Category: Key West
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Marquesas Reef Line
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Key West GPS Coordinates The Marquesas Keys are ten mangrove islands in shallow waters. Six miles south of the Marquesas Keys in a continuation of the Atlantic reef line which runs east to west called the Marquesas Reef Line. This line contains caves in depths of 30 to…
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Joe’s Tug
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Key West GPS Coordinates By the sound of her name, you would think “Joe’s Tug” was actually a tugboat. In fact, she is an old steel hulled shrimper originally destined as an artifical reef off the coast of Miami. Originally, this 75-foot tug sank at the pier in…
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Eastern Dry Rocks
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Key West GPS Coordinates Marked at the west end by a steel beam, this Sanctuary Preservation Area (SPA) is located two miles due east of Sand Key and six miles south of Key West. The SPA is .1 square nautical miles and is a no-take zone. On the…
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Cayman Salvager
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Key West GPS Coordinates The Cayman Salvager now lies one mile southwest of the Nine-Foot Stake. This 187-foot steel-hulled buoy tender was built in 1937 for Coast Guard usage and was later used as a cable layer and for freighting. The US Government seized this vessel because she…
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Aquanaut
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Key West GPS Coordinates The Aquanaut is a 55-foot long wood-hulled tug that sank in 1967. The boat sits upright at a depth of 75 feet. The tug is intact and in near perfect condition. It rests on the bottom near the edge of the Gulfstream. A variety…
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All Alone
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Key West GPS Coordinates In 90 feet of water on the Ten-Fathom Ledge lies All-Alone, the hull of a 75-foot tugboat. The hull is split and provides a habitat for sea life. The area is known for the large amounts of fish that inhabit the site inclusive of…
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Alexander’s Wreck
Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Key West GPS Coordinates The wreck known as “Alexander’s Wreck” was originally the US Navy destroyer escort “USS Amesbury.” The remains of this steel-hull US Naval vessel now lie in 25 feet of water five miles west of Key West. This vessel was a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship…