Artificial Reefs, The Kraken

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  • Опубликовано: 7 апр 2019
  • Back to the Kraken:
    In early 2017, Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Artificial Reef Program created a new underwater oasis for fish and fishermen with a 371-foot cargo ship called The Kraken. Just months after sending the Kraken to the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, biologists return to investigate one of the Texas Gulf Coast’s largest artificial reefs.
    Find out more at
    tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/wate...
    Additional photography courtesy of:
    Wilson Barbee
    Jake Emmert
    Chris Ledford
    Jacob Morales
    Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
    NOAA Fisheries

Комментарии • 107

  • @SnoozingDino
    @SnoozingDino 4 года назад +81

    Sink a ship in the middle of oceanic nowhere, and aquatic life will be like "it's free real estate".

  • @tebigman65
    @tebigman65 2 года назад +18

    This is a wonderful program and well organized too! The world needs more conservation for our wildlife and habitat. Thanks for help the ocean a better place. Tom

  • @bendalton5221
    @bendalton5221 Год назад +7

    goes back to a simple truth - you can't stop nature. Truly amazing that all of that takes place so quickly. And it's a great alternative for just junking and scrapping an old ship, gives an old lady a great purpose and cause. Makes me definitely want to take up scuba diving again.

  • @AusJackal
    @AusJackal 5 лет назад +18

    Good work guys...

  • @OfficialMaxBox
    @OfficialMaxBox 3 года назад +16

    Astounding how much life there was after less than a year.

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  • @commercialelectrician133
    @commercialelectrician133 5 лет назад +16

    always a great video you don't even have to wait till the end to give a thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @tickedoffsheikh8587
    @tickedoffsheikh8587 3 года назад +7

    Love your work. Needs this in Guyana 🇬🇾 too. Keep up the great work.

  • @robertcalamusso4218
    @robertcalamusso4218 2 года назад +3

    Nice Red snappers !
    Fabulous

  • @ianrobinson8974
    @ianrobinson8974 4 года назад +11

    Wonderful! First world peoples should facilitate this sort of facility for third world countries (eg Philippines) who rely on fish to survive.

  • @lawrencelewis2592
    @lawrencelewis2592 2 года назад +3

    Red Snapper is some good eating! Texas, you've done a great job!

  • @michaelmixon2479
    @michaelmixon2479 2 года назад +4

    I would rather see the old ships be used in this manner than scrapped. Supporting our oceans infrastructure is critical to the planet and many species.

  • @rls303
    @rls303 5 лет назад +7

    Thanks

  • @wheelmanstan
    @wheelmanstan 5 лет назад +5

    awesome, giving back!

  • @alejandrohernandez7340
    @alejandrohernandez7340 Год назад +1

    TPW is the best wildlife agency in America!!

  • @fducedam
    @fducedam 3 года назад +7

    Wish California Department of Fish and Wildlife take notice and do something better than monitoring the decline of fish population.

  • @pakurilecz
    @pakurilecz 5 лет назад +22

    How many artificial reefs has Texas established. Is there a map that shows the locations for the various artificial reefs

    • @tpwdproductionassistant5622
      @tpwdproductionassistant5622 5 лет назад +7

      I'm not sure of the exact number but there is an interactive map you can check out of all the sites at: tpwd.texas.gov/gis/ris/artificialreefs/

  • @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax
    @ToxicVaccines_HivHoax 4 года назад +4

    BEAUTIFUL!! 🐋🔥🦈🔥🐋🔥🐟

  • @rodneymorales7075
    @rodneymorales7075 3 года назад +2

    Was there yesterday great fishing

  • @noahtaylor4142
    @noahtaylor4142 5 лет назад +4

    Beautiful

  • @noahtaylor4142
    @noahtaylor4142 5 лет назад +2

    Outstanding

  • @alexisflores7770
    @alexisflores7770 2 года назад +1

    This is amazing! How cool

  • @noahtaylor4142
    @noahtaylor4142 5 лет назад +4

    Amazing

  • @jaimeortega4940
    @jaimeortega4940 4 месяца назад

    That's awesome! Great job!

