Off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, lies one of the most notorious examples of human intervention gone wrong in the marine environment. The Osborne Reef, once promoted as an innovative artificial reef project, is now widely recognized as an environmental failure—and a lesson the ocean is still paying for decades later. The Origin of the Osborne Reef In the 1970s, a … [Read more...] about Group shares eerie photos of disastrous man-made reef off coast of Florida: ‘We definitely have a lot of work to do’