I want to build and deploy my own FAD

[Mr. Sandman]

Originally Posted by likwid

Until the first dragger runs it over.

I figure if it works, more people will do it and eventually there will be so many FADs that draggers will just move on.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

I figure if it works, more people will do it and eventually there will be so many FADs that draggers will just move on.

just like they move on with all the lobster trawls

[beamie]

Sandman,

Don't know but that could be a slippery slope. Whether it is surface or subsurface it will become derelect fishing gear if not maintained. Can it be retrievable?

Think of all the BS with the whales geting caught up in fishing gear causing the fishing industry to use breakaway links etc.

If you dig deep enough there are probably some regulations on what it can be made of and where you can put it etc etc.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by striperman36

just like they move on with all the lobster trawls

[Raven]

think geodesic

[Sea Dangles]

Buckminster Fuller

[numbskull]

I've got a honda minivan with 230K miles you can sink if you want.

[Mr. Sandman]

If I had the ability to do it I might take you up on it. Ya know I would not mind seeing an old automobile reef in deeper water. (100'+) Imagine a several mile long reef where now we have an underwater desert. In a year it would be covered in growth and create habitat where there is none.
Not to mention it will keep the draggers away, esp if you scatter a few stray ones around the reef.

I have a buddy who is very active in artificial reef deployment (not in New England though) a few years ago he sent me this video of one they did down south. The place was an underwater desert then check it out after is sat a few months. I just uploaded the video and divers visit the reef 0, 3, 10 months after deployment.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

Buckminster Fuller

there was an article in wired
describing how if you had some wire mesh
of two different types of wire electrified with
a very low current it would calcify and eventually close in
and fill each and every opening in the wire until it became solid.

so if you built these dome bubbles (i call them)
stacked them on a barge and then dropped them down
in a cluster and connected them in series it would work

the best advantage of using Geodesics is the shape.....
same as constructing a round barn on land
which encloses the MOST amount of space
with the least amount of materials
and is stronger than any other design there is.

[Mr. Sandman]

likwid...draggers suck anyway you look at it, no math required. It is a stone-age way to fish and it should be stopped world-wide.