A decommissioned small passenger plane seen winched into the water during the project. Decommissioned aircrafts are winched into the water off the town of Saida in Lebanon as part of a conservation project to create an artificial reef. The sea floor here is barren, so the idea is to provide fish and invertebrates with permanent structures to give them a place to breed and shelter in order to increase fish and marine life stocks for fishing and tourism.

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Keywords: aircraft, artificial, barge, conservation, creating, decommissioned, project, reef, sea, water, winched