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  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo shows: “A Splash of Yellow” - Sargassum Seaweed, Bushranger Bay, NSW Australia<br />
<br />
I love bold shapes and primary colours in my images, hence the bluebottles and crimson red waratah anemones in some of my other images. I think my portfolio lacked a little yellow and this golden coloured flora of the ocean just about filled the gap nicely. You'll find this seaweed pretty much everywhere along the coastline here in southern NSW. I lit it with a nice bright underwater strobe on a dark and rainy morning to give it that special something.<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
    Exclusivepix_what_lies_beneath6.jpg
  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo Shows: “A Silky Encounter 2” – Jardines de la Reina, Cuba<br />
<br />
An intimate moment between two silky sharks at Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) off the coast of Cuba. I had specially constructed a huge 18" dome port to shoot open ocean half over half underwater images and in these rough conditions really it came into it's own.<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
    Exclusivepix_what_lies_beneath5.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires20.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires14.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires13.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires10.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires05.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires01.jpg
  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo Shows: “Legal Immigrant” – A Long Finned Eel, Botanical Gardens, Sydney<br />
<br />
A long finned Eel living under the shadow of the iconic Sydney skyline in the botanical gardens. Born just off the coast of New Caledonia this eel would have made the 2000km journey to the east coast of Australia and one wet night climbed out of Sydney Harbour, slithered across the grass and into this freshwater pond where it will live for up to 30 years. Eventually the urge to breed will take back across the South Pacific Ocean. A journey its ancestors have been making for millions of years, long before the first humans settlers to this land and all without a passport or papers!<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
    Exclusivepix_what_lies_beneath8.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • 24/03/2010  - Egypt - <br />
Divers Close encounter with Dennis The "Friendly" Dugong<br />
These stunning photos was taken By Diver and Photographer  Rutger Geerling, of the now famous and friendly Dugong.<br />
<br />
Try imagining an area as large as a couple of football fields of underwater seagrass and an underwater visibility of about 20 meters/60 feet and you'll understand it's not easy to find a specific living animal, even it has the size of about two human beings.<br />
<br />
The "thing" I am talking about is "Dennis", the famous resident seacow (or Dugong, it's one of the three members of the Manatee family) of the Abu Dabbab bay near Port Ghalib in the Marsa Alam region of Egypt.<br />
(©Rutger Geerling/Exclusivepix)
    Exclusivepix_Dennis_Friendly_Dugong2.jpg
  • 24/03/2010  - Egypt - <br />
Divers Close encounter with Dennis The "Friendly" Dugong<br />
These stunning photos was taken By Diver and Photographer  Rutger Geerling, of the now famous and friendly Dugong.<br />
<br />
Try imagining an area as large as a couple of football fields of underwater seagrass and an underwater visibility of about 20 meters/60 feet and you'll understand it's not easy to find a specific living animal, even it has the size of about two human beings.<br />
<br />
The "thing" I am talking about is "Dennis", the famous resident seacow (or Dugong, it's one of the three members of the Manatee family) of the Abu Dabbab bay near Port Ghalib in the Marsa Alam region of Egypt.<br />
(©Rutger Geerling/Exclusivepix)
    Exclusivepix_Dennis_Friendly_Dugong1.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires22.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires23.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires21.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires17.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires19.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
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Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
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  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
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  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
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  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires12.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires11.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires09.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires07.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires06.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires04.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires03.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires02.jpg
  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo Shows: “Your Move” – American Crocodile, Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.<br />
