by Mikkel Pitzner | Jul 20, 2013 | Osborne Tire Reef
Project Baseline is glad to inform that the first monitoring station was installed on the Osborne Reef on July 14, 2013. The first station is actually what will be referred to Station 8 on the Osborne Reef as this refers to the Broward County map of the Reef...
by Mikkel Pitzner | Jun 27, 2013 | Osborne Tire Reef
As promised in our post from June 20 2013, here come some more videos from our survey dives from the Osborne Reef. On June 15 2013 we made a reconnaissance dive on the Osborne Reef following the Southern, Eastern and Northern perimeter , finishing with an extra 5...
by Mikkel Pitzner | Jun 24, 2013 | Erojacks, Osborne Tire Reef
7000 ft off Sunrise Boulevard and 3.8 miles North of Port Everglades at LAT 26°08.320 N and 80°04.830 W DGPS is a 50′ circle of Erojacks, 4 ft high each – at a depth of 65′ in the sand and 58-60′ on top of the Erojacks. The circle of Erojacks at the Osborne Reef is...
by Mikkel Pitzner | May 31, 2013 | Osborne Tire Reef
The idea of using discarded tires to build man-made reefs in order to attract sea life and coral growth has been tried many different places all over the world. But it appears that all such projects eventually have failed miserably – some even disastrously. The image...
by Mikkel Pitzner | May 29, 2013 | Osborne Tire Reef
The situation of the migrating tires off the Osborne Tire Reef is much worse than at first anticipated. The full length video can be viewed here. As much of the relevant images have been included in the video, so as to be useful to a third party viewer who wish to...
by Mikkel Pitzner | May 21, 2013 | Osborne Tire Reef
Saturday May 18th, 4 Global Underwater Explorer divers set out to do a reconnaissance dive on the Osborne Tire Reef. Robert Carmichael, Paolo Passalacqua and Mikkel Pitzner were carrying out the dive while Ted Cole would maneuver the boat and and follow the divers...