  • @evv4164
    @evv4164 4 года назад +5

    RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

  • @angelinecuria2506
    @angelinecuria2506 4 года назад +3

    Amazing!! I do wish if I why ti college I did go to college I so Would of studied marine biologist

  • @jaimeortega4940
    @jaimeortega4940 4 месяца назад

    So that's where the "Kraken" was released.

  • @ubetucan2747
    @ubetucan2747 2 года назад +1

    Great result, KUTGW. Did you get your Go-Pro back?

  • @jerrym1070
    @jerrym1070 3 года назад +1

    Finally a great story for the world 💖

  • @franciscowashington2155
    @franciscowashington2155 2 года назад +1

    E lindo o fundo do mar 👍👍👍😎

  • @nancyterrero2085
    @nancyterrero2085 3 года назад +3

    U.S create artificial reef with old subway cars have been dumped

  • @noahtaylor4142
    @noahtaylor4142 5 лет назад +2

    Cool

  • @notthatguy4703
    @notthatguy4703 3 года назад +6

    Wow! Humans doing something to not just repair damage to ecosystems, but actually enhance them??? Crazy good vibes from this video

  • @ismailtopa3671
    @ismailtopa3671 3 года назад +1

    It's cheaper and better controlled to sell the ship for scrap metal and construct shapes with far better longevity and productivity

    • @eagleviewhd
      @eagleviewhd 2 года назад +1

      Maybe true, but much more fun to dive on a shipwreck, than some manmade objects!

    • @messagegoeshere741
      @messagegoeshere741 3 месяца назад

      Today, the Florida coral reef has reduced to only 2 - 5% of what it was in the last 30 years. Projects like this are important

  • @potgieterl
    @potgieterl 2 года назад +1

    Behold the future, great work money well spent. More?

  • @mattacitores
    @mattacitores 2 года назад

    🌊👍🏼🔥

  • @noahtaylor4142
    @noahtaylor4142 5 лет назад +2

    Nice

  • @Stoffemollan
    @Stoffemollan 2 года назад +1

    Imagine filling up the decks of the boat with those "cement igloos" that the Fish Reef Project uses: ruclips.net/video/mPFUqN00fC8/видео.html

  • @wilsongarland7893
    @wilsongarland7893 2 года назад +1

    When you have no defense go nasty. Why not prove me wrong, O you can't can you?

  • @ASD5NDE
    @ASD5NDE Год назад

    The real name of this ship is SCM fedra

  • @hendysetyawan3877
    @hendysetyawan3877 2 года назад +1

    real name ship scm tepuy ii

  • @noahtaylor9705
    @noahtaylor9705 5 лет назад +2

    Sick

  • @josephastier7421
    @josephastier7421 3 года назад +3

    And by sinking it in such shallow water, other vessels will inevitably add themselves to the new reef over time.

  • @jonnieinbangkok
    @jonnieinbangkok 2 года назад +2

    Here's an idea...keep commercial fisherman off BOTH the reefs and the Kraken!

  • @joseventura5639
    @joseventura5639 Год назад

    Someone drop the coordinates ! Lol

  • @shrimuyopa8117
    @shrimuyopa8117 4 года назад +3

    Of course there is tons of Red Snapper it is an OVER PROTECTED FISH. That's right I said OVER not under. The state of Texas only allows anglers to keep Red Snapper ONE week out of the entire year. They are possibly the most plentiful deep water fish that people want to eat. I would like it if Texas moved Snapper into a few different weeks in a year and maybe decreased the season of other fish and then rotated that to build other populations and give anglers the fish they want.

  • @DsFk80s
    @DsFk80s 3 месяца назад

    I see this as littering the ocean As if thousands of sunken world war ships and ocean liners just wasn't enough.

    • @messagegoeshere741
      @messagegoeshere741 3 месяца назад

      Really? After seeing all the life on that ship? Our oceans are really struggling right now. They need all the help they can get. And yes. This ship is helping. Look up older projects like this. They're homes to hundreds of ocean creatures.

    • @DsFk80s
      @DsFk80s 2 месяца назад

      @@messagegoeshere741 Yeah they sank ships for ocean life while straining the mining industries on shore and puting down more forest. That makes sense.

