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An artificial reef for marine life consisting of a system of flexible, buoyant geometric bodies. The bodies are each walled members formed of a plastics material and having a large plurality of holes or openings therein. Each of the bodies is buoyant and is anchored on the sea floor via respective v

An artificial reef for marine life consisting of a system of flexible, buoyant geometric bodies. The bodies are each walled members formed of a plastics material and having a large plurality of holes or openings therein. Each of the bodies is buoyant and is anchored on the sea floor via respective variable length cable so that the bodies float within the water at various elevations. The bodies may be formed of the same size and shape or different sizes and shapes, with the openings therein also being of the same shape or different shapes and sizes. In certain embodiments the bodies are telescoped within each other, and in other embodiments the bodies are interconnected together in a manner such that their axes are in a nonparallel relationship to each other.

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An artificial reef for location in a body of water to form a haven for marine life and into and out of which fish can swim, said reef comprising a plurality of walled enclosures, anchoring means for maintaining at least two of said walled enclosures at different elevations within said body of water

An artificial reef for location in a body of water to form a haven for marine life and into and out of which fish can swim, said reef comprising a plurality of walled enclosures, anchoring means for maintaining at least two of said walled enclosures at different elevations within said body of water and for permitting said at least two of said walled enclosures to move independently with respect to each other, each of said enclosures being buoyant and including an interior volume defined by a wall portion in the form of a plastic mesh fabric having a large plurality of openings therein, each of said openings being uninterrupted by any impervious member or surface and being sufficiently large to enable fish to swim therethrough into and from said interior volume, each of said enclosures being anchored by said anchoring means so that it floats completely below the surface of said body of water below a surface region whereat wave propagation takes place.