Designed Artificial Reefs

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Popular Designed Reef Types

Multi-Use (Fish/Coral)
Reef BallsTM
Layer Cakes
 DERM Modules
Artificial Reef Ecosystems

Fish Attractors
Fish HavensTM
Reef Maker Reefs

Coral Conservation
Attachment Adapter
EcoReefsTM
Bio-RocksTM

Submerged Breakwaters/
Erosion Control
Reef Beach Breakwater Units
Breakwater Int'l

Surfing
ASR Surfing Reefs

Artistic  Reefs
Cozumel
Guardian of the Reef
Underwater Scuptures Grenada

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ArtificialReef.com is a watchdog organization chartered to promote responsible artificial reef use.  We offer our Habitat Guard™ certification for Artificial Reefs which means very simply that an artificial reef is built and deployed conforming to these minimum standards.
  • Materials used will last at least as long as the biology it is intended to support.
  • The artificial reef has been engineered or demonstrated to remain stable to the standards of a 50 year storm event or are suitably anchored to achieve this standard.
  • Materials used do not contain known toxins.
  • Deployment of material is on a legally permitted site and/or approved by legally responsible caretakers..

We also promote the use of designed artificial reefs and aim to promote fair trade practices, exchanges of idea, and linkages to the scientific and reef manager community with designed artificial reef companies.  

Designed Artificial Reefs are structures SPECIFICALLY designed to achieve specific goals for use as artificial reefs.  This site is dedicated to that specific subset of artificial reef technology.  

We offer a FREE  Google Earth KMZ File showing all Habitat Guard™ certified designed artificial reef projects by categories including links to site characteristics, project descriptions, construction and monitoring photos, news articles, scientific studies and other important information about the chosen projects.

To have your site certified and added, please send relevant information to artificialreef@gmail.com.  

Google Earth Maplet -Requires installation of Google Earth plug in but allows you to access all our date from the web. You can even send most reef site coordinates directly to your GPS or cell phone! This is new as of December 2008 and we are working out some bugs so be patient with the loading time and beta bugs.

See Our Data LIVE on Google Maps
(Paste the URL below into search bar of Google Maps
http://www.artificialreef.com/googledata/Artificial%20Reefs.kml)
This view gives you the ability to navigate our data by project type such as coral planting, breakwater, diving, fishing, ecological etc.

FULL DATABASE (KML)

Artificial Reefs are classified by the follow sub-categories to view what is important to you.  Once the database is loaded, just check the categories you want to see in Google Earth and de-check those you don't want to see.

  • DESIGNED ARTIFICIAL REEFS 

    • Biological Enhancement

      • Diving/Rec. Fishing

        • International

        • Florida

          • Panhandle

          • Sarasota

          • Manatee

          • Other Florida

        • New Jersey

        • North Carolina

        • Georgia

        • South Carolina

        • New York

        • Texas 

        • Alaska

        • Michigan

      • Estuary

      • Memorial Reefs

      • Tourism (Hotels/Cruise/Subs)

      • Under Docks

      • School/Educational

      • Under Fishing Piers

      • Conservation

      • Coral Planting/Propagation

      • Kelp Fast holds

      • Oyster Reefs

      • Scientific Study

      • Red Mangrove Planting

      • Artesian Fisheries

      • Commercial Fisheries

      • Mitigation

      • Channel Marker Reefs

  • Physical Enhancement

    • Beach Erosion Control

      • Submerged Breakwaters

    • Artistic/Sculpture Reefs

  • Permitted Sites

    • Florida

    • Georgia & SC

    • North Carolina

  • 3 day Predicted Tides (US Only)

  • NOAA Sea Surface Temperatures, bleaching, doldrums, hot spots and more!

Some of Our Website Sponsors:

Reef Ball Foundation
Charitable Division
(Grants, Education)


Eternal Reefs, Inc.

The Reef Beach
 Company
(Designed Reefs for  submerged breakwaters)

Reef Innovations