Delaware dropped 714 retired New York subway cars into the Atlantic 16 miles offshore — the old steel cars became a reef where mussels, oysters and other life now provide up to 400 times more food for fish than the bare seafloor around them

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Tue, 1 September 2026
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  Delaware dropped 714 retired New York subway cars into the Atlantic 16 miles offshore — the old steel cars became a reef where mussels, oysters and other life now provide up to 400 times more food for fish than the bare seafloor around them
  What started as garbage disposal became one of the ocean's most productive ecosystems, proving that human waste and marine life can thrive together.