    • @DsFk80s
      @DsFk80s 2 месяца назад

      @@messagegoeshere741 Yeah they sank ships for ocean life while straining the mining industries on shore and puting down more forest. That makes sense.

  • @juliemunoz2762
    @juliemunoz2762 2 года назад +2

    considering our need for steel why are we sinking ships instead or recycling them.

    • @ukaszwalczak1154
      @ukaszwalczak1154 2 года назад +1

      To, save, sea life??

    • @juliemunoz2762
      @juliemunoz2762 2 года назад +1

      @@ukaszwalczak1154 there’s other materials that are more suitable for that, but I suppose. Of course it’s not going to make a difference if we don’t stop the fleet of 6500 Chinese boats from drag netting everything from all the fisheries in the ocean 365 days a year.

    • @ukaszwalczak1154
      @ukaszwalczak1154 2 года назад +1

      @@juliemunoz2762 EVERY material is suitable for that as long as it's not stained with anything, or contains harmful chemicals, etc.

    • @juliemunoz2762
      @juliemunoz2762 2 года назад +1

      @@ukaszwalczak1154 you’re missing the point. as you were.

    • @ukaszwalczak1154
      @ukaszwalczak1154 2 года назад +1

      @@juliemunoz2762 WHAT POINT? THERE IS NO POINT.

  • @wilsongarland7893
    @wilsongarland7893 3 года назад +2

    This is the cause of Sea Rise!

    • @flypast9725
      @flypast9725 3 года назад +5

      Are you commenting the same thing on every artificial reef video or something?I’ve seen your comment about 10 times now........ and by the way, it isn’t!

    • @wilsongarland7893
      @wilsongarland7893 3 года назад

      @@flypast9725 OK then fill you kitchen sink to the very top, take all your dishes and place them into the sink and tell me what happens!

    • @flypast9725
      @flypast9725 3 года назад +4

      @@wilsongarland7893 no no no no, it’s definitely not because of the polar ice caps melting or anything nooooooooo that would be ludicrous! The reason the pots and pans displace so much water is because the ratio of water to pots in a sink is so great, do the same thing with the ocean and a few small ships and there will be no affect whatsoever.

    • @wilsongarland7893
      @wilsongarland7893 3 года назад +1

      @@flypast9725 You keep thinking that until you are treading water! You proved my point! For as long as humans have taken to the sea, there have been shipwrecks. UNESCO estimates that 3 million sunken ships litter ocean bottoms worldwide, many of which date back thousands of years.

    • @flypast9725
      @flypast9725 3 года назад +4

      @@wilsongarland7893 And you my friend have proven my point, ships in the sea will rot and break down into nothing over thousands of years, leaving nothing but reefs, making your point ill founded.

  • @brian.7966
    @brian.7966 4 года назад +4

    they call this an artificial reef I call it lets dump out rubbish in the sea.

    • @defeatedink0544
      @defeatedink0544 3 года назад +7

      No

    • @cats400
      @cats400 3 года назад +2

      How is it rubbish? The state had to pay more than what the ship breaking companies in the third world would've paid in order to sink it. Plus, the sate had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove all of the hazardous waste before it could be sank.

    • @bigbranemigranel7685
      @bigbranemigranel7685 3 года назад +2

      EPA inspecting the ship for toxic materials and oils: allow us to introduce ourselves

    • @fenix4553
      @fenix4553 2 года назад +1

      You're just speculating, and incorrectly

  • @emmanuellorenzodiaz55
    @emmanuellorenzodiaz55 8 месяцев назад

    all that toxic heavy metals

    • @GeneralNaga67
      @GeneralNaga67 10 дней назад

      Iron and steel aren’t toxic. Nor a heavy metal

  • @tonyfrench1081
    @tonyfrench1081 4 месяца назад

    Alison Baldwin needs speech therapy

  • @ahliehsusjsjsjsj8124
    @ahliehsusjsjsjsj8124 5 лет назад +3

    Amazing

  • @noahtaylor4142
    @noahtaylor4142 5 лет назад +2

    Sick