Name: How Reefs Made With Human Remains Restore Florida Coast Line | World Wide Waste
Uploaded: 2021-07-01T06:56:17.000Z
Duration: 6 min 19 s
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Narrator: For years, people have dumped all kinds

to these massive objects and attract fish.

But just because it sinks  doesn't mean it will help.

In fact, some of these  damaged preexisting coral.

Now a company has said their artificial reef

There are thousands of memorial reef balls

and protect hundreds  of millions of dollars

of real estate from  storm surge flooding.

But with natural reefs dying off at an alarming rate,

can these underwater graveyards actually make a difference?

The two most important  factors for a good reef

Larry Beggs and his team at Reef Innovations

So Reef Innovations has to use a special mix.

Larry Beggs: The concrete is a  pH-neutralized, marine-grade concrete

Oysters, corals, invertebrates, and stuff that will grow

on the reef can attach to  the reef ball very easily.

Narrator: The company  uses fiberglass panels

They insert an inflated buoy to keep the center hollow,

creating the holes that  fish like to swim through.

Once the concrete dries,  the team rinses the balls

to expose the surfaces  where sea life will grow.

uses Larry's creations for their memorials.

We work with families  who have lost somebody

They will come to one of our project sites.

Narrator: The families mix cremated remains

with concrete to make  a separate centerpiece

George Frankel: What you're going to do is you can put your hand down,

We put fresh concrete on  the top of the reef ball,

and then they put handprints, they write messages.

as long as they're not  environmentally harmful.

Phyllis Flowers: They give you  actually the buckets and the mix,

and then you pour your remains into that mix.

Narrator: Phyllis Flowers  lost her son to brain cancer

I had no idea what the Eternal Reef was until John found it.

In a small way, he was giving  back to the world, in his mind,

by being able to add to the ecology of the coral reef

that will save, of  course, our seashores

Narrator: Families take  their finished reef balls

and drop the memorial down to the seabed.

another company is in the  underwater burial business.

The Neptune Memorial Reef  is the final resting place

Here, the human remains are mixed into statues

over 2,000 divers a month  that visit the Neptune Reef.

people hoped to create scenic dive sites in other places.

They've dropped passenger airplanes, car tires,

Elizabeth Mcleod: It was really  companies looking for cheaper ways

of disposing products that  they weren't using anymore,

And I think over time,  there's increased recognition

that these were not good for the environment.

Narrator: In the early  1970s, a nonprofit working

with the Army Corps of Engineers dumped 2 million tires

The group optimistically  called it the Osborne Reef.

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