They Dumped 2 Million Tires Into The Ocean. Fifty Years Later You Won’t Believe the Results! 

💯 From my own observations on the other side of the planet, the benefits of artificial reefs as you stated is spot on.

The tires are actually very efficient fuel… ground up and mixed with cole, creates an extremely hot fuel mixture.. and with the new technology air scrubbers, cleaner than any other type of disposal… same with plastic.. both are Freeeeee Fuel!!!

My former ship, the USCGC Duane, is now a reef off the East coast of Florida. It's considered a successful project.

Works really good on a small scale. It’s the oldest trick in the book for stocking a small pond with new fry. Chain a bunch of tires together with a couple of cinderblocks. Throw them in the water just off the bank. Voilà. The larger fish can’t eat up the fry, and your fish population explodes.

Use stainless chain. Edit: Carbon fiber links would be ideal in that environment.

Get to answering then

That's why I'm asking! Is there a reason?

Careful. If you investigate too deeply you'll end up labeled a far right extremist for having the audacity to point blame at a small group of sociopaths that keep boasting about their evil deeds. @@robertbolino9052

More like Americans, lol.

More like Bankers

The cheapskate companies who want to pretend to solve the problem they caused need to pay for their own damage.

Not really

What am trying to say is they shouldn't earn money off it they polluted the ocean and atmosphere its their job to fix it

@@Katsojay is that it? Your whole response?no reason no logic not even an opinion as to why the people making things better shouldn’t make a little profit for their efforts?

@@roysnider3456 don't mind this katsojoy person. They are the typical liberal they think the government should just print money and hand it out to anyone who claims to make the world safer and more eko. Never mind us greedy humans that have to live on earth. Why do we need to make a profit ?...when the government can just print more money!!!!!!!

Regrettably, the worst of it comes from Asia. Don't get me started...

The ocean is the biggest garbage dump in the world and that is as it should be.

@@marioxerxescastelancastro8019 Not if you eat seafood it isnt.

@@gordocarbo I do not. Seafood is just edible garbage.

Have you been diving in the Dominican Republic? I did a two-tank dive on the south shore of the DR and was puzzled by the lack of fish/wildlife AND the strange, gray'ish color of the coral. I also noticed, literally dozens of cans and plastic bottles all around the coral formations! So I managed to sneak away from the team (I stayed within sight of the group). When it was time to surface, I still had over 800 pounds of air, and I noticed that the anchor was stuck and everyone was on the surface except me and the dive master. I signaled him that I would get the anchor loose, and he and I went to work on it. That's when I realized why the coral was all dead and there was no fish! The anchor was lodged IN the coral, AND the line was wrapped around a huge coral head. I freed the anchor (with help from the dive master) and we surfaced. IMMEDIATELY I noticed a concrete anchor bouy not 500 feet away, and it was embedded in sand! So, naturally, I said something to the dive master and he said, and I quote: "The coral around here is all like that." 😳 I've been diving since 1970, and I've always been taught, and I respected that teaching, that you NEVER touch coral! (We've all hit it on occasion, but we certainly try not to) The people of the DR have ZERO respect for the eco system of the ocean, and the vast majority of the coral is dead and trash litters the ocean floor. On the bus back to the resort, I was struck by the amount of litter, especially plastic, on the sides of the roads. I've never been diving anywhere so dirty in my entire life. My advice to anyone who likes to snorkel or dive is: STAY AWAY FROM THE DR!

Farmers are pretty smart, unlike the US military....

"When money talks, NOBODY walks."

Without profit there is apathy and misery. Do gooders live in a false sense of security and abundance provided by capitalism

Aye. Which is why the capitalis USA flourished while the communist USSR and China floundered.

You need to look up an article is Discovery magazine called Anything into Oil…check it out, y’all might learn something

Profit is a strong motivation, but not the only one. For example, if you volunteer you are still getting things done without a profit motive. The problem with profit as your only motivation is that it also easily leads to perverse outcomes like out of control pollution, not to mention (at times) illegality. Profit continually leads to apathy and misery if the wealth is concentrated. A rising tide should lift all boats. If you have a society (say) like the USA where wealth is super-concentrated you can easily find plenty of misery and poverty.

As a structural engineer, I have learned that complicated problems usually have a simple solution. If we step back and look at the "Big Picture", we are able to see the root cause of the problem 👍🏼 We start there...

Now that, was funny, and sad, because it's true.

@@Skyskwatch297 We have Tide pod eaters, Flat earthers and more pronouns than we can shake a stick at. Common sense, not so common anymore. Simple solutions, not so simple. People now step back just to get a better angle for their videos.

