India, Oct. 27 -- An abandoned freighter sat in the Miami River for a decade. Then, on November 18, 2025, it was deliberately sunk. The 227-foot ship, named the Borocho, is now on the seafloor about nine miles off Martin County, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) news release. Today it's known as the Boo McCulley Reef. Here's how an old ship got a second life.

The Borocho was not built to be a reef. The freighter's former owner let it deteriorate, and it remained in the Miami River for 10 years, the release states. After a derelict vessel investigation, the agency contracted Resolve Marine Group, Inc. to remediate, relocate, and reef the ship. The work was funded by the FWC's Derelict Vessel program in...