潜水新闻
世界上第一个浮礁——这是澳大利亚东部城市黄金海岸附近开展的一个不寻常项目的声称,旨在吸引更多水肺潜水员来到该地区。
Australian company Subcon Technologies has just been appointed by the city and the state of Queensland to deliver the artificial reef.
也可以参考: 澳大利亚漂浮的神奇礁石向潜水者开放
Designed by local artist Daniel Templeman, it will consist of nine buoyant “sculptural reef flutes”, each one to be anchored to the seabed 16-20m below by reinforced-concrete and steel pyramids.
The plan is to attract a projected 16,600 new tourists, create jobs and generate revenue of more than Aus $30 million in the reef’s first 10 years.
Gold Coast, near Brisbane, lies south of the Great Barrier Reef. The proposed site is about 1.5 miles offshore and east of a wreck called the Scottish Prince.
“The floating reef will establish itself instantly as a must-do or bucket-list experience when you are on the Gold Coast,” stated the city’s Mayor Tom Tate. “Divers will be able to swim around and through the floating reefs, which over time will become covered in marine growth, attracting schools of fish and other species.”
据称,Subcon Technologies 迄今为止已交付了 20 多个“工程珊瑚礁”,用于栖息地恢复、潜水和钓鱼目的,但黄金海岸项目将是其迄今为止最大的项目。
“We’ve carefully incorporated features we know will rapidly recruit marine life including fish, flora and reef invertebrates,” said the company’s CEO Matthew Allen.
“Resembling bommies or vertical-column reef outcrops, it will be no time before the reefs are teeming with a diversity of marine life, creating a living artwork of ecological ocean habitats.”