Okaloosa County officials have been sinking ships and dropping concrete barriers and other structures that will create new homes for fish and other marine life.
If you try to think of somewhere calm and peaceful, you might conjure up an image of an idyllic sandy beach. But in South India, many of its much-loved beaches are anything but secure.
A nonconventional artificial reef that uses concrete with natural materials, instead of old cars and tires, could be proposed to the West Maui community later this year as a way to combat coastal erosion.