It took two tries, a broken-down pump and a runaway anchor, but Alabama’s newest artificial reef is finally where it belongs: on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. “No, but it’s down,” said Craig Newton, a biologist with the Alabama Marine Resources Division, when asked whether the sinking went…
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Alabama Preparing to Sink Another Big Ship as Reef Zone’s Dive Scene Keeps Growing
Alabama’s artificial reef zone, already the largest in the country according to the state’s conservation department, is about to get another boost from a big boat. “It’s something that we’re proud of,” said Craig Newton, Alabama’s artificial reef coordinator. Sometime in the fall or early winter, the former Fairfield New…