{"id":9865,"date":"2009-08-14T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T16:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9865"},"modified":"2009-08-14T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T16:17:12","slug":"dorsets-artificial-reef-almost-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9865","title":{"rendered":"Dorset&#8217;s Artificial Reef Almost Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/44804282-surfreefartistsimpr226.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/44804282-surfreefartistsimpr226.jpg','popup','width=226,height=170,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/44804282-surfreefartistsimpr226-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" 44804282 Surfreefartistsimpr226\" \/><\/a>An artificial reef that will reportedly create &#8220;waves of up to 13ft&#8221; off <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&amp;q=Boscombe,+Bournemouth&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;split=0&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=uI2FSp2AAoGgsgPevoCTBw&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">Boscombe, Bournemouth, UK<\/a><\/strong> is supposed to be completed in September 2009 according to a story from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/dorset\/8201626.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/strong>. The reef is made out of &#8220;55 sand-filled geotextile bags which cover the area the size of a football pitch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Shaw Mead<\/strong>, technical director, said: &#8220;Like any major construction project, there are extensive checks to be undertaken before we can say the project is complete. &#8220;We are now starting to make all those checks thoroughly and according to the agreed specification, and I remain confident that we will finish in September as scheduled.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will be interesting to see if this one actually works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/dorset\/8201626.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thisisdorset\" target=\"_blank\">@thisisdorset<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artificial reef that will reportedly create &#8220;waves of up to 13ft&#8221; off Boscombe, Bournemouth, UK is supposed to be completed in September 2009 according to a story from the BBC. The reef is made out of &#8220;55 sand-filled geotextile bags which cover the area the size of a football pitch.&#8221; Shaw Mead, technical director, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9867,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9865\/revisions\/9867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}