The ARSBC promotes the creation of artificial reefs to enhance our environment, to create economic gains for local communities, to divert diving activity away from natural or historical underwater sites, and to create a safe and rewarding experience for recreational divers. To aid the advancement of the benefits of artificial reefs, we present various resources and information gathered by our experience.

Environmental Regulations - Canada
The standards which were created by Environment Canada, and revised with the experiences gained from Artificial Reef creation in British Columbia, have been adopted around the world, and even by the United Nations.

• National Guidance: Best Management Practices for Preparing Vessels Intended to Create Artificial Reefs

• London Convention and Protocol - Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes

• Monitoring and evaluating rockfish conservation areas in British Columbia

• Environment Canada's "Disposal at Sea" web site

• Clean-Up Standard for Ocean Disposal of Vessels (pdf document)    Revision 3, December 2007

Information on Artificial Reefs

• Sea Life Flourishing On Vandenberg Wreck Off Keys

• Sidney Pier Artificial Reef Science (SPARS), Department of Fisheries & Oceans web site

• Artificial Reef Introduction, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Published Articles and Conference Papers

• Comparative study on the fish assemblages in natural and artificial reefs in Tuticorin, Gulf of Mannar, Southeast Coast of India. Publication by Dr. R. Ramkumar, Assistant Professor, Centre for Scientific and Applied Research
  NOTE: items 13/14/15 on the context page which relate to artificial reefs.

• http://www.nova.edu/ocean/ncri/projects/shipwrecks/, May, 2008.

• Reshaping the Seas: the ecotechnology of artificial reefs, William Alevizon, Soundings, in Ocean Realm magazine (date uncertain).

• Fish assemblages on sunken vessels and natural reefs in southeast Florida, USA, P.T. Arena, L.K.B. Jordan, R.E. Spieler, Hydrobiologia, 2007, pp 157-171.

• Recycling Economics from the Perspective of Artificial Reef Creation, by Tex Enemark, President, Artificial Reef Society of B.C., remarks made to the Ship Recycling Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 2001 (Adobe PDF file).

• The Tourism Aspects of Artificial Reefs: The Nine Fundamental Lessons, by Tex Enemark, Vice-President, Artificial Reef Society of B.C., 1999 (Adobe PDF file).

• Artificial Reefs in British Columbia, Canada, by Anthony T. Jones and Richard W. Welsford, Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia, 1997.