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TISIRI’s Ed Kalakauskis, Larry Davis, and Joe Kistel met with Carl Blow of the St. Johns County Port Authority in regards to the upcoming reef deployment. The meeting was on the Bridge of Lions looking over the piling removal and barge loading process. The temporary bridge...

Joe Kistel, Ed Kalakauskis, Kistel, Rick Ryals, offshore NE Florida seafloor,offshore NE Florida, NE Florida seafloor, Future reef sites, artificial reef structure, reef structure, future reef locations, large vessel reef deployments, artificial reef endeavors

6-26-10 Another great day to be underwater! TISIRI and the Jacksonville Reef Research team performed two artificial reef survey dives this past weekend.  Both artificial reef sites were located in the NSS, “North Sixteen Seventeen,” area...

6-12-10What a great day it was to be on the water. The Atlantic was glass calm and the air was clear as far as our eyes could see!

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Today’s mission was to visit the concrete artificial reef material placed off Jacksonville this past summer. ...

Ed Kalakauskis and Joe Kistel of TISIRI participated in two research dives this past Saturday (6-5-10) with the Jacksonville Reef Research Team.  The first dive was to a tugboat artificial reef site known as...

TISIRI will have an educational booth at Marine Land's family fun day event.  Sunday June 6th (1-4pm).  Stop by to discuss artificial reefs with TISIRI's Joe Kistel....

 Time:  Friday 6pm - 8pm Location:  Scuba Station Fernandina TISIRI will be at Scuba Station's Dive club social this Friday.  Join us to learn about NE Florida artificial reef marine life, recent artificial reef deployment projects, and some local artificial reef history....

TISIRI’s Joe Kistel participated with the Jacksonville Reef Research team yesterday 5-22-10 on a data collection dive at the Coppage Culvert site. The vessel “Native Diver” arrived at the Coppage Culvert artificial reef site around 10:30am.  Once Captain Steve said we were over the culverts, Jim Davis threw the...

TISIRI’s Joe Kistel participated in a data collection dive with the Jacksonville Reef Research team yesterday 5-22-10.The vessel “Native Diver” arrived at the Coppage Tug artificial reef site around 9am. Once Captain Steve found the tug on his sonar, Luke Lawley threw the mooring buoy chain and rope...

Time: Wednesday, May 26th 7:00pmLocation:Beaches Regional Library 600 Third Street Neptune Beach, FL 32266TISIRI's Joe Kistel will highlight the diversity of artificial reefs off the coast of Jacksonville Florida. We will discuss what is out there, how it got there, and what is living on or in it. Furthermore we...