Artificial Reefs, The Kraken

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5 жыл бұрын

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

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@SnoozingDino 4 жыл бұрын

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

@bendalton5221 Жыл бұрын

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.

@tebigman65 2 жыл бұрын

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

@OfficialMaxBox 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jorgelionel4241 2 жыл бұрын

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@AusJackal 5 жыл бұрын

Good work guys...

@commercialelectrician133 5 жыл бұрын

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

@ianrobinson8974 4 жыл бұрын

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

@pakurilecz 5 жыл бұрын

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

@tpwdproductionassistant5622 5 жыл бұрын

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/

@tickedoffsheikh8587 3 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelmixon2479 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@robertcalamusso4218 2 жыл бұрын

Nice Red snappers ! Fabulous

@fducedam 3 жыл бұрын

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

@lawrencelewis2592 2 жыл бұрын

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

@wheelmanstan 5 жыл бұрын

awesome, giving back!

@rls303 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax 4 жыл бұрын

BEAUTIFUL!! 🐋🔥🦈🔥🐋🔥🐟

@noahtaylor4142 5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding

@rodneymorales7075 3 жыл бұрын

Was there yesterday great fishing

@noahtaylor4142 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@alejandrohernandez7340 Жыл бұрын

TPW is the best wildlife agency in America!!

@noahtaylor4142 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@alexisflores7770 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! How cool

@ubetucan2747 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jaimeortega4940 4 ай бұрын

That's awesome! Great job!

@evv4164 4 жыл бұрын

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

@angelinecuria2506 4 жыл бұрын

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

@jaimeortega4940 4 ай бұрын

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

@franciscowashington2155 2 жыл бұрын

E lindo o fundo do mar 👍👍👍😎

@ismailtopa3671 3 жыл бұрын

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

@eagleviewhd 2 жыл бұрын

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

@messagegoeshere741 2 ай бұрын

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

@noahtaylor4142 5 жыл бұрын

Cool

@nancyterrero2085 3 жыл бұрын

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

@notthatguy4703 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jerrym1070 3 жыл бұрын

Finally a great story for the world 💖

@Stoffemollan 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine filling up the decks of the boat with those "cement igloos" that the Fish Reef Project uses: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7Z2iNR_lZbKc2w.html

@potgieterl 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mattacitores 2 жыл бұрын

🌊👍🏼🔥

@ASD5NDE Жыл бұрын

The real name of this ship is SCM fedra

@hendysetyawan3877 2 жыл бұрын

real name ship scm tepuy ii

@wilsongarland7893 2 жыл бұрын

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

@noahtaylor4142 5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@josephastier7421 3 жыл бұрын

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

@notthatguy4703 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@williamd1891 3 жыл бұрын

140 ft deep is not shallow.

@maxl3189 2 жыл бұрын

@@williamd1891 his a bit cooked

@joseventura5639 Жыл бұрын

Someone drop the coordinates ! Lol

@truckingwithnose 17 күн бұрын

28°26'38.0"N 94°17'10.1"W

@jonnieinbangkok 2 жыл бұрын

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

@noahtaylor9705 5 жыл бұрын

Sick

@shrimuyopa8117 4 жыл бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@messagegoeshere741 2 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@DsFk80s 2 ай бұрын

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

@juliemunoz2762 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ukaszwalczak1154 2 жыл бұрын

To, save, sea life??

@juliemunoz2762 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@juliemunoz2762 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ukaszwalczak1154 2 жыл бұрын

@@juliemunoz2762 WHAT POINT? THERE IS NO POINT.

@wilsongarland7893 3 жыл бұрын

This is the cause of Sea Rise!

@flypast9725 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@emmanuellorenzodiaz55 7 ай бұрын

all that toxic heavy metals

@GeneralNaga67 3 күн бұрын

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

@brian.7966 4 жыл бұрын

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

@defeatedink0544 3 жыл бұрын

@cats400 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@fenix4553 2 жыл бұрын

You're just speculating, and incorrectly