And, all those useless covid masks being discarded, clogging the seas. And the idea of the 1960s Hippies making people think of the environment? Yeah, just google up pics of Yashur's Farm right after Woodstock. 😂

It's called cooperate , instead we have a competition , for everything .

Yes, that is a great idea! One question, though, how well would this mixture handle rapid changes in temperature?

They've been talking about doing just that since the 1960s as a "miracle solution" for the Tire Problem, much like the artificial reef "miracle solution". It's actually been done - Arizona piloted programs for it with some success, but there's always a problem, and in the case of mixing ground tires into asphalt, the benefits are that it's a smoother ride, sound pollution gets reduced, and you make some of the tires disappear, but it requires energy and CO2 to grind all those tires up, and the resulting asphalt mix is notoriously unstable, with the asphalt easily breaking down under various conditions unless more chemical goop gets mixed in. And as usual, a lot of these sorts of problems - toxicity, unsustainability, breakdown of materials over time into new problems, and so on - often take years, decades, or generations to appear, so that future generations can slap their foreheads and ask "what were they thinking, trying to do good this way???" In any event, it looks like this "miracle solution" never really went away, they're still putting research and development into it, and who knows? Maybe they'll find a way to make it work eventually in a way that creates fewer problems than it solves. Good luck to them!

they do this here in las vegas, they also do this in arizona, texas and california. you can read the article in asphalt magazine.

@@pietrayday9915 There have been a number of breakthroughs in recycling or getting rid of plastics and other misc petroleum based products. Microbes, worms, novel chemical reactions, all kinds of research is going on. I wouldn't be too surprised if in the next 10 years something really interesting happens on the recycling front.

*Your video is very good, I see the effort you put in to create a great product for us, thank you!*

The WHOLE point...🧐

Humans can only learn by F-Around and find out, way.

in the US nothing moves without profit, even if it is good for all!

It is. But I am a bit critical about him lecturing about the co2 emissions this memorial generates. I mean, he wouldn't do an episode showing how much pollution his videos are generating, would he?

*Your video is very good, I see the effort you put in to create a great product for us, thank you!*

Same here

Hold your tounge and say that.

They should have been scrapped. Our Federal Government has an excuse rather than a solid solution for every problem...and THEY are the problem. I agree that those responsible, ie Goodyear, should be held accountable for cleaning that mess up. Unfortunately since the EPA is a Government agency, that will never happen. They're as effective as the FDA is with BIG PHARMA. On my not so humble opinion. ~APRIL LIPKE

Don't sunk ships actually make good artificial reefs? I have heard of them being sunk purposely for that reason, but with better results than the tire idea. Though when they do it deliberately for a reef they remove all the potentially polluting things like motor oil and fuel and all that, I'm guessing that might not have been a priority for the military just looking to get rid of obsolete ships.🤷 lol of course I posted this right at the end of the video 😂

Your comment is right on the money.

​@@jameslipke354well the navy does need to practice with their weapon systems. Not exactly a total waste

@johnkkkj: if pros gets an apostrophe then why does not cons ? Open your eyes.

You have something on your nose (it's brown) The irony though is that it was far from keeping it real and one only needs to recognize the multiple attacks on Florida which were gratuitous at best. Enjoy your red pills

​@@HaroldBrice WOW! Who shit in your cereal?

@@briank.2650

They actually make videos like this often. Not necessarily an “educational” one like this but a single 20 min video dedicated to 1 topic. They’re cool

I was in Florida in2021, after COVID-19; I did not have any knowledge of it. Thanks be to god. However, as a civil engineer, I’ve witnessed sea blooms of the sargassum in the ocean. Before removing the tires, and after seeing the chemical damages were already done, thoughts from soil science is to reset the entire product beneath a hot bed of soils. Such would be a tanker that churns hot soil to do the same as the posts of tires. The results would be land reclamation. The chemical spoilage would be converted by soils, the number one organic converting mechanism. Picking the tires out is just for people who have hurt small pretty fish, and apparently they have really stunted it for hundreds of years. If you have already allowed the damage, the damage is somewhat irreversible, so reclaiming land is a better option. Seaweed spawning is going to recover the ocean faster than removing tires. They might want to save the shape of Florida. The Pangea concept might not be exactly true. Asia and the seven continents are expanding bodies, and one day in the center of the ocean another continent is probable. There are conservative minds who created Pangea. Human morale fiber is not to go beyond a visible conservative.

