An 80-foot barge and a 45-foot tugboat named Chickadee were 'deployed' into the waters around Long Island this week to expand New York State's artificial reef system.
Barge 226 is now part of the Smithtown Reef, while the Chickadee, which was built by the Navy in 1948 and was used as tugboat for coal and oil barges, joined the McAllister Grounds Reef. All vessels are cleaned and prepared before being sunk into the water.
The NY State DEC explains, "Steel surplus materials are stable and durable reef-building material that provide shelter and forage opportunities for fin fish and crustaceans that inhabit these underwater structures, such as tautog, fluke, black sea bass, scup, and lobsters. Sunken vessels also attract Scuba divers that explore and photograph the underwater structures.
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