Build an Artificial Reef

Step 3 Move Materials to Site

Move your materials to your building site.  We chose a clean patch of ocean floor and dropped the cinder blocks one by one.  Then we built the Reef structures by moving the blocks from the pile to the building site. 

Comments

[kibukun]

Oh sure toss them in and scare the fish off why don't ya?

[condofish]

You'd eat your words if you dove down with us and saw all the fish and the new growth since we "tossed" those bricks in. Pura Vida

[kibukun]

I know I was just going to suggest a small crane or scuba vehicle to hoist them in. You might get the fish to move in earlier. Also it's good if you're setting it down in a tight spot where you can't toss them in or they'll roll/ slide of the slope you're setting it on. I believe fish mostly like cliff sides (underwater cliffs of course) don't they?

[condofish]

We have 12 structures built and not enough money for a crane or even where to find one around here. The project is not on a slope and so far so good. Thanks

[kibukun]

I'm sorry, you didn't get what I meant... I mean like a small winch that you can build on the boat. The Instructable way!

[condofish]

Sure you could, but then you'll have to move all the blocks along the sea floor during construction which might defeat the purpose of being so careful in the original drop. Plus, they don't drop that fast once they're in the water anyway. Back to the original point of scaring away the fish....do you think is would be better to put all of the block down there using a more time intensive winch process, or all at once over a period of only 10-15min.

[kibukun]

Well, actually if you use a double winch routine you can get all or half the blocks down there all at the same time. Cutting the time from an hour of hand moving them to just lowering all these blocks in half the time. I think you also might be able to lower it already built. Making less time. I'd propose a catamaran double winch setup lowering a plywood platform that you can lower down the blocks with.

[condofish]

Not trying to be difficult, but I don't see the advantage over just dropping them in on a bare seafloor?

[kibukun]

just suggesting a more quicker way in case you'd ever need it.