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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Large Nurse Shark Encounter
TISIRI divers Kalakauskis and Kistel encounter a large female nurse shark while collected pictures and video of Taylor Concrete Reef offshore St. Augustine Florida for TISIRI's Reefs Revealed project. Watch in the video below how the shark almost runs completely into Kistel while he is recording.
Read MoreTISIRI Featured In Coastal Angler's October Issue
TISIRI's Joe Kistel describes near shore reef development efforts in the October issue of Coastal Angler Magazine. Click on the image below to view the article on page 29.
Read MoreDiving St. Augustine's Desco Reef
9-24-11Divers visited the Desco Shrimp Boat Wreck offshore St. Augustine to collect imagery for TISIRI's "Reefs Revealed" efforts. Below are some of the images captured.[nggallery id=76]Visability is hardly ever perfect for underwater imagery offshore north east Florida but the pictures above provide detail of the structures and...
Read MoreMoon JellyFish Offshore St. Augustine Florida
9-24-11Moon jellyfish were a common sight offshore St, Augustine Florida today. TISIRI Divers were conducting "Reefs Revealed" photography and video efforts at various artificial reefs and spotted these creatures at every dive location. See a few pictures of the interesting animals captured by TISIRI marine photographer...
Read MoreCoastal Clean-up a Success
9-18-2011TISIRI, Divetalking.com, and JRRT join efforts in the international Coastal Clean-up event. The goal of the day was to clean trash and litter debris from the Little Jetties park near Mayport Florida. The participants did just that and found a surprising amount, and variety, of trash...
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