Tires Off SE Florida (was "Warm water dive in continental US")

Jer wrote

Jer: Last I heard (last year I think), the state was looking for funds to
undo
Jer: that catastrophic brain fart.

Lee: They're not looking hard enough. Divers all over the place have
volunteered
Lee: to participate in tire removal projects. All the state has to do is
get us
Lee: there and back and provide a way to take the tires back to shore. Some
of
Lee: us are willing to go further. Some of us with boats would provide our
own
Lee: transportation to the sites and, on a space available basis, would take
Lee: others out as well. In our case, the state doesn't even have to
provide
Lee: transportation, just a way to pull the tires out of the water and get
them
Lee: back to shore. Granted, it would not be a quick process if done by
Lee: volunteers, but it would at least be progress, something we're not
seeing
Lee: now.

Jer: Yeah, that's a sad deal... I'd be interested in hearing about what
sort
Jer: of system is proposed. Some sort of hoist at the surface while divers
Jer: hang one tire after another? This would offer non-divers a topside
Jer: opportunity to be active participants. A barge could haul a lot of
Jer: tires to shore while smaller tender boats would offload their catch and
Jer: transport the divers. Whatever ends up, that's gonna be a ungodly
mess.

My recollection is that they planned to hook a bunch together and bring them
up at once, but that may have been part of discussions rather than state
plans. It's been a while since this topic was last discussed.

I'm glad this got introduced into this thread. I'm going to move it to a
thread of its own after I send this. Once again reminded of the issue, I'm
going to spend some time trying to find out just what the status of the
state's plans are.

I'll get back to the group with whatever I find, assuming that somebody else
does not beat me to it.

Lee