Artificial reef: a man-made marine habitat constructed for the purpose of improving fisheries.
Now it's an artificial reef, one that Scuba Diving magazine says is a must for divers.
Rocks have been used for the artificial reef as lobsters like to live in stony crevices.
Dr Black cannot predict how many days of good surf each year an artificial reef will permit.
The first lobsters are set to be released at an artificial reef off the Dorset coast during the summer.
The Caymans applied to the U.S. government to receive a decommissioned ship to use as an artificial reef, a process that was open for the first time to international applicants.
Sunk just off Key West , an island in the Straits of Florida, in 2009, the Vandenberg is the second-largest artificial reef in the world, attracting a diverse range of marine animals and plant life.
Liquidators for the New Zealand-based company which built Europe's only artificial surf reef are yet to locate its director.
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The artificial surf reef off the Dorset coast at Boscombe, which has been shut due to safety concerns, is thought to have been damaged by a boat propeller.
The idea of inserting an artificial surfing reef has emerged during talks in the last two years on renewing Borth's coastal defences which are approaching the end of their effective life.
The group also has long-term plans to sink two warships near Ringstead Bay as an artificial diving reef, similar to the one off Whitsand Bay in Plymouth where HMS Scylla was sunk in 2004.
To explore the potential for using the reef as part of the coast protection, the council has asked New Zealand-based consultants, Artificial Surfing Reefs Ltd (ASR) to carry out the study.
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