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So for this shot I'm deep in a Cuban saltwater mangrove snorkelling in about 2 feet of murky water and looking at this through the viewfinder, the business end of a wild 2.5 meter American saltwater crocodile (not an alligator). Now my photography has led me into a few interesting situations in the past, but this takes the cake. I'm staying as still as can be and mumbling profusely to myself "Focus, frame, just get the shot" One of the most exhilarating moments of my life! After our brief standoff he turned around and drifted off into the cloudy green water. <br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo shows: “A Silky Encounter 1” – Jardines de la Reina, Cuba<br />
<br />
Shooting these silky sharks off the coast of Cuba was actually an incredibly difficult task. Not because they were hard to find, on the contrary, there were often too many and they move real fast in these open and rough seas! So to single one out for an intimate portrait was quite frustrating. It required a high amount of concentration; luckily this one slowed down just long enough to capture the shot.<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo shows: “Ocean Rose” – Bass Point, NSW Australia<br />
<br />
A beautiful crimson red waratah anemone, the rose of the seabed, in a rock pool at Bass Point, NSW. These are native to Australia and NZ only and are named after the red waratah flower.<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo Shows: “Crimson Tide” – Waratah Anemones, Port Kembla, NSW Australia<br />
This image is shot right out the front of where I used to work. During my lunchbreak walk I had found this tiny rockpool containing these wonderful bright red waratah anemones, I had to make a picture of them. I knew I could only shoot at the lowest of tides and I wanted to coincide it with a nice sunrise, it was to be a long waiting game!!  In the meantime, whenever I could get access to this tiny pool, I experimented with what camera accessories (ports, lighting etc) I could fit in such a small space to take the shot. I had to strip my housing right down, removing handles and lighting brackets etc. Then the perfect morning arrived. I remember there was a fairly strong, hot summer breeze that dried the exposed part of my port in seconds, so I had to constantly ladle water over it, but my plan played out wonderfully and the picture worked how I wanted it to!! The silv
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  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo Shows: “Smiling Assassin” – American Crocodile, Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.<br />
<br />
I wanted to make an image that had both strong eye contact and visible teeth to bring out the character and personality of this animal. I slowly and cautiously approached it maintaining strong eye contact and light fin movements to avoid stirring up the silt. The crocodile remained motionless with just it's yellow periscope like eye staring straight back at me, it felt like stand off, who would falter first? Now it’s very seldom I remember the exact moment of pressing the shutter on “the shot of the day” but I do remember everything about this one; pulling focus, framing up, the sweat beading on my forehead and holding my breath. Confident I had my shot in a couple of frames I slowly backed away and got back in the boat. Mind blown!!<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
    Exclusivepix_what_lies_beneath10.jpg
  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
<br />
Photo Shows: “Midnight Nudi” – Bushrangers Bay, NSW Australia<br />
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Being an ocean photographer has led me into some strange and curious habits. Wading around in low tide rock pools in the middle of the night is one of them. However, the rewards can be endless from a photographers point of view, such as finding this Hypselodoris bennetti in inches of water. Photographing it from a low angle just beneath the surface has created this wonderful reflection. This species of nudibranch is endemic to south eastern NSW, you’ll find it no where else in the world!<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
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  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
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About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
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Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
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About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
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Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
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About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • 24/03/2010  - Egypt - <br />
Divers Close encounter with Dennis The "Friendly" Dugong<br />
These stunning photos was taken By Diver and Photographer  Rutger Geerling, of the now famous and friendly Dugong.<br />
<br />
Try imagining an area as large as a couple of football fields of underwater seagrass and an underwater visibility of about 20 meters/60 feet and you'll understand it's not easy to find a specific living animal, even it has the size of about two human beings.<br />
<br />
The "thing" I am talking about is "Dennis", the famous resident seacow (or Dugong, it's one of the three members of the Manatee family) of the Abu Dabbab bay near Port Ghalib in the Marsa Alam region of Egypt.<br />
(©Rutger Geerling/Exclusivepix)
    Exclusivepix_Dennis_Friendly_Dugong6.jpg
  • 24/03/2010  - Egypt - <br />
Divers Close encounter with Dennis The "Friendly" Dugong<br />
