Mike Prangley of Jacksonville's First Coast News discusses recent lionfish sightings with TISIRI's Joe Kistel. Lionfish are not new to the waters of north east Florida but this is the first reported TISIRI sighting in the area since 2009. Lionfish sightings are a concern because lionfish are not known to have natural predators in non-native Atlantic waters,they are aggressive eaters, and reproduce at early ages. The fear is these animals will severally deplete populations of other native fish and invertebrate species.
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Action News Jacksonville Lionfish Invasion Story
TISIRI's Joe Kistel discusses lionfish encountered offshore St. Augustine Florida with Action News Jacksonville.
Read MoreLionfish encountered offshore St. Augustine Florida
On each dive divers reported encounters with lionfish. This is somewhat of a surprise as TISIRI divers have not encountered lionfish offshore North East Florida for the past few years. The pictures above are proof of the encounters.
Read MoreCalling Jacksonville Scuba Divers, Fishermen, and the curious
Join us March 29th at 7pm for a look into the underwater world of Jacksonville Florida. TISIRI will introduce offshore scuba diving and fishing destinations of North East Florida, the wild animals living there, and how some of these reefs systems came to be. Furthermore we...
Read MoreTISIRI's New Dive Boat
TISIRI's New Dive Boat
Read MoreTISIRI's Reefs Revealed featured in Coastal Angler
TISIRI's Reefs Revealed project is featured in the March 2012 Coastal Angler Magazine. The article describes how the Reefs Revealed project is providing detailed imagery and data of North East Florida's Reefs. See the article by Joe Kistel by clicking on the image below and search for page 36.
Read MoreMOSH Water Educational Festival A Success
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Today we found out that children really like to win shark teeth! Representatives from TISIRI and REEF.org created and facilitated a game for this year's Water Education Festival at the Museum of Science and History. See the...
Read MoreToday we found out that children really like to win shark teeth! Representatives from TISIRI and REEF.org created and facilitated a game for this year's Water Education Festival at the Museum of Science and History. See the...
Intruder Aircraft Reef added to Reefs Revealed
East of St. Augustine Florida, in about 85 feet of water, lies the remains of several Grumman A-6 Intruder aircraft. These fuselages are not the results of the jets crashing into the ocean, but in fact were placed here on purpose. Yes these aircraft bodies were deployed in the ocean to create marine habitat.
Read MoreGiant Jellyfish Encounter
Fall 2011While collecting video and photos of the intruder aircraft reef site off the coast of Saint Augustine Florida, TISIRI's Joe Kistel was able to capture this footage and pictures of a very large moon Jellyfish. Even though Jellyfish have stinging nematocysts on their tentacles, used to...
Read MoreHappy Holidays from TISIRI
2011 has been an exciting and busy year for TISIRI. Some of our efforts included marine habitat creation projects, reef surveys, marine media production, and the introduction of our Reefs Revealed project. Below is a the picture from our 2011 holiday card.
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