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Hammerhead Reef
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates Beginning a half-mile south of Port Everglades, Hammerhead Reef stretches for 2.5 miles and ends at the Dania Pier. The base of the reef lies in 80 feet of water on the eastern side and in 60 feet on the western side. The reef…
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Hall Of Fame Moorings
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates Located six miles north of the Port Everglades Cut, the Hall of Fame Moorings consist of a series of ledges that are marked by nine buoys. Depths at this site begin at 15 feet and reach down to 30 feet. The ledges provide a…
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Guy Harvey
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates The Guy Harvey was a 185-foot Haitian freighter originally christened the M/V Lady Kimberly. The ship was built in Holland in 1957, where she spent her last years carrying island cargo to and from Haiti. In 1997, with financial help from renowned marine artist…
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Donal G. McAllister
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates Sunk June 23, 1998 as part of the Broward County Artificial Reef Program, this 101-foot former New York harbor boat now lies in 75 feet of water and rises 30 feet off the sea floor. Juvenile anemones, sponges and soft corals thrive on the…
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Copenhagen
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates The steamer, Copenhagen, was built in England in 1898. This ship was carrying almost 5,000 tons of coal and 26 crew members when she ran aground in 1900. The ship’s captain, William Jones, was trying to direct the ship to stay off shore by…
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Capt. Dan Wreck
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates The Hollyhock was a 175-foot U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender built in March of 1937 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1959, she was moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she was used as an ice breaker in Lake Michigan. She later served in Miami, Florida —…
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Cape Gull / Robert Edmister Reef
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates This 95-foot Coast Guard Cutter was built in Maryland in 1953. She was used as a search and rescue vessel and to intercept drug smuggling operations. In 1984 she caught fire and was damaged. The vessel was sold at auction to Dale Scutti, a…
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Barracuda Reef
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Fort Lauderdale GPS Coordinates Surrounded by 29 mooring buoys–the first markers to be installed in Broward County–Barracuda reef is an excellent spot for fish-watching. Located a half-mile out from the John U. Lloyd State Recreational Area, this reef lies in 35 feet of water. The site has a…
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Tortuga
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The Tortuga is sometimes called the Fair Game ship because its explosion and sinking in 1995 was used as the final scene in the movie Fair Game, starring Cindy Crawford and William Baldwin. The 165 foot steel ship is a part of the Pflueger Artificial…
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Tacoma
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The Tacoma is a 165-foot steel freighter that was sunk in 2002. This wreck remains in good condition and intact. Big game fish are often found on this dive because it is rarely visited. The dive goes down to 120 feet. Tacoma was seized as…