For fear, that after they'd pass the island inhabitants might make a sneak attack from behind, Alexander ordered the new Tyre to be destroyed.
Without boats, the army looked around and got the brilliant idea to take all the rubble and debris that was scattered about and throw it into the sea, to form a causeway to the island.
And that causeway was so well built, that it still exists today, turning the island into a peninsula. Even today, a portion of the newly rebuilt city (Tyre III?) extends onto the causeway. You can go to Tyre and see the debris the causeway is made out of. This too, is documented in history.
Every last bit of rubble and debris, even the dust itself was thrown into the sea to build a smooth level surface out to the island, leaving the ancient site of Tyre, flat as a rock.
At the site of ancient Tyre, fishermen spread their nets... to let them dry. And it's still used for that even today. Verse 14 holds true to this very day.
Who would have known that the city was going to be destroyed? And then that 200 years later all the rubble and debris would be thrown into the sea? And that after that the site would be used for nets?
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