29 janv. 2016

Why Are These Subway Cars Sinking Into the Ocean?


The next stop is … the Atlantic Ocean? Indeed, for more than 2,500 out-of-service New York City subway cars, the bottom of the ocean is the final destination after they were enlisted for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s artificial reef program. Today, the sunken cars have been populated by marine invertebrates, which bring in crustaceans and fish, and ultimately, fishermen.

-Slate