Tenneco Towers (artificial reefs)

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Tenneco Reef or Tenneco Towers is an artificial reef created by five oil platforms that were donated to the joint venture between the Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in October 1985. Up till then they were used in the Gulf of Mexico for gas and oil exploration, being highly profitable producing several million barrels of oil. It was the Tenneco Oil Corporation itself that brought them here by barge and sank them two miles offshore reachable for dive boats from Miami as well as from Fort Lauderdale. Three Tenneco Oil Platforms lined up from east to west are the only rigs reachable within recreational diving limits with its top decks at depths of 60, 80 and 100 feet respectively. The other two are located in waters of 200 feet deep, mainly for fishery purposes and technical trimix divers. Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida in 1992 and made some of the towers hang over in a 45 degree angle.

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