stackyFACTSThose cheerful floating markers preventing shipwrecks are chained to the abyss. To stop violent ocean currents from dragging them away, buoys are tethered to deeply submerged, brutally heavy cast-concrete blocks that essentially sink deep into the seafloor mud and refuse to move.
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