register online at www.DeepwaterHorizonResponse.com or call 866-448-5816. To report oiled wildlife, call 866-557-1401. … Read entire article »
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Florida Update information of BP Oil Spill
Fishing advisory issued for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walto counties Shoreline fishing license is free to residents, beginning July 1 If you plan to volunteer for the clean-up you will need to contact the volunteer hotline phone numbers: ttp://www.myfwc.com/OilSpill/index.htm. Daily updates on Pensacola Beach can be found on their webpage: http://www.visitpensacolabeach.com/ (Notice the link to sign up for daily oil spill updates from Escambia County). … Read entire article »
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
I am interested in reading posts on divetalking.com from folks living in the areas affected and currently experiencing the BP Oil Spill. Please update this site with your experiences and observations of any areas touched by oil. Watch Live Video of the BP Oil Catastrophe. … Read entire article »
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Tritonshall
divetalking and tritonshall have traded links. Visit tritonshall for articles related to the field of diving and all things related. … Read entire article »
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Solicite for Blackbeard as Jacksonvilles Newest 2010 Artificial Reef
I see the Jacksonville Offshore Fishing Club soliciting to have Blackbeard placed offshore Jacksonville, Florida as an artificial reef. Now that the cat is out. This is one of our next hopefulls. About one month ago, a team went to visit Blackbeard. I took video and pictures, while others surveyed the vessel. She’s in really great shape considering her age. Built back in the latter 1950’s, she served Mayport as a ferry to suttle motoriized vessles from one side of the St. Johns to the other. Today she sits and has been sitting for a number of years at the Green Cove docks along the intercoastal. Here is a post from a member of the Jacksonville Offshore Fishing Club, JOSFC. http://www.firstcoastangler.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/topic/213/gonew/1.html We need your support and donations. You may visit www.TISIRI.org for more … Read entire article »
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Artificial Reef Reference Guides
The first three documents are the documents mentioned by Jon Dodrill at the Artificial Reef Summit on Cocoa Beach in January 2010. The last is thrown in because I like the lesson guides and other things.. National Artificial Reef Plan: Guidance for Siting, constructing, development, and assessment of artificial reefs National Guidance: Best Management Practices for preparing vessels intended to create artificial reefs Coastal Artificial Reef Planning Guide Other resource that I like are: National Geographic Lession Guides Artificial Reef Evaluation: with Application to Natural Marine Habitats May be purchased at Amazon.com Artificial Reefs , Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, FWC Saltwater Habitat Enhancement Artificial Reef Monitoring in Florida Coastal Counties, William Seaman … Read entire article »
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Live Feed BP Oil Gushing
Live Webcam of Riser Flow BP continues its work to collect oil by the riser insertion tube tool (RITT) containment system. Once on the drillship Discoverer Enterprise, the oil is then being stored and gas is being flared. Watch Live Video of the BP Oil Catastrophe. Check out other BP Videos of the event. … Read entire article »
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Interested in diving related field work?
If you live in or near the NE corner of Florida and you are or have been interested in the field or research, oceanography, data collection, artificial reefs, reef monitoring and more, there are a couple of groups you may be interested in checking out. First there is the Jacksonville Reef Research Team, JRRT. Members of the team who have passed the course may dive offshore to collect data, monitoring the artificial reefs that have been placed offshore Jacksonville. Other duties performed by JRRT is Pre-Deployment and post-deployment surveys. Throughout the year, JRRT members meet at least once a month and during the Spring, Summer and Fall months, dive offshore Jacksonville as much as possible. JRRT web site may be found at jaxrrt.org or by clicking here > JRRT Another organization … Read entire article »
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BP Oil Spill Deep Water Horizons Donations Please
Please give until it hurts. Every dollar helps. All proceeds will be provided to Deep Water Horizons. See post on Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Catastrophe Please donate what you can. Every dollar helps! … Read entire article »
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Gulf of Mexico BP Oil catastrophe
Dear REEF Members, The Gulf Oil Spill is highly likely to have lasting impacts on wildlife, ecosystems, and people – both locally in the Gulf, as well as regionally in the greater Florida area and possibly throughout the Caribbean. Like you, all of us at REEF have been closely following the news about this unfortunate disaster. While REEF is not directly involved in the response to the oil spill, we are poised to provide baseline data on fish populations in the affected regions if needed. Thanks to the efforts of REEF volunteers, approximately 5,600 fish population surveys have been conducted in the Gulf of Mexico since 1994. This includes over 1,500 surveys along the west coast of Florida, 3,500 surveys in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, and another 600 in … Read entire article »
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Artificial Reef Evaluation Handbook
The source of the above is: Source … Read entire article »
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2010 Florida Artificial Reef Summit
2010 Florida Artificial Reef Summit January 21-23, 2010 Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront More info at 2010 Summit Web Page Call for Papers and Poster Exhibits (Due November 15) Contributed papers are being solicited for the following topics: Fisheries management and Artificial Reefs; Lessons Learned and Adaptive Management Strategies; and, Citizen Involvement in Monitoring and Reef Development. Posters will be accepted on a variety of general artificial reef-related topics. Why attend? Meet and discuss current issues, hear the latest research, and share new ideas for future projects with other members of Florida’s artificial reef community. Who will attend? Scientists, artificial reef program managers, fishery and natural resource managers, volunteer research diver organizations, and artificial reef citizen constituency organizations. Topics Addressed Synopsis of the 2007 FWC Artificial Reef Science Colloquium and the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Artificial Habitats, marine fisheries … Read entire article »
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The City of Jacksonville, Florida has cleared me
In an email received November 3, 2009 Subject: Background result for LAWRENCE DAVIS LAWRENCE DAVIS has completed his background screening and is cleared to volunteer Environmental Quality Division. … Read entire article »
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