Artificial reef off Mickler's Beach gets new material

Reef offshore St. Johns County will attract divers and anglers

JACKSONVILLE, Fla – An artificial reef off the coast of St. Johns County grows larger with another deployment of concrete structures to the ocean floor.

The reef builders at TISIRI have stayed busy building up the reef site offshore of Mickler's Beach. The latest addition at John C. Leone Reef Site includes concrete mooring blocks used to hold retired navigational buoy markers. 

The USCG vessel Maria Bray deployed the reef blocks close together underwater to enhance the reefs vertical profile. 

Divers and anglers can visit the site at: N 30°10.163, W 81°09.627.30°10.

 


About the Author:

After covering the weather from every corner of Florida and doing marine research in the Gulf, Mark Collins settled in Jacksonville to forecast weather for The First Coast.