The Almuñécar Town Hall is seeking permission from the Junta de Andalucia to sink wooden boats in La Herradura Bay as diving attractions.

First Councillor of Herradura, Juan José Ruiz Joya, explained that they had held a meeting with a provincial delegate from the Junta in Granada, who had “been quite receptive” of the project.

However, the said delegate, María Inmaculada Oria López, asked for a formal project to be presented so that it could be officially studied.

The project envisages wooden boats to be sunk about 200 metres from the beach, which would not only provide additional underwater attractions for divers, but would also protect the seabed from illegal fishing activities; i.e., bottom trawling nets.

It will be no easy task to bring all the different administrations together on this, but the idea of making a kind of artificial reef from safe, man-made objects that easily rot away without harming the environment is attractive

Editorial Comment: No doubt we will receive a press release from the CA/PA (Benavides) pointing out that this idea was theirs and that the governing party is presenting this and other projects as their own… and they would be right.

The other ‘re-inaguration’ of a previously existing idea was the Diving School in La Herradura, which had originally been inaugurated during a Benavides administration.

(News: Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)