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When New York retires its subway trains, they end up sleeping with the fishes. But that’s okay. It turns out that train cars are pretty good for the fishes, and sea life in general. Stripped down to their metal frames, the cars become a hot bed for coral, further bolstering the ocean food chain. What seems like garbage instead becomes a human-made habitat for undersea creatures.

Photographer Stephen Mallon captured this process, capturing what happens to old G trains flung into the ocean. This so-crazy-it-actually-works idea is helping to repopulate vital barrier reefs by providing coral the flat surface they need to grow and prosper into large colonies.

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An excellent re-use for old subway cars.

 

Some eco-purists object to such re-purposing, claiming that such projects are using the oceans as a garbage dump. I don't agree with such arguments.

 

My way of judging the utility of such projects is to ask if the fish like it. From available evidence, it seems like they do, and those cars attract a lot of marine life around what would be empty, sparsely-populated sand.

 

As far as I'm concerned, case closed.

Originally Posted by Mister_Lee:

An excellent re-use for old subway cars.

 

Some eco-purists object to such re-purposing, claiming that such projects are using the oceans as a garbage dump. I don't agree with such arguments.

 

My way of judging the utility of such projects is to ask if the fish like it. From available evidence, it seems like they do, and those cars attract a lot of marine life around what would be empty, sparsely-populated sand.

 

As far as I'm concerned, case closed.

The only problem is typical of subway denizens everywhere, they are heard to be complaining "They got us packed in here like Sardines" *groan*

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