One of the biggest marine disasters in history didn’t come from an oil spill or a shipwreck, but from something surprisingly ordinary: old rubber tires. This is the story of the Osborne Reef, one of the most famous environmental failures ever created in the ocean. The Osborne Reef was an artificial reef project built off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. In the early 1970s, local organizers and Broward County officials had what seemed like a brilliant idea. They wanted to solve two pro