These stunning photos was taken By Diver and Photographer  Rutger Geerling, of the now famous and friendly Dugong.<br />
<br />
Try imagining an area as large as a couple of football fields of underwater seagrass and an underwater visibility of about 20 meters/60 feet and you'll understand it's not easy to find a specific living animal, even it has the size of about two human beings.<br />
<br />
The "thing" I am talking about is "Dennis", the famous resident seacow (or Dugong, it's one of the three members of the Manatee family) of the Abu Dabbab bay near Port Ghalib in the Marsa Alam region of Egypt.<br />
(©Rutger Geerling/Exclusivepix)
    Exclusivepix_Dennis_Friendly_Dugong5.jpg
  • 24/03/2010  - Egypt - <br />
Divers Close encounter with Dennis The "Friendly" Dugong<br />
These stunning photos was taken By Diver and Photographer  Rutger Geerling, of the now famous and friendly Dugong.<br />
<br />
Try imagining an area as large as a couple of football fields of underwater seagrass and an underwater visibility of about 20 meters/60 feet and you'll understand it's not easy to find a specific living animal, even it has the size of about two human beings.<br />
<br />
The "thing" I am talking about is "Dennis", the famous resident seacow (or Dugong, it's one of the three members of the Manatee family) of the Abu Dabbab bay near Port Ghalib in the Marsa Alam region of Egypt.<br />
(©Rutger Geerling/Exclusivepix)
    Exclusivepix_Dennis_Friendly_Dugong4.jpg
  • 24/03/2010  - Egypt - <br />
Divers Close encounter with Dennis The "Friendly" Dugong<br />
These stunning photos was taken By Diver and Photographer  Rutger Geerling, of the now famous and friendly Dugong.<br />
<br />
Try imagining an area as large as a couple of football fields of underwater seagrass and an underwater visibility of about 20 meters/60 feet and you'll understand it's not easy to find a specific living animal, even it has the size of about two human beings.<br />
<br />
The "thing" I am talking about is "Dennis", the famous resident seacow (or Dugong, it's one of the three members of the Manatee family) of the Abu Dabbab bay near Port Ghalib in the Marsa Alam region of Egypt.<br />
(©Rutger Geerling/Exclusivepix)
    Exclusivepix_Dennis_Friendly_Dugong3.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    ExPix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires08.jpg
  • Stunning photographs show what lies beneath<br />
<br />
Like the proverbial ‘calm’ swan who’s paddling like crazy, this stunning photo-series shows that what you see on the surface isn’t always reflected underneath.<br />
‘For me one of the most wondrous parts of any dive is the moment that the water engulfs my mask as my head slips below the surface,’ explains British-born, and now Aussie-based, photographer Matty Smith.<br />
‘I think it’s the suspense of the unknown of what lies beneath,’ he adds.<br />
Also an experienced diver, he specialises in ‘half over half underwater images’ that marry the wet, unfamiliar world of the Pacific Ocean, with our dry, familiar landscape.<br />
The results offer a tantalising glimpse into a secret underwater world.<br />
<br />
<br />
‘The dynamics of the changing water line across my lens port produces beautiful and unpredictable curves, which is also an added element of mystery,’ says Matty.<br />
<br />
‘I have the worlds biggest playground at my feet, the Pacific Ocean….. And I have truly fallen in love with it’<br />
©Matty Smith/Exclusivepix Media
    Exclusivepix_what_lies_beneath4.jpg
  • Osborne Reef: A Failed Artificial Reef Of Discarded Tires<br />
<br />
About 7,000 feet offshore of Sunrise Boulevard off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies an underwater wasteland of rotting tires. This is Osborne Reef, an underwater cemetery of 2 million tires that were placed there in the 1970s as a part of a failed ecological operation to create an artificial reef. Over the years, many of the tires were dislodged by tropical storms and hurricanes and caused damage to nearby existing coral reefs. Forty years later, the tires are still there causing more harm than good in the coastal Florida waters.<br />
<br />
Osborn Reef was the brainchild of a non-profit group called Broward Artificial Reef, or BARINC, composed of a group of fishermen, back in the spring of 1972. The idea was to create a reef using old tires that were piling up around the county's landfills and rural areas. This was before recycling caught on. They were convinced that corals would attach and grow on the tires and provide additional habitat for marine life. It was a well intentioned but not a particularly well thought out plan.<br />
With the support of US Army Corps of Engineers and more than 100 privately owned vessels, placement of the tires began over 36 acres of the ocean floor, 7,000 feet offshore in 65 feet of water. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company provided equipment for the auspicious undertaking, even supporting the project so far as to drop a gold-painted tire to christen the site. The tires were bundled together with steel clips and nylon rope and lowered onto the sea floor. However, the saline waters of the ocean quickly corroded these materials causing the tires to separate, and carried them away by ocean currents and waves. The tires, with their newfound mobility, not only destroyed any marine life that had thus far grown on the tires, it effectively prevented the growth of any new organisms. Besides, the loose tires scoured the ocean floor and damaged existing reefs in the area. Thousands of tir
