DuraReef (patent pending), with inventor Buck Buchenroth, pause prior to plunging into the crystalline waters of South Hole Sound, Little Cayman B.W.I. This installation site is connected to the pier where the Southern Cross Club Fishing and Dive Resort moor their fleet of fishing boats. For this installation, the DuraReef panel was constructed with a sculpted back and an inset-mounting frame.

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BEFORE This pylon is one future mounting location of DuraReef. This photo was taken one day prior to the installation of....
AFTER Eighteen hours after the installation, a rat pack of snappers swims in to investigate DuraReef....

Stainless steel chain encircles the pylon and then is lag bolted at the correct elevation to allow DuraReef to....
Here, school master snappers use the notch of the sculpted back and stainless structural rods of the mounting frame as....

Doing it the diamond diver way, installation supervisor Henri Fourie takes advantage of an extremely low tide cycle to....
Look through the constantly shifting fish that call DuraReef their home and notice the mounting chain which....

Tiny hermit crabs join this sculptural spray crab as they scour the surface of DuraReef....
DuraReef offers a coral flower as home to the hermits. Note the macro detail of this functioning art.

Three days after installation, it’s fast tails or fish scales as reef fish of all kinds swim for shelter by darting around....
It can get a little crowded as seen in this picture of snappers and chub hanging out “indoors” attempting to avoid being...