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Dirty Jobs

Reef Ball Maker

Season 3, Episode 12, Aired Nov 06, 2007

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Mike rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty in order to help create an artificial underwater reef. Reef balls help to revitalize fish and coral populations in areas that have been devastated by pollution. Then Mike goes to Texas to learn how to make soap out of goat milk. Finally, Mike travels to Louisiana to refurbish frack tanks used for water storage.moreless

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Rebecca Bonney

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Madeline Bonney

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Larry Beggs

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Great show on what it takes to build artificial reefs. Mike Rowe makes the whole process understandable and draws Larry out to give a surprising and hilarious performance while emphasizing the importance of reef restoration using Reef Balls.moreless

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By reefball, Nov 13, 2007

Mike Rowe jumps into another "dirty job" and gets high on fiberglass fumes before he is locked by his reef building buddies into a chamber being filled with liquid concrete, rocks and sand.

Detailing some of the more interesting aspects of artificial reef construction, the show reveals insights of the design advances in artificial reef construction to enhance fishing, diving and coral reef rehabilitation.

This show is just plain funny, with Mike & Larry serving up rounds of witty concrete yard humor. The filming was also well done often showing the results of the work in the background making fishermen drool to have the reefs on their favorite fishing site.

One the downside, the show was not able to show much of the underwater results of the work. Understandable in the short format of Dirty Jobs....perhaps we'll get to see a follow up show in the future with Mike getting dirty planting corals.moreless
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- Mike: That's on my business card now: Mike Rowe. He didn't do too bad.
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- Mike: Is it going to smell too girly?
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- Mike: I'm full of amusing dental metaphors.
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- Mike: I'm not brilliant or anything, but I can move rocks.
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- Mike: It looks like some kind of albino chia pet.
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- Mike: Now what is it ultimately that's gonna kill me?
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- In the credits, special thanks was given to Fat Bottom Farm. Pictures from that segment can be seen at http://www.fatbottomnubians.com/.
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- Finding Nemo Mike says, "It took a lot of work to find you a home, Nemo, but it was worth it." This is a reference to the 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo, where Nemo is a clownfish who is lost in the ocean.
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