    Exclusivepix_Reef_Of_Discarded_Tires...jpg
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...jpg
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...jpg
  • TIANJIN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 01: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Having Dinner At Subsea Tunnel <br />
<br />
People have dinner at subsea tunnel of Tianjin Polar Ocean World on September 1, 2014 in Tianjin, China. Tianjin Polar Ocean World held an activity of having dinner at its subsea tunnel to welcome the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival.<br />
©Exclusivepix
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  • TIANJIN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 01: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Having Dinner At Subsea Tunnel <br />
<br />
People have dinner at subsea tunnel of Tianjin Polar Ocean World on September 1, 2014 in Tianjin, China. Tianjin Polar Ocean World held an activity of having dinner at its subsea tunnel to welcome the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival.<br />
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    Exclusivepix_Dinner_At_Subsea_Tunnel...jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack11.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack10.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack06.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack04.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack03.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack01.jpg
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...jpg
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...jpg
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...jpg
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...jpg
  • EXTREME close-up as BEAR goes in to sniff Russian wildlife photographer<br />
<br />
This is the hair-raising moment a bear moved in for an extreme close-up as it sniffed a wildlife photographer camped out in the Russian wilderness.<br />
<br />
Mike Korostelev captured pictures of the brown bear after it came within inches of his lens at his hide-out in Kuril Lake in Kamchatka, Russia.<br />
<br />
He was able to get up close and personal with the animals thanks to his self-built protective photography cage.<br />
<br />
He said: 'For pictures of the bears on the Kuril Lake, I specially built a cage of metal sticks. I brought the cage to the lake and put it on the shore, where there were a lot of salmon going to spawn.<br />
<br />
'The cage became my home for a couple of weeks; although I spent the night in a tent on the territory of the Ranger Station.<br />
<br />
'I sat patiently in a cage, waiting for the bears. When bears passed, I tried not to move, so they do not scare off.<br />
<br />
'Some of them passed by, just slightly glancing at me. Some fished in front of my cage, not paying attention to me. <br />
<br />
'And some of the most curious came to the cell and started sniffing me and my camera.<br />
<br />
'At this point, I tried not to make a sound, and all that could be heard was the bear breathing and the sound of mosquito flies around his nose.' <br />
©Mike Korostelev/Exclusivepix Media
    ExPix_Bear_moves_in_for_EXTREME_clos...JPG
  • TIANJIN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 01: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Having Dinner At Subsea Tunnel <br />
<br />
People have dinner at subsea tunnel of Tianjin Polar Ocean World on September 1, 2014 in Tianjin, China. Tianjin Polar Ocean World held an activity of having dinner at its subsea tunnel to welcome the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival.<br />
©Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Dinner_At_Subsea_Tunnel...jpg
  • TIANJIN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 01: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Having Dinner At Subsea Tunnel <br />
<br />
People have dinner at subsea tunnel of Tianjin Polar Ocean World on September 1, 2014 in Tianjin, China. Tianjin Polar Ocean World held an activity of having dinner at its subsea tunnel to welcome the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival.<br />
©Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Dinner_At_Subsea_Tunnel...jpg
  • TIANJIN, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 01: (CHINA OUT) <br />
<br />
Having Dinner At Subsea Tunnel <br />
<br />
People have dinner at subsea tunnel of Tianjin Polar Ocean World on September 1, 2014 in Tianjin, China. Tianjin Polar Ocean World held an activity of having dinner at its subsea tunnel to welcome the upcoming Mid-autumn Festival.<br />
©Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Dinner_At_Subsea_Tunnel...jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack12.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack09.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack08.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack07.jpg
  • Great White tries to attack Motor on Back of Boat<br />
<br />
Approximately eight kilometers off the coast of Gansbaai, quite close to Dyer Iceland / South Africa, a great white shark tried to attack the outboard motor of our boat.<br />
<br />
The touch-sensitive area of the nose of the shark has unusual consequences: The shark opens its mouth and is relatively far from the water. In slow motion, it remains for a moment, then again to return back to his element ..<br />
©Klaus Jos/Exclusivepix
    Exclusivepix_Shark_attack05.jpg
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