states of New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, California and Florida. Millions of tires, usually bundled with nylon straps or steel cables, were cast into the sea off Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and off the U.S. Using the tire project as a salvage exercise, the military divers learned they could strap together 50 to 70 tires with wire cables and lift them to the surface with inflatable air bags, where a crane hauled the bundle from the water. Army, Navy and Coast Guard spent three weeks in June pulling up 10,373 sand-filled and slime-coated tires from the ocean floor. Now, local authorities are going after some 700,000 tires dumped off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, up the coast from Miami. “Now I think it’s pretty clear it was a bad idea.” “It was one of those ideas that seemed good at the time,” said Jack Sobel, a senior scientist at The Ocean Conservancy, a Washington-based environmental group. Salvage operations will continue for the next month then resume next year. However, coral would not stick to the rubber and the tires now present an environmental hazard. The tires were placed on the ocean floor in the 1970s to act as an artificial reef.
The goal of the salvage mission is to retrieve approximately 2 million tires. Coast Guard divers through the Innovative Readiness Training program. MDSU 2 is conducting salvage operations in conjunction with U.S. 6 prepares a lift bag to salvage tires off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 4, 2007. Navy Diver attached to Mobile Diving Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 Det.
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