I received a very happy e-mail today from Gary Levine, CEO and Founder of the Atlantis Reef Project.  Gary reports that the Army Corps of Engineers has issued final approval for the project, and that the permits are in the mail.  Construction of Atlantis will begin in January of 2006!

For those of you that are not familiar with the project, Atlantis will be the largest man-made reef ever constructed, covering more than 600,000 square feet of ocean floor and using 10,000 cubic yards of cement.  The site is being billed as the first underwater theme park in the world, designed as an artificial reef with concrete statues, columns, domes and arches.

I'm personally very excited about the project and will be covering it as it develops.  And while technically it does not yet exist, I've posted Atlantis as a dive spot in order to provide GPS coordinates, maps, and news updates for the project.  This will be a great diving attraction and it will be right in my backyard!  The site is sure to attract and nurture pelagic life of all kinds. The site will be a no-take zone and will have mooring buoys making it a boat-friendly destination.

On a somewhat different, yet related topic, Willy Volk of Divester will be reporting tomorrow on another Atlantis project (not in any way connected to the Miami Atlantis Project) underway in Cayman Brac.  Check out his Friday is Foots-Day post on Divester.

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	Posted by WillyVolk, Dec-9-2005 @ 07:57 AM CST Hey, Raf. If you want to listen to an interview with Foots in which he discusses his project, check out Divester's podcast: http://www.divester.com/2005/12/09/lost-city-of-atlantis-podcast-interview-with-foots/
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