Editorial

Staff · Issue 69, Nov/Dec 2012 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: GoPro 2, GoPro 3

Editorial Artificial Reefs I apologise that this is a little off topic as it is about the marine environment rather than photography but I think it raises several interesting points. Whilst the rest of the world sinks ships on a seeming regular basis for divers to visit and create tourist dollars, we in the UK have only sunk one, HMS Scylla, and that was 8 years ago. Since then she has attracted a huge number of divers and played host to an amazing carpet of marine life. Attempts have been made to sink other ships but, as yet, nothing has happened and those involved in the process blame bureaucracy and funding difficulties as the main hurdles. Recently I heard about an artificial reef scheme in Torbay, southwest England, which was a little different in that the plan was to create a reef of 1000 concrete balls, each 6ft wide, 5ft tall and weighing up to 2.7 tonnes. The total cost was esti…