Artificial Reefs, The Kraken

Back to the Kraken:
In early 2017, Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Artificial Reef Program created a new underwater oasis for fish and fishermen with a 371-foot cargo ship called The Kraken. Just months after sending the Kraken to the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, biologists return to investigate one of the Texas Gulf Coast’s largest artificial reefs.
Find out more at
tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/wate...
Additional photography courtesy of:
Wilson Barbee
Jake Emmert
Chris Ledford
Jacob Morales
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
NOAA Fisheries

[@SnoozingDino]

Sink a ship in the middle of oceanic nowhere, and aquatic life will be like "it's free real estate".

[@tebigman65]

This is a wonderful program and well organized too! The world needs more conservation for our wildlife and habitat. Thanks for help the ocean a better place. Tom

[@bendalton5221]

goes back to a simple truth - you can't stop nature. Truly amazing that all of that takes place so quickly. And it's a great alternative for just junking and scrapping an old ship, gives an old lady a great purpose and cause. Makes me definitely want to take up scuba diving again.

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Nice Red snappers ! Fabulous

[@OfficialMaxBox]

Astounding how much life there was after less than a year.

[@jorgelionel4241]

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[@AusJackal]

Good work guys...

[@alejandrohernandez7340]

TPW is the best wildlife agency in America!!

[@commercialelectrician133]

always a great video you don't even have to wait till the end to give a thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍

[@tickedoffsheikh8587]

Love your work. Needs this in Guyana 🇬🇾 too. Keep up the great work.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

Red Snapper is some good eating! Texas, you've done a great job!

[@wheelmanstan]

awesome, giving back!

[@jaimeortega4940]

That's awesome! Great job!

[@ianrobinson8974]

Wonderful! First world peoples should facilitate this sort of facility for third world countries (eg Philippines) who rely on fish to survive.

[@rls303]

Thanks

[@noahtaylor4142]

Outstanding

[@rodneymorales7075]

Was there yesterday great fishing

[@noahtaylor4142]

Beautiful

[@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax]

BEAUTIFUL!! 🐋🔥🦈🔥🐋🔥🐟

[@alexisflores7770]

This is amazing! How cool

[@pakurilecz]

How many artificial reefs has Texas established. Is there a map that shows the locations for the various artificial reefs

[@tpwdproductionassistant5622]

I'm not sure of the exact number but there is an interactive map you can check out of all the sites at: tpwd.texas.gov/gis/ris/artificialreefs/

[@fducedam]

Wish California Department of Fish and Wildlife take notice and do something better than monitoring the decline of fish population.

[@michaelmixon2479]

I would rather see the old ships be used in this manner than scrapped. Supporting our oceans infrastructure is critical to the planet and many species.

[@noahtaylor4142]

Amazing

[@jaimeortega4940]

So that's where the "Kraken" was released.

[@evv4164]

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

[@ubetucan2747]

Great result, KUTGW. Did you get your Go-Pro back?

[@angelinecuria2506]

Amazing!! I do wish if I why ti college I did go to college I so Would of studied marine biologist

[@franciscowashington2155]

E lindo o fundo do mar 👍👍👍😎

[@noahtaylor4142]

Cool

[@jerrym1070]

Finally a great story for the world 💖

[@nancyterrero2085]

U.S create artificial reef with old subway cars have been dumped

[@notthatguy4703]

Wow! Humans doing something to not just repair damage to ecosystems, but actually enhance them??? Crazy good vibes from this video

[@mattacitores]

🌊👍🏼🔥

[@Stoffemollan]

Imagine filling up the decks of the boat with those "cement igloos" that the Fish Reef Project uses: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4GphqSEZZWZeZo

[@noahtaylor4142]

Nice

[@potgieterl]

Behold the future, great work money well spent. More?

[@ASD5NDE]

The real name of this ship is SCM fedra

[@ismailtopa3671]

It's cheaper and better controlled to sell the ship for scrap metal and construct shapes with far better longevity and productivity

[@eagleviewhd]

Maybe true, but much more fun to dive on a shipwreck, than some manmade objects!

[@messagegoeshere741]

Today, the Florida coral reef has reduced to only 2 - 5% of what it was in the last 30 years. Projects like this are important

[@noahtaylor9705]

Sick

[@joseventura5639]

Someone drop the coordinates ! Lol

[@wilsongarland7893]

When you have no defense go nasty. Why not prove me wrong, O you can't can you?

