We live in a time where pollution is one of the major problems and people come up with new solutions and ideas to help protect the environment, but the Osborne Reef at Fort Lauderdale was not so lucky when over 700,000 had been dumped at the seas` bottom in the past several decades. That is nearly 70 feet down. This caused a major issue to the sea life down there, hence no fish lived there and the place became nothing more than an underwater junkyard. The operation to help protect the Osborne Reef and clean the sea bottom cost millions of dollars.
There are short clips in the video in which you can see how tires are picked up from the sea and dumped onto a ship which is going to get rid of them somewhere else.
Pat Quinn speaks that this turned out to be an ecological disaster due to the fact that thousands of tires are floating on the sea and threaten to kill even more plants and fish. Furthermore, if there happens to be a hurricane, this might cause even more damage to the Osborne Reef. Commissioners state that they could not finish cleaning the sea due to the lack of funds, and so they cannot pay a private company to do this. They are hoping to get help from the government too! The place was also cleaned by the US Department of Defense when they trained their navy divers, but they could not help this year. Will they manage to clean every remaining tire from the Osborne Reef?