SOUNDS LIKE A CRY BABY CRYING BOUT PPL MAKING MONEY WHILE DOING GOOD, SOUNDS LIKE A DEMONCRAT HONESTLY

Back in 2016 Trump got elected, two months into his Presidency he said we really need to clean up the ocean, their was a vote and none of the Democrats or Republicans wanted to spend the money on cleaning the ocean, but sure as hell were real quick to send billions to Ukraine, and we all know half that money came right back here into the crooked Politicians pockets.

Probably the same reason, disposing or refurbishing would cost more

This may be a good idea for military forces, solving 2 problems at the same time. But we need to consider the fact that the environment may not agree. If we can build new ships and ammo, why cant we use a non profitable shipyard to break down old ships instead of sinking or sending them to Africa for breakdown? Something is wrong with our economic models when we cant take care of the products we produce. I am not one of these crazy environmentalists, but I do realize thar other things than CO2 is a bigger problem to the world. Mercury, Lead, plastics in water, Rubber, radioactive waste etc needs to be taken care of as well. USA have paid Russia a lot of money to scrap old Submarine ships in Murmansk.

Disgusting. We eat the seaweed and seafood from the sea, why would anyone want to dump garbage into the bowl of soup they are eating from?

@@funpau7549 Yes, you have a point there. During the dark ages, people had their drinking wells to close to dirty mottes (incl fecal mattet) around water castles. Which resulted in all sorts of diseases. Up until 1970 or so, the world regarded our seas as self-emptying waste bins. When the austronauts sat on the moon and looked back at the earth, they started to question this, becoming early environmentists. Jim Hansen at Nasa was one of them. It will take a long time, but today we are aware of the situation, and there will be inventions to improve things. I think Energy and Freshwater needs to be prioritized for industrialized countries. For developing countries freshwater, toilets, education and planting forests into deserts to increase living standards without Carbon pollution might be prioritized.

I swam the bow of the Beagle off of Key Largo, very cool/eerie environment around ~160ft below surface. Did the Captain Morgan pose on one of the barrels still strung up on deck and won a free cask of rum.

So we need more war? lol

​@@angelofamillionyears4599no, we just need limits on fishing

Any boats or ships were being targeted and sunk by the Nazis. Any time there's a danger to humans and we refrain from our usually harmful activities, nature begins to thrive and pollution lessens. Hmmm 🤔

Tell the Chinese ! Ha

We need to stop them tearing up the sea bed

thank you so much!

Trains ? They dump trains into the ocean ?

We should never dump our waste in the ocean. Artificial reefs are just a cheap way of getting rid of our waste. It disturbes nature.

So you think TOXIC waste like tyres is just fine.

​@@ThePixey1000I don't think you read him right.

​@@dmitripogosian5084Yep, the shells of old subway cars are sometimes dumped.

I wish the information about this was better disseminated. Costa Rica has opportunity and budget. Heck I’d pay to work setting up coral farms.

Goodyear knew what the tires were made of and the potential harm. I'd say there were highly complicate. They have scientists who formulate the materials. They have to know these things. it's their job.

Pretty sure you can hold both accountable. Both were trying to get rid of a problem they either directly or indirectly created.

Corruption allowed Goodyear to get approval. You can be sure clever Goodyear lawyers looked for and found a way to pass off their responsibility, like any big corporation.

yeah it's not like governments are undermined or at least heavily influenced by the industries ...

All those shoe soles and sandals wasted on an experiment.

I had an uncle who served on her, and was looking to see if anyone commented on the correct pronunciation. Thanks for the little history lesson as well.

It just didn't work where it was put, even the Pacific patch houses life

@@us3rG... so you reckon that marine organisms would attach themselves to rubber if it was dumped in the right place? I must confess that I don't know, but they put tendrils into whatever anchors them, and it's hard putting tendrils into rubber - nomatter where it is!

@@DownhillAllTheWay maybe it shouldn't just be rubber cause they'll need something to snack on if we want them to stick around.

Wow the others must be horrendous.

Tires are a problem we have people dump them on our dirt road and property all of the time.

Well, no. Then you get higher and higher prices....don't penalize the wrong people. If that were done, then just the business suffers. What people do with waste is NOT their fault. As I said earlier, profit will facilitate a cleaner world. Money talks.

@@johnrudy9404 True.

Just add old cars and concrete. Problem solved and more fish habitat . 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

thank you for tuning in! appreciate you sticking around :)

Same here 👍

Health is wealth gd

Cool, what time, and what should I bring?

Gyros for me 😊

burritos are better

Hahaha, okay, and so, what would you propose should be done with these tyres?

Very well said! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!

Ok....you can start now then...

Yeah good question...

Gold plated. He mentioned it when he talked about the "reef" being created.

