{"id":2263,"date":"2010-10-15T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2010-10-27T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:26:04","slug":"a-concrete-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"A Concrete Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TISIRI Team once again is out looking at material for it&#8217;s candidacy as an artificial reef. We are contacted by Carl Blow,who informs us there is a concrete vessel parked outside his door. It didn&#8217;t take long for the team to assemble, head to St. Augustine, Fl. and catch a skif over to this vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures from our visit 14 Oct. 2010. We figured we were driving by this vessel on our way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=2260\" target=\"_self\">Whitney Labs<\/a>,\u00a0so we stopped.<\/p>\n<p>As Carl Blow, St. Johns County Waterways Commissioner, Joe Kistel, Larry Davis, Ed Ed Kalakauskis, with TISIRI approach the boat.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2267\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?attachment_id=2267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1102_A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the bow, I snap this shot of Carl Blow and Joe Kistel discussing the opportunity of this vessel as an artificial reef of the St. Augustine, florida coast line.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2272\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?attachment_id=2272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1117_A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carl Blow and Joe Kistel in deep thought on the subject of vessel preparation.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2273\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?attachment_id=2273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1141_A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TISIRI Team once again is out looking at material for it&#8217;s candidacy as an artificial reef. We are contacted by Carl Blow,who informs us there is a concrete vessel parked outside his door. It didn&#8217;t take long for the team to assemble, head to St. Augustine, Fl. and catch a skif over to this vessel.<br \/>\nHere are some pictures from our visit 14 Oct. 2010. We figured we were driving by this vessel on our way to Whitney Labs,\u00a0so we stopped.<br \/>\nAs Carl Blow, St. Johns County Waterways Commissioner, Joe Kistel, Larry Davis, Ed Ed Kalakauskis, with TISIRI approach the boat.<\/p>\n<p>From the bow, I snap this shot of Carl Blow and Joe Kistel discussing the opportunity of this vessel as an artificial reef of the St. Augustine, florida coast line.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Blow and Joe Kistel in deep thought on the subject of vessel preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,42,23,9,32,31,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-reefs","category-boats","category-events","category-photography","category-reference","category-report","category-wrecks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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