TISIRI’s Joe Kistel participated with the Jacksonville Reef Research team yesterday 5-22-10 on a data collection dive at the Coppage Culvert site.  The vessel “Native Diver” arrived at the Coppage Culvert artificial reef site around 10:30am.  Once Captain Steve said we were over the culverts, Jim Davis threw the mooring buoy chain and rope over [...]

TISIRI’s Joe Kistel participated in a data collection dive with the Jacksonville Reef Research team yesterday 5-22-10. The vessel “Native Diver” arrived at the Coppage Tug artificial reef site around 9am. Once Captain Steve found the tug on his sonar, Luke Lawley threw the mooring buoy chain and rope over board. Kistel immediately jumped in [...]

Time: Wednesday, May 26th 7:00pm Location: Beaches Regional Library 600 Third Street Neptune Beach, FL 32266 TISIRI’s Joe Kistel will highlight the diversity of artificial reefs off the coast of Jacksonville Florida. We will discuss what is out there, how it got there, and what is living on or in it. Furthermore we will highlight [...]

Time: Tuesday, June 1st 7pm Location: Scuba Tiger 1635-6 Wells Rd. Orange Park FL 32073 Offshore Jacksonville has an abundant amount of diving opportunities thanks to artificial reefs. Joe Kistel and members of TISIRI will provide an artificial reef presentation describing these opportunities. From large steel ship vessels to gator bowl press boxes, the variety [...]

TISIRI was featured in the news this past Thursday. Joe Kistel was interviewed and discussed the latest update on the “Spike,” a Jacksonville artificial reef. See the clip below.