If they tell you, I'll buy the gas and food and provide the hook and wench if you provide the boat and 30% of the reward

It was painted with lead rich paint. It’s worn away by now.

Agree....we are so overfished, seas polluted we need fish farms...which are horrible for us I wont come near it. To think or believe dumping anything in there has no effect is ignorant on another level. Theres a reason people say there is a need for reefs...too much crap in the water killing them off so the solution is to dump more garbage in? Tires, metals plastics isnt good for any living organism. Glad I dont have much time left on this planet I can remember when fish stores were common, prices were affordable and all was freshly caught.

LOL!

They didnt only dump spend tires also radioactive waste. France even sunk the ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985 that was protesting these activities.

What do you mean?

Fucking up nature

@@charlestaylor3195 Florida every few years always has some shenanigans. Mostly Florida man stuff.

Actually, no IT (Florida) has not lived up to it name. - Ponce de Leon claimed the land for Spain, calling it La Florida, the Spanish name for flowery, covered with flowers, or abounding in flowers. Now if you are referring to - Florida being largely thought of/and confirmed as a disaster state (this tire sunt as one of many examples) - then yes, most would probably agree.

Most socalled "Florida Man" stories are actually transplants. We Native Floridians care for our state's nature.

Yup - the trees like the CO2 that we exhale and they give us back oxygen 😁

​@@PowerfulPlazOfficial he was spamming before then he deleted the comment

Simon Whistler Brain Blaze or 1 of his other 9 channels.

Purge all the tires is wishful thinking. Later, new generations might drown in the radioactive promises of a better future, or whatever else we disposed of in the ocean(s).

It's difficult. What do we do with all our trash?

@@KMF3 idk ?? And now they are saying all the batteries from the electric cars have no where to go but they still plan on making all cars electric by 2050 .i don’t understand its seems one problem after another .it will never stop I guess

@@sandygirl2544 yeah yeah I don't know either

They were supposed to be linked together... but that failed 😞

They think as they are big they can't be touched.. and profit is king..hopefully what's happening with the Post office in the UK will shake a few

Love the pun 😁👍 And yeah that was my thoughts exactly. Almost as if it did not need testing because of the insane amount of tires they just freely got rid of? 🤔

@@accalya271 Good point! Humans can be SO F'ING STUPID! It makes me mad. Name one other species that contributes as much as we do to the systematic destruction of the environment they live in!

Exactly.

I LOLd - you're punny!

@@tomh.648 Glad I made you laugh!

🤣

better than endless sewage

We do that here too. @@prassler

Must have been Trump's idea, not the tires, but crushing baby fish. Quel Horror.

@@mutteringmale Wallowing in Trump Derangement Syndrome is a terrible life choice.......

That's what I was thinking about as I watched the video. What about all of the other countries that have no or relaxed regulations regarding refuse? How much crap (no pun intended) are they adding to the water and atmosphere? 🤔

Concerning the resorts in Mexico, cheap labor in Mexico made it interesting for some well-known American companies to move part or the whole of their operations to Mexico. Because of this, I'd be worried about what exactly is in the ocean if the sewage system leads there. A good way to ascertain the health of a pond is to evaluate the general health of the frog population in that pond. Perhaps the effects of recent industrialization should be studied to assess the health risks of those living with these conditions for extended periods of time. But, if you don't have enough money to promote a health campaigm, such as third world countries, then you can't afford to pay for such a campaigm, and nearly anything goes.

Not if we end it first

Life will still find a way hippie.

You claim we shouldn't play god in these situations but probably are ok with people using surgeries to change their sex, pro abortion, pro ai, pro crisper. All these things are playing god, none of it is natural.

And many other animals will go extinct like the golden tree frog. Which will lead to destruction on Earth

And do not “END IT”

Who would want something everyone else is trying to get rid of?

But more often, one man's trash becomes everyone's trash!

Yes, that sounds about right, and it seems like there's a lot of outrage about the failed artificial reef solution in the comments, but it seems like a lot of the commenters miss the nuance that there were good intentions behind trying to turn those tire bundles into artificial reefs, even if those good intentions eventually ended up paving the way to the hell that needs to be cleaned up as a result because for all the good intentions, the execution for the artificial reefs was half-baked, failing to account for the effect of salt water and ocean currents on the cables holding the tires together for the reef backbones. In retrospect, the ocean side of it was a terrible idea, but it looked like a great idea back in the '60s, and a lot hippies (and a couple megacorps like Goodyear that managed to get in on the act) got to pat themselves on the back at the time for something that looked like it was going to save the world. To be fair to them, it looks like the freshwater equivalent wasn't as terrible an idea, and may have actually done more good than harm compared to the saltwater equivalent.

