Business Alabama profiles David Walter and the family-run company he built in Orange Beach. The story follows Walter Marine's shift from deploying available materials to manufacturing purpose-built concrete structures with embedded Florida limestone.
The article covers the company's Super Reefs, precision deployment equipment and nearshore snorkeling projects. It also describes how feedback from charter captains shaped the designs over decades of field use. That experience helped Walter Marine expand into public reef programs, custom structures and wave attenuation work along the Gulf Coast.
