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SandBar 7:2, July, 2008 Coast to Coast and Everything in Between The Red Bird Reef, an artificial reef constructed from New York City’s subway cars off the coast of Delaware, has been a huge success with fish and fishermen alike. The reef consists of over 700 cars on the ocean floor and is populated by mussels, sponges, black sea bass, tautog, and flounder. Since the reef was started several years ago, commercial and recreational fishermen have flocked to the area. Other states, such as New Jersey Maryland, and Virginia, have also used New York’s subway cars to build reefs. The growth of Delaware and other states’ reefs may slow down this summer, however, as state officials in New York are working to get permits that would allow them to use the cars for reefs off their own coast, according to The New York Times. A shipwrecked dog named Snickers and parrot named Gulliver have been rescued and expect to find new homes. The pets were aboard their owners’ sailboat when it landed on a coral reef near a tiny atoll 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. The owners swam to shore with Snickers and Gulliver, but when the owners hitched a ride from the atoll on a cargo vessel, the pets were left in the care of native islanders. In March, word spread that the animals would be destroyed. A boating journal sent out an SOS and Norwegian Cruise Line workers were able to rescue Snickers from the island. Snickers was quarantined in Hawaii until he could be sent to his new owner in Las Vegas. Plans to move Gulliver from the atoll to nearby Christmas Island and later to Los Angeles are in place, according to the Associated Press. A missing Cape Cod lighthouse has shown up in California. The lighthouse was thought to be destroyed in 1925, but it was actually taken down by the Coast Guard and moved to the California coast. The find was discovered by lighthouse researchers, who could not uncover how or why the lighthouse was moved. The lighthouse is still used as a navigational aid and hostel in Point Montara, California, according to the Associated Press. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking comments on its proposed authorization of the Navy’s mid-frequency sonar training exercises around the Hawaiian Islands. Comments will be accepted through July 23. For more information, please visit http: //www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080623_navysonar.html .
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SandBar 7:2, July, 2008

Coast to Coast
and Everything in Between

The Red Bird Reef, an artificial reef constructed from New York City’s subway cars off the coast of Delaware, has been a huge success with fish and fishermen alike. The reef consists of over 700 cars on the ocean floor and is populated by mussels, sponges, black sea bass, tautog, and flounder. Since the reef was started several years ago, commercial and recreational fishermen have flocked to the area. Other states, such as New Jersey Maryland, and Virginia, have also used New York’s subway cars to build reefs. The growth of Delaware and other states’ reefs may slow down this summer, however, as state officials in New York are working to get permits that would allow them to use the cars for reefs off their own coast, according to The New York Times.

A shipwrecked dog named Snickers and parrot named Gulliver have been rescued and expect to find new homes. The pets were aboard their owners’ sailboat when it landed on a coral reef near a tiny atoll 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. The owners swam to shore with Snickers and Gulliver, but when the owners hitched a ride from the atoll on a cargo vessel, the pets were left in the care of native islanders. In March, word spread that the animals would be destroyed. A boating journal sent out an SOS and Norwegian Cruise Line workers were able to rescue Snickers from the island. Snickers was quarantined in Hawaii until he could be sent to his new owner in Las Vegas. Plans to move Gulliver from the atoll to nearby Christmas Island and later to Los Angeles are in place, according to the Associated Press.

A missing Cape Cod lighthouse has shown up in California. The lighthouse was thought to be destroyed in 1925, but it was actually taken down by the Coast Guard and moved to the California coast. The find was discovered by lighthouse researchers, who could not uncover how or why the lighthouse was moved. The lighthouse is still used as a navigational aid and hostel in Point Montara, California, according to the Associated Press.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking comments on its proposed authorization of the Navy’s mid-frequency sonar training exercises around the Hawaiian Islands. Comments will be accepted through July 23. For more information, please visit

http: //www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080623_navysonar.html .