Bahamas Reef Works
The same hull two years on: upright on sand in 90 ft, encrusted, with a school of jacks over the wheelhouse and a diver for scale.
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What it will look like, and who is building it.

The marine, underwater and yard images are concept renders prepared for the proposal, labelled as such; they will be replaced by photographs as the work happens. The construction photographs are Hammerhead's real work. Tap any image to open it.

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Concept renders

The programme as proposed.

A Reef Ball module two years after placement: sponge, algae and soft coral on the concrete, grunts and snapper inside.
A Reef Ball module two years after placement
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Nassau harbour as it is: three derelict steel hulls at the quay, one already down by the stern with a sheen on the water.
Nassau harbour as it is
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A derelict steel fishing vessel against the harbour wall. Owners gone, fuel and nets still aboard.
A derelict steel fishing vessel against the harbour wall
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Sinking day. Stripped, cleaned and pumped dry, she floods through cut openings and settles stern-first while the tug and barge stand off.
Sinking day
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The same hull two years on: upright on sand in 90 ft, encrusted, with a school of jacks over the wheelhouse and a diver for scale.
The same hull two years on
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Reef Ball moulds in the Nassau yard. The inflatable centre bladder and ball formers make the hollow dome and its holes.
Reef Ball moulds in the Nassau yard
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The casting yard from above: two sizes of Reef Ball curing in rows, moulds along the edge, a telehandler loading the truck.
The casting yard from above
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A diver guides a freshly placed Ultra Ball onto clean sand at 12 m while the barge crane holds the strop.
A diver guides a freshly placed Ultra Ball onto clean sand at 12 m while the barge crane holds the strop
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Hammerhead's crane spud barge lowering a module off south-west New Providence, spuds down, divers in the water.
Hammerhead's crane spud barge lowering a module off south-west New Providence, spuds down, divers in the water
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Coral restoration beside a module: staghorn fragments on a nursery tree, ready to be out-planted onto the concrete.
Coral restoration beside a module
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A FAD: an orange surface buoy with mast, radar reflector and light riding the swell in the Tongue of the Ocean.
A FAD
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Anchor last, at dawn: the concrete block goes over the side of the barge and takes the whole mooring to the bottom.
Anchor last, at dawn
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Hammerhead at work

Photographs from the sites.

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Potter's Cay, Nassau, July 2026: derelict steel and wooden vessels rafted up under the Paradise Island bridge. Photograph, Hammerhead drone.
Potter's Cay, Nassau, July 2026: derelict steel and wooden vessels rafted up under the Paradise Island bridge
Potter's Cay, July 2026, from above: eight hulls side by side, rust, nets and drums on deck, the quay behind. Photograph, Hammerhead drone.
Potter's Cay, July 2026, from above: eight hulls side by side, rust, nets and drums on deck, the quay behind
Potter's Cay, July 2026: the raft of derelicts from the water side. Photograph, Hammerhead drone.
Potter's Cay, July 2026: the raft of derelicts from the water side
Hammerhead Construction: the John's Department Store building on Sixth Terrace, Nassau, steel roof trusses going on, 2026.
the John's Department Store building on Sixth Terrace, Nassau, steel roof trusses going on, 2026
Hammerhead Construction: Restaurant Supply warehouse, East Street South, completed 2024.
Restaurant Supply warehouse, East Street South, completed 2024
Hammerhead Construction: Royal Island, main house and guest cottages, 2026.
Royal Island, main house and guest cottages, 2026
Hammerhead Construction: Harbour Island estate roof, 2025.
Harbour Island estate roof, 2025
Hammerhead Construction: three houses at Old Fort Bay, 2024.
three houses at Old Fort Bay, 2024
The Hammerhead crew on site.
The Hammerhead crew on site
Steel fabrication and erection by Hammerhead's own welders.
Steel fabrication and erection by Hammerhead's own welders

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