[@jonnieinbangkok]

Here's an idea...keep commercial fisherman off BOTH the reefs and the Kraken!

[@josephastier7421]

And by sinking it in such shallow water, other vessels will inevitably add themselves to the new reef over time.

[@notthatguy4703]

Lol

[@williamd1891]

140 ft deep is not shallow.

[@maxl3189]

@@williamd1891 his a bit cooked

[@shrimuyopa8117]

Of course there is tons of Red Snapper it is an OVER PROTECTED FISH. That's right I said OVER not under. The state of Texas only allows anglers to keep Red Snapper ONE week out of the entire year. They are possibly the most plentiful deep water fish that people want to eat. I would like it if Texas moved Snapper into a few different weeks in a year and maybe decreased the season of other fish and then rotated that to build other populations and give anglers the fish they want.

[@hendysetyawan3877]

real name ship scm tepuy ii

[@DsFk80s]

I see this as littering the ocean As if thousands of sunken world war ships and ocean liners just wasn't enough.

[@messagegoeshere741]

Really? After seeing all the life on that ship? Our oceans are really struggling right now. They need all the help they can get. And yes. This ship is helping. Look up older projects like this. They're homes to hundreds of ocean creatures.

[@DsFk80s]

@@messagegoeshere741 Yeah they sank ships for ocean life while straining the mining industries on shore and puting down more forest. That makes sense.

[@DsFk80s]

@@messagegoeshere741 Yeah they sank ships for ocean life while straining the mining industries on shore and puting down more forest. That makes sense.

[@tonyfrench1081]

Alison Baldwin needs speech therapy

[@juliemunoz2762]

considering our need for steel why are we sinking ships instead or recycling them.

[@ukaszwalczak1154]

To, save, sea life??

[@juliemunoz2762]

@@ukaszwalczak1154 there’s other materials that are more suitable for that, but I suppose. Of course it’s not going to make a difference if we don’t stop the fleet of 6500 Chinese boats from drag netting everything from all the fisheries in the ocean 365 days a year.

[@ukaszwalczak1154]

@@juliemunoz2762 EVERY material is suitable for that as long as it's not stained with anything, or contains harmful chemicals, etc.

[@juliemunoz2762]

@@ukaszwalczak1154 you’re missing the point. as you were.

[@ukaszwalczak1154]

@@juliemunoz2762 WHAT POINT? THERE IS NO POINT.

[@wilsongarland7893]

This is the cause of Sea Rise!

[@flypast9725]

Are you commenting the same thing on every artificial reef video or something?I’ve seen your comment about 10 times now........ and by the way, it isn’t!

[@wilsongarland7893]

@@flypast9725 OK then fill you kitchen sink to the very top, take all your dishes and place them into the sink and tell me what happens!

[@flypast9725]

@@wilsongarland7893 no no no no, it’s definitely not because of the polar ice caps melting or anything nooooooooo that would be ludicrous! The reason the pots and pans displace so much water is because the ratio of water to pots in a sink is so great, do the same thing with the ocean and a few small ships and there will be no affect whatsoever.

[@wilsongarland7893]

@@flypast9725 You keep thinking that until you are treading water! You proved my point! For as long as humans have taken to the sea, there have been shipwrecks. UNESCO estimates that 3 million sunken ships litter ocean bottoms worldwide, many of which date back thousands of years.

[@flypast9725]

@@wilsongarland7893 And you my friend have proven my point, ships in the sea will rot and break down into nothing over thousands of years, leaving nothing but reefs, making your point ill founded.

[@emmanuellorenzodiaz55]

all that toxic heavy metals

[@brian.7966]

they call this an artificial reef I call it lets dump out rubbish in the sea.

[@defeatedink0544]

No

[@cats400]

How is it rubbish? The state had to pay more than what the ship breaking companies in the third world would've paid in order to sink it. Plus, the sate had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove all of the hazardous waste before it could be sank.

[@bigbranemigranel7685]

EPA inspecting the ship for toxic materials and oils: allow us to introduce ourselves

[@fenix4553]

You're just speculating, and incorrectly

[@ahliehsusjsjsjsj8124]

Amazing

[@noahtaylor4142]

Sick