BEAUFORT, S.C., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The South Carolina Army National Guard reports that it dropped 36 military vehicles into waters off the Atlantic coast earlier this month in order to create reefs that will attract ocean life and tourism.
Since 1997, the state's National Guard has worked in partnership with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources to create man-made reefs from obsolete tanks and armored personnel carriers, which are cleaned and demilitarized before being dumped into the ocean.