But unless they are treated they will still leach chemicals into said lakes and rivers, thereby still wreaking havoc on nature. 🤷‍♀️

In termite areas in Australia.. we wish we could protect our houses from being eaten by ddt ... Only thing legal now lasts 5 years before needing expensive re treatment.. DDT lasts centuries.. and can be sprayed directly on humans .. Not good for endangered bird eggs 😢

"They" was Kodak film company. Unless we're talking about different events, the"DDT" was actually CYANIDE SALTS" that were put on barges by the thousands, and dumped in deep water between San Pedro and Catalina Island. Not long after dumping those drums were rusting through. I fished most of my childhood off the old Seal beach barge, and the Huntington Beach pier. I caught as many deformed fish as normal looking ones. At 12 years old I knew better than to eat any of them. 😢

Would you agree?

It’s not just one guy. The producers alternate narrators.

And where are you putting your personal sewage?

I don't have anything for or against them - I just don't know enough about them to form an informed opinion - but to be fair, there's a demand for the cleanup work that they're doing, and almost nobody else out there providing the supply to meet the demand, meaning that 4Ocean can set their own high prices for as long as they like until someone else finds a way to undercut their prices. They need competition, and where there's room for competition, there's opportunity for new entrepreneurs to step in to help meet the demand for the incentive of a lower but still significant profit margin. Where are the competitors? Maybe some of you can do this more cost-effectively but still sustainably?

Or, not dump waste in the ocean(s) to begin with. The "passing the buck" BS by those responsible has got to stop. 4Ocean might have best intentions, but the fact of the matter is they are simply picking up where someone else left off, and offering another possible solution to the problem. The question is whether their solution is actually solving the problem at hand - and in my opinion, they are not. What is being done with the waste (tires) collected?

Exactly! I'm more of a fan of Ocean Cleanup. They place collection vessels in the mouth of the highest-polluting rivers in the world. In this way, they actually prevent plastic waste from entering our oceans. Collected waste is then sent to appropriate recycling facilities. Of course, there is that which cannot be recycled, and that still has to go to a landfill. @@henricoderre

Leadership never changes, am I right?

it was in the 70s and people weren't very environmental smart back then 😓

I wouldn't be calling them brainiacs, but we're on the same page. The whole thing was a sham! All parties involved just wanted the problem gone once and for all.

I'm thinking someone got paid to dispose of a shipload of tires without burning them. Thus This Plan was hatched.

@@henricoderre I feel like they only wanted the credit and not to help

so many people forget to ask that simple question "why"

Intelligent enough to make a mess. Intelligent enough to get others to clean it up. Intelligent enough to still make a profit off of it. Intelligent enough to convince others that the problem is not our problem. Being that intelligent makes us experts. LOL.

To be fair, decisions are made based on current understanding and knowledge. Hindsight is an amazing thing.

Lol no it's not

The warmth doesn't make the water acidic. The carbon dioxide dissolving into the ocean makes the water acidic.

If you try to make coral isn't that playing God?

Dumping tires is doing the work of the devil.

AGREED 💯 %... ALL CABLES WERE REMOVED PRIOR TO HER SINKING FOR 2 REASONS... 1) POLUTION... 2) DIVERS SAFETY, THEIR EQUIPMENT COULD GET CAUGHT ON ANY CABLES AND IT COULD NOT BE USED AS A DIVERS PARADISE ATTRACTION IF LEFT... THUS REMOVED IT ALL FOR BOTH REASONS ...

Want a profit? Make the dumpers pay!

Displacing the problem is not a solution to the problem. Nor can this be called progress. The problem has simply been moved elsewhere for someone else to deal with later.

@henricoderre, as I am titled to my opinion, thus are you equally. The "problem" is that this was approved in the 1st place. I think we would both agree that the driving force behind this Ludacris dump was based heavily on "Let's find the cheapest way possible to sweep these tires under the rug" and far less on actually believing that these tires could have been (in any way fathomable) a positive impact on our oceans. Where we differ is on the "progress" part of this equation. By definition, progress is "forward or onward movement toward a destination"; therefore, in order for there not to (be) progress, we would have to had done nothing (zero) to remove (any) tires from the ocean, but in fact , we have removed hundreds of thousands, hence the "progress". Perhaps you meant simply we have not resolved the problem altogether, in which I would wholeheartedly agree.

Thank you for your service. 🇺🇲

Your tax dollars at work.

I was on LPH-7 Guadacanal end of 1979. M 3/2

oops..1978

It ultimately just creates massive amounts of microplastics, which is arguably worse than air pollution.