{"id":243643,"date":"2026-09-04T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/in-1973-former-army-diver-eric-shaw-began-dropping-donated-boats-off-gibraltar-over-30-vessels-later-the-sandy-seabed-had-become-a-fish-nursery"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:07:05","slug":"in-1973-former-army-diver-eric-shaw-began-dropping-donated-boats-off-gibraltar-over-30-vessels-later-the-sandy-seabed-had-become-a-fish-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/in-1973-former-army-diver-eric-shaw-began-dropping-donated-boats-off-gibraltar-over-30-vessels-later-the-sandy-seabed-had-become-a-fish-nursery","title":{"rendered":"In 1973, former Army diver Eric Shaw began dropping donated boats off Gibraltar; over 30 vessels later, the sandy seabed had become a fish nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-1973-former-army-diver-eric-shaw-began-dropping-donated-boats-off-gibraltar-over-30-vessels-later-the-sandy-seabed-had-become-a-fish-nursery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1973, former Army diver Eric Shaw looked at Gibraltar\u2019s largely sandy seabed and saw an opportunity to give marine life somewhere to settle, hide and breed. His solution was unusual: use unwanted boats to build an artificial reef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1973, former Army diver Eric Shaw looked at Gibraltar\u2019s largely sandy seabed and saw an opportunity to give marine life somewhere to settle, hide and breed. His solution was unusual: use unwanted boats to build an artificial reef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}