ARC Marine offers unique eco-friendly marine construction products with complimentary engineering and scientific services to provide our clients across a broad range of industries with fit for purpose accelerated reef solutions that support the growing and vitally important blue economy.
Every project impacting the marine environment now has the potential to actually enhance the capacity of the ocean to support sustainable fish stocks by embracing the simple concept of using Reef Cubes® to create new artificial reefs that in a very short time will become a robust incubator for all endemic marine species.
Reef Cubes® provide a real opportunity for eco-responsible companies and individuals to genuinely enhance the marine environment in a sustainable way to leave a positive legacy for future generations.
In an effort to restore the tragic state the human race has left our oceans, we decided to knuckle down and dedicate a huge amount of our time and research in coming up with a new and innovative solution, in an effort to rectify some of these ever-growing issues.
The result is Reef Cubes®.
Reef Cubes® are hollow and stackable made entirely out of an eco-friendly concrete mixture with the addition of sustainable reinforcement to ensure they last indefinitely with a positive effect to the oceans. A dovetail keying system was later added to the Reef Cubes® in an effort to make them almost ‘Lego-like’, creating infinite possibilities by stacking formations and creating a dense, complex marine ecosystems which can be tailored for specific species.
Available in 1m3, 0.5m3 and 0.25m3, they are perfect for various applications including scour and cable protection around offshore wind turbines, pipeline and oil rig protection, coastal defence, eco- tourism, anti-trawling deterrents for MPA’s/MCZ’s and establishing underwater reef systems where natural reef has been destroyed.
Our patented moulding system can be shipped anywhere around the world, allowing us to manufacture close to deployment which not only saves on transport costs and CO2 emissions but integrates a local supply chain to provide raw materials.
"Based on the South West Coast of England, ARC Marine design and construct eco-engineered marine habitats. As Eco-engineering specialists, they have a dedicated marine science department, innovative product designers and are a Registered commercial diving contractor.”
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ARC Marine’s crayfish larvae get a new home Today marks the inaugural release of our crayfish larvae in to their new home, in our lab at Brixham! Six weeks ago, we tickled the crayfish babies from their mother’s abdomen in to a small netted holding tank. Now they’re getting an upgrade and we’ve dedicated a…
ARC Marine Constructs and Deploys 5 Intertidal BIO Blocks for the University of Plymouth
In collaboration with the University of Plymouth, ARC Marine has constructed and deployed 5 intertidal BIO Blocks between the National Marine Aquarium and the University’s Marine Station within Plymouth Harbour. The BIO Blocks are 1m x 1m solid concrete cubes with various holes and depressions formed into the cube itself to replicate a rocky intertidal…
ARC Marine wins Marine-I’s New Horizons Award for Technology Innovation 2018
Marine-i, which is part-funded by the EU and was set up to boost Research and Innovation in the marine sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, has announced the winners of its first New Horizons Awards. This industry awards scheme was created to spotlight exceptional business talent and innovation in the marine technology sector in the…
Reef Cubes – the building blocks for saving the ocean
Tom Birbeck and James Doddrell of ARC Marine discuss the importance of marine conservation and how artificial reef construction using concrete could repair and restore marine habitats. In the modern world we now know the importance of conserving our marine environment and the benefits that it brings. Currently, only 1.2% of our oceans are protected; they…
Crayfish Reef at Vobster Quay! Created and Deployed by ARC Marine
In the UK there is only one species of native crayfish, Austropotamobius pallipes or more commonly known as the White Clawed Crayfish. This species is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as endangered as over the last 10 years it has had a reduction between 50%-80% across their range…
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