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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…

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…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The Spirit of Miami is a 727 jet sunk in the Key Biscayne Artificial Reef Site by DERM (Department of Environmental Resource Management) on September 8, 1993, in 82 feet of water. In contrast to the usual explosive technique of sinking ships, she was simply…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates Rio Miami was featured on a 1989 episode of 20/20 where Hugh Downs detonated the ship for sinking and dove the site less than 24 hours later. The remote-controlled detonation with which Downs sunk the ship was the first of this type to be used.…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates Ben Mastkoff, Director of the Artifical Reef program for the Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM), designed the pyramids from sections of radio towers once used by Radio Mambi. The nineteen steel and concrete radio towers were sunk in 1988. Ben’s goal was to attract…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The Proteus is a 220′ freighter sunk in the Key Biscayne Artificial Reef Site on January 24, 1985. This site is one of the shallower wrecks dives in South Florida, resting in only 72′ of water with at least 30′ of relief (top deck is…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The 165-foot freighter, Princess Britney, was donated by Customs and Border Protection to the Miami-Dade Artificial Reef Program and now lies 90 feet below the surface of the water. She lies about 3.5 miles off the coast of Key Biscayne. This ship was seized in…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The Patricia is a steel tug that was sunk in 1990. The tug is mostly intact with a profile rising 20 feet from the sandy bottom at 53 feet. This wreck is only 100 feet from the Karline. Also close by are the Radio Tower…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates This is an unnamed fantastic spot on the south end of the patch reefs which are just east of Broad Creek, in the Biscayne National Park. This spot has two mooring buoys, and is sometimes referred to as simply Ball Buoys Reef. Here you’ll find…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates This ship was used during the widening of the Panama Canal in Central America. The vessel’s engines were converted from electric to diesel to be used as a floating mechanic school. However, funding decreased and the boat went unused for 5 years until the State…