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How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:25 am
by tree4
All we need now is a few volunteers? Any Jet Skiers out there?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8043624.stm

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:26 am
by libby
That is beyond creepy....

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:56 am
by Hang11
Odd.

I might try it with my mother in law though. Do they have to be dead before you chuck them in the sea?

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:14 am
by tree4
Hang11 wrote:Odd.

I might try it with my mother in law though. Do they have to be dead before you chuck them in the sea?


No just in powder from so you can mix them with concrete.

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2009 8:10 pm
by flyingvee
ugh looks like those cocoon things in Alien.. :spew:

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:09 pm
by JustGareth
Thats actually crazy. Whats wrong with a normal grave these days?

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2009 1:16 pm
by phillwilson
wow, i wonder if they would let me do this in scarborough....cant see the local council saying no !!! lol

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2009 4:09 am
by parrysurf
I can't believe you guys think that is creepy!! What would you prefer? Some plaque or tomb monolith for family to weep at?? :yearght:

Face mortality and do something with it! This is the best dead folk idea I have ever seen. Public and private funding on similar reef projects is always short...esp with our present world economy. This gets individuals to privately fund, and puts a positive on the persons death....rather than a pine box rotting underground!

I fail to see the creepy.

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:46 am
by Real Pol
JustGareth wrote:Thats actually crazy. Whats wrong with a normal grave these days?


The amount of land it uses and the pollution that it causes to the ground water that's what!


The fuel used and air emision from a crematorium aren't much better but at least this tries to give something back.

Why is this so different from scattering ashes under a planted tree?

Re: How to build a Reef and keep the sea clean of crap

PostPosted: Fri May 22, 2009 10:13 am
by Hang11
No way would I want my body to be used to give SUPers and boogie boarders a wave.

It would be good to be turned into an ultra shallow rocky death closeout at the end of the wave though.