Florida Dumped 2 Million Tires Into The Ocean. 50 Years Later, What They Found Was Shocking!

Florida Dumped 2 Million Tires Into The Ocean. 50 Years Later, What They Found Was Shocking!

In the 1970s, a group in Fort Lauderdale had what sounded like a genius idea: take two million scrap tires piling up on land and sink them onto a coral reef to bring marine life flooding back. It was government-approved, cheered on by scientists, and it turned into one of the worst man-made underwater disasters in American history. In this video you'll find out why the science behind artificial reefs actually made sense, the single overlooked chemistry mistake that doomed the whole project, how the disaster spread hundreds of miles to other states, and the fifty-year, multi-million-dollar cleanup still going on today. You'll also see how this same mistake played out in France, off Key Biscayne, and even with a sunken warship, and the uncomfortable question hiding underneath all of it: what happens when cleaning up pollution becomes more profitable than preventing it?

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