{"id":43,"date":"2009-10-31T18:11:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-11-01T19:43:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:43:18","slug":"concreteculverts-and-reef-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Concrete\/Culverts and Reef Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon after Spike was placed, in fact it was one month and one day after
\nSpike was place, we placed 10 nm miles off Ponte Vedra, 19 nm SxSE
\nof the Mayport Jetties, in an area knows as Floyds Folly, 750 tons of
\nconcrete\/culverts and Reef balls<\/a>, where two reef balls were memorial
\nreef balls containing the ashes of Philip Busnot and Capt. Bill Newman.<\/p>\n

You have to go back to 2006 when Mandarin High School<\/a>, using molds
\nand donated concrete, began forming what’s knows as reef balls. The
\nreef balls stayed on the front lawn of Mandarin High School for the next
\nthree years.<\/p>\n

Following the same process of acquiring funding, the city returns to the
\nstate, FWC in this case with the paper work requesting a grant. We get
\none and with city fundings and the helps of volunteers, we begin the
\nprocess of locating material, locating transportation from the sites
\nwhere the concrete\/\/culverts are located, video, pictures, loading,
\nunloading, getting the barge, the tug, cranes and personel.<\/p>\n

We do it and all within a one month span of placing Spike.
\nHere is a video of the Pre-Deployment dive made by the
\nJacksonville Reef Research Team as filmed by me, Larry Davis:
\n[xr_video id=”5205926e2eb34fe494930ae60e7637fe” size=”sm”]
\nDivers\u00a0<\/span>in the video are:
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Dana Morton<\/span>(Scientist<\/em>)
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Joe Kistel<\/span>(circular sweep)<\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 John Perkner<\/span> (Capt-Circular sweep<\/em>)
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Larry Davis<\/span>(Video<\/em>)
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Sue Wilcox<\/span>(measuring sediment depth, circular sweep<\/em>)
\n\u00a0\u00a0 Phil Harvil<\/span>(Photo, Water Temp., sediment samples, water samples<\/em>).<\/p>\n

On August 18th, we left Mayport on Bulldog, the tug, pushing a
\nbarge with over 750 tons of concrete. The trip was the exciting
\npart. I’ll tell you about that right now.<\/p>\n

We didn’t leave as early as we left with Spike. We left at around
\n5AM. It was still dark out as we navigate the riverway towards
\nMayport. The trip should take us about 1.5 hours to get to the
\njetties, then another 3 hours to travel 19 miles. It was a beautiful
\nday. The sky was turning red with the light of the rising sun
\nreflecting off the sky. Dolphin were playing, jumping all around us.
\nDolphin are a good omen. The city boat pulls up next to us\u00a0before
\nwe reached\u00a0Mayport and we say our morning greetings and inform
\nthe crew that the time to our\u00a0destination will take approx 3 hours.
\nThey take off ahead of us to locate and mark the placement site.
\nUsing GPS and a bouy to mark the spot.<\/p>\n

Now, it is known that the roughest part of the trip will be at the exit
\nof the jetties to the open ocean. Here the waters from the St. Johns
\nriver meet thee open ocean. The seas get turbid here and the current
\nwill move you one way or the other. The current happen to be heading
\nnorth this AM. Then suddenly, Bam! our starboard cable attaching the
\ntug to the barge snaps. We’re now holding on to this barge carrying
\n750+ tons of concrete and a crane by one steel cable. We’re drifting
\nnorth and the captain begin attempting to control the turn by applying
\nspeed to the port prop. This doesn’t quite work and we are now about to
\nperform one of the largest 360’s between a large ocean marker bouy
\nand the end of the stone jetties.\u00a0 I little harry…\u00a0 Some of us are thinking
\nJacksonvilles newest artificial reef may be right off the jetties if we don’t
\nget this under control. We eventually do and we begin our travels, South
\ntowards Floyds Folly.<\/p>\n

The ride was nice and at 8 knots we figured about 3 hours… until…
\nBam! guess what? The starboard cable snaps again. So here we go again.
\nAnother huge 360 in the middle of the ocean. Shore is only 5 miles away.
\nAlso note the lenth of the barge was a football field. so image that going
\n360’s with a tug attached to the back end.<\/p>\n

Well, someone say, why push, pull the darn barge. So that’s what we did,
\nall the way to the site, 5 hours later! So we pull up on site at around 1pm
\nand begin unloading the concrete\/culverts on one side of the barge,
\nfollowed by the reef balls on the other side of the barge.<\/p>\n

We di dnot have the crowd we had at Spike, but this isn’t as exciting.
\nBesides, Jacksonville first artificial reef in almost 10 years was placed
\nlast month, so what’s the big deal… lol. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Video of the project is in the works all the way to the placement of
\nthe concrete\/culverts and reef balls. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soon after Spike was placed, in fact it was one month and one day after
\nSpike was place, we placed 10 nm miles off Ponte Vedra, 19 nm SxSE
\nof the Mayport Jetties, in an area knows as Floyds Folly, 750 tons of
\nconcrete\/culverts and Reef balls, where two reef balls were memorial
\nreef balls containing the ashes of Philip Busnot and Capt. Bill Newman.
\nYou have to go back to 2006 when Mandarin High School, using molds
\nand donated concrete, began forming what’s knows as reef balls. The
\nreef balls stayed on the front lawn of Mandarin High School for the next
\nthree years.
\nFollowing the same process of acquiring funding, the city returns to the
\nstate, FWC in this case with the paper work requesting a grant. We get
\none and with city fundings and the helps of volunteers, we begin the
\nprocess of locating material, locating transportation from the sites
\nwhere the concrete\/\/culverts are located, video, pictures, loading,
\nunloading, getting the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reefs"],"yoast_head":"\nConcrete\/Culverts and Reef Balls - Divetalking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=43\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Concrete\/Culverts and Reef Balls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=43\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-10-31T22:11:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-11-01T23:43:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"lars2923\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"lars2923\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"lars2923\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e69ad3ca673a5c117fd560ec0f30453c\"},\"headline\":\"Concrete\\\/Culverts and Reef Balls\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-31T22:11:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-11-01T23:43:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43\"},\"wordCount\":776,\"articleSection\":[\"Reefs\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43\",\"name\":\"Concrete\\\/Culverts and Reef Balls - Divetalking\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-31T22:11:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-11-01T23:43:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e69ad3ca673a5c117fd560ec0f30453c\"},\"description\":\"Divetalking\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=43#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Concrete\\\/Culverts and Reef Balls\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Divetalking\",\"description\":\"The best thing to do during your surface interval\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e69ad3ca673a5c117fd560ec0f30453c\",\"name\":\"lars2923\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/09f3fe193ad4eef587ee9f5acb35a3b4499d0753ec1d3da07bd28646c1705a2c?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/09f3fe193ad4eef587ee9f5acb35a3b4499d0753ec1d3da07bd28646c1705a2c?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/09f3fe193ad4eef587ee9f5acb35a3b4499d0753ec1d3da07bd28646c1705a2c?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"lars2923\"},\"description\":\"PADI MSDT - I've been a diver for over 33 years. 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