last night the roommate was telling me about how they dump subway cars in the water to generate marine life and reefs. i was all, "nah ah, you're crazy, they don't do that." but they do! i am so going scuba diving in jersey in about 25 years. it's going to look post-apocalyptic down there.
ny daily news states that:
...some of the states - including New Jersey - stopped accepting them after 2003 because of concerns that asbestos from the decomposing cars could foul the fish kingdom.
The TA contends that subway cars once packed with sweaty straphangers make very fine homes for marine life.
"Asbestos is only a problem if it's dry and airborne," Seaton said.
"It's not a problem when the cars are at the bottom of the ocean," he added.
New York has yet to experiment with subway cars as artificial reefs - but the state has sunk old Good Humor ice cream trucks, armored vehicles and barges in the name of nature.
i don't know, it just doesn't seem right. but if the scientists say so, then i guess it's okay. even if in every comic book turned movie the scientists are always the villains.
that does seem rather messed up
ya learn something new every day
Posted by: solace | August 11, 2005 at 03:55 PM
I wonder if the dolphins will learn how to drive the trains.
Posted by: Lawrence | August 11, 2005 at 04:46 PM
You think subway cars are a weird thing to be dumping in the water?
http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=2415
Those crazy ecologists... ^_^
Posted by: Aaron F. | August 11, 2005 at 05:35 PM
I imagine a sunken subway car isn't much different than a sunken (purposely or accidentally) floating vessel -- it's a bunch of steel sitting on the ocean floor.
Posted by: Glenn | August 12, 2005 at 10:11 AM