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Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates The original USS Alligator was the last remaining example of the five 12-gun schooners used to work against the slave trade and piracy on the ocean. This ship was initially built in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston in 1820. Although the ships first tasks…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates Tres Puentes went down as part of the 1733 Spanish Galleon wrecks. A hurricane forced Tres Puentes along with 21 other ships on to the Florida Keys. Prior to the storm, the captain of the fleet had directed the ships to change course but to…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates About three-quarters of a mile off of Plantation Point, The Rocks range in depth from 8 to 12 feet. This dive is just two and a half miles due east of Windley Key and is noted for its underwater coral garden. Snorkelers often utilize this…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates This Galleon was part of the 1733 wreck that forced 21 ships on to the Florida Keys. These ships were attempting to bring silver pesos from Havana when they were advised to change route to avoid an oncoming storm. This advisory did not come soon…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates In 35 feet of water just off Islamorada, about 1 mile east of Little Conch Reef, the San Jose is a Galleon-class Spanish ship from the Silver Plate Fleet of 1733. This 40 cannon ship was attempting to bring treasure from Spain to the New…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates Located six miles east of Windley Key, Little Conch Reef spreads a half mile across a flat sand bed inside the inner reef. This site is just south of Conch Reef and is a great place for shallower diving. Average depth of the area ranges…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates The Lerri Galleon was part of the 1733 wreck that forced 21 ships on to the Florida Keys. These ships were attempting to bring silver pesos from Havana when they were advised to change route to avoid an oncoming storm. This advisory did not come…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates Located in Upper Matecumbe key in 18 feet of water, The Herrera is named after a Merchant who became stranded in the Florida Keys in 1733. While attempting to bring silver pesos from Havana along with 21 other ships, Herrera was hit by a hurricane…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates Hen & Chickens is a group of patch reefs whose coral formations from the air appear to radiate outwards from the center like a mother hen surrounded by chickens. What you really see is a beautiful patch reef in shallow water; great for diving and…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Islamorada GPS Coordinates Located 75 yards southeast of Little Conch Reef, this wreck is a large pile of ballast stones. This ship belonged to the Silver Plate Fleet in 1733 which was lost in a hurricane and is roughly one mile away from the San Jose wreck. The…