TPW TV -- TEXAS CLIPPER: Review the long and illustrious 
career of the Texas Clipper on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife 

From World War II transport vessel ... to luxury liner ... to 
floating classroom ... the Texas Clipper's career above 
water spanned six decades. This month Texas Parks and 
Wildlife Television airs a special half-hour program about 
the Clipper, which has a new life as an artificial reef. 
Producer, Bruce Biermann.

On November seventeenth in 2007, the Texas Clipper went to 
its final port of call -- seventeen miles off the coast of South 
Padre Island. Man alive. It took forever to get her to start 
taking on water; and then when she started taking on water, 
she rolled and went in. Only thing that's left is the marker 
buoy. And today it has more passengers on it than it's ever had. 
The fish just keep coming in, they breed there, and they got 
places to hide. And the worms and the shellfish and all that 
sort of stuff come in and give them a natural food base. 
This Clipper is going to be fantastic for this area. It really is. 
It not only helps the ocean, the ecosystem out there, it also 
encourages activities and fun for man: scuba diving, sport 
fishing ... and just the knowledge that we're helping increase the 
ecological life in the ocean. :54

Thanks, Bruce. Go to passporttotexas.org for a listing of 
PBS stations that air the series.

That's our show ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti.











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