Save the Coral: Dump a Tank

Our peculiar image of the week learns us that what is good for the environment doesn't always look good for the environment.

The adieu of this disused tank into the Gulf of Thailand last week looks like a blatantly disgraceful act of dumping waste. Yet all was done in the name of ecology. Trucks and 25 old Army tanks were dropped into the ocean to form artificial corals hoped to improve the ecosystem's fish stocks.

Now lets hope some future archeologist that might find the tanks won't mistake the site for an ancient war zone flooded by the trenches of global warming.

Via the Mirror.