![]() ![]() “We will soon be executing a contract and purchase order, with a firm to clean the vessel, prepare it for reefing, and then to deploy it.” ![]() So it’s very fitting that this tug herself will take her place among our artificial reefs,” said Robert Turpin, Escambia County’s Marine Resources Manager. “It was actually the tugboat that towed out many of our existing artificial reefs into the Escambia County artificial reef inventory. She’ll be scuttled in 90-95 feet of water, about ten nautical miles southeast of Pensacola Pass. Fishers and divers are getting a new artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico, compliments of a retired tugboat.īuilt in 1952, “Ocean Wind” was a ship docking assist tug, largely in the Pensacola area, until its retirement two years ago. ![]()
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