A 300-foot Maldives beach was shrinking slowly; then MIT researchers built an artificial reef that helped the shoreline grow by 90 feet and double in size
A 300-foot beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was slowly eroding away. In order to solve the problem, a Marriott resort on the island experimented with something different. Instead of dredging sand, they used an artificial reef designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers to repair the beach.Coastal Assembly, a startup that spun…
