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Published online 10 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070709-3
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Divers dismantle artificial reef
Wayward tyres were damaging corals off Florida.
An artificial reef made from tyres dumped off the coast of Florida is being dismantled, after the tyres broke their moorings and damaged natural reef in the ocean.
The reef was made in the 1970s, when an estimated 2 million tyres were chained to the seabed across 34 acres off the coast near Fort Lauderdale.
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