Bay County deployed the last set of artificial reefs on Wednesday. 30 more Bay County artificial reefs are now sitting on the ...

The reefs are made of concrete with embedded limestone, to resemble the natural limestone found on the sea floor.

The US National Park Service announced the identification of a new species of ancient shark, Clavusodens mcginnisi, ...

This process converts the reef into hard, dense limestone, a material frequently used as building material. Corals which only formed in the past 100,000 years are quickly altered. Although the ...

“What this allows is the artificial reef to mimic some of those limestone ledges and some of that hard bottom sub straight we have naturally,” said Scott Jackson, University of Florida’s ...

SCOTT JACKSON: Artificial reefs are manmade materials that we place in the ocean to create hard substrate. They mimic some of the natural things that we find, like a Northwest Florida limestone, but ...