Jose CuervoLiquid Lounge
WKAT 1360 AM
Saturday
4:30 to 4:35 PM
An Ocean Realm Media Production

Underwater News & Views

EcoRadio
I'd like to expand Liquid Lounge from a 5 minute segment during Caribbean Riddims every Saturday, to a one hour talk show with an environmentally-oriented format on Thursday, from 5 PM to 6 PM on WKAT 1360AM in Miami.

The show will be streamed on the internet. The content will focus on the ocean and follow the progress of the International Year of the Reef promotion. It will have specific segments and eco-oriented music.

It will promote the Coral Reef Symposium and a conference on artificial reef design I'm working on for May 5, 2008 at Nikki Beach.


5 January 2008 edition of Liquid Lounge.

Sponsors are needed. 13 weeks for $4500. 26 weeks for $6500. As Monty Hall used to say, 'let's make a deal!'

I believe it's important that we talk about the waterside of Florida and the Caribbean. How about you?

Ken English

Miami Beach Wreck Trek to be first
'Circle of Life' Artificial Reef Site
Some of the most popular shallow-water dive sites are a collection of material spanning several hundred yards of sandy ocean bottom, approximately three miles east of Miami Beach. The Anchorage site began with the placement of the Shamrock in 1985. The 120' ship sits in 40' of water. As material became available in the 80s and 90s, the area became popular because a diver could swim to several sites on the same tank of air. A problem that existed was that divers could not see the next site because visibility was in the 50' range.

In the late 80s, a local diver by the name of Rick Smith, decided to link the sites by pounding a series of rebar into the sand. The trail idea worked and the area became known as the Wreck Trek.

Today, a pair of U.S. army tanks (section 7 on the map) mark the southern end of the Wreck Trek. They were deployed in 1994. Links to video clips and images are on the left.

It is from this point that the 'circles of life' will be used to connect the tanks, and subsequent material like the section of the old radio MAMBI tower, beginning in February 2008.
coastal protection reefReefbuilders International To Connect
Dive Sites with 'Circles of Life'
 Gary Levine's new company - Reef Builders International - is discussing a plan with Miami-Dade County's DERM to connect several of the ships in the Key Biscayne Special Management Zone with a series of concrete and coral rock structures that resemble a stack of wheels on their side.

Manufactured by an Alabama-based company called Reefmakers, the 'circles of life' are fitted on a pipe that is secured into the bedrock. Structures will be of varying height, spaced approximately 50 feet apart.

The initial goal is to link ships in 80 to 100 feet of water to assist divers in locating the structures, as well as provide some protection to the hull from the movement of the ocean.