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Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates East of Belcher Barge, in the Key Biscayne Artificial Reef Site lay three ships, Belzone One, Two, and Three. This trio lies in a triangular shape. Belzona One is an 85-foot tug boat which was used throughout the Bahamas before she was harmed by a…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates A popular shallow patch reef just east of Sands Cut and Elliott Key. The reef is marked by 3 mooring buoys and is no more than 15 feet deep. Many of the boulder and brain corals are no more than 5 feet below the surface.…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates January 2006, Miami, FL – NOTE: This reef does not yet exist. The Atlantis Reef Project is building a man-made reef off the coast of Miami, Florida (3.25 miles east of Key Biscayne) in the image of The Lost City of Atlantis. Atlantis will be…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The Arratoon Apcar, named after her original owner, Apcar and Company, was built in 1861 at a shipyard in Scotland. She was a 260-foot iron-hulled screw steamer with a beam of 35 feet. On February 17, 1878 while on a voyage from Liverpool, England to…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates This is one of two M60 Army Tanks placed in 48 feet of water in June of 1994 just of Miami Beach. At the same time that the tanks were placed in this location, the Department of Environmental Resource Management (DERM) also placed 1060 tons…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates This is one of two M60 Army Tanks placed in 48 feet of water in June of 1994 just of Miami Beach. At the same time that the tanks were placed in this location, the Department of Environmental Resource Management (DERM) also placed 1060 tons…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates The Andro was a 165 foot luxury yacht built in Germany in 1910. It was constructed mostly of wood, with the classic high bow and rounded-off tail of cruising yachts. During World War II, the electric motors were converted to diesel, machine guns were added,…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates Almirante is a 200-foot steel freighter that was sunk off of Elliot Key in 1974. Although the wreck was originally in immaculate condition with beautiful coral growth, Hurricane Andrew picked her up and dumped her upside down on the bottom in 1992. Since then, sea…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates Built in 1883 at a shipyard in Scotland, the Alicia was a 345-foot iron-hulled, three-masted steamer with a 38-foot beam. The vessel had two decks and displaced 2,800 tons. On April 20, 1905, the Alicia slammed onto the north end of Ajax Reef, just south…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Miami GPS Coordinates Sunk December 1986, The African Queen, a 57-foot concrete boat, now rests in 45 feet of water off Key Biscayne. Waypoint: AFRQU2 Latitude Longitude Degrees 25.7800666666667 -80.0755333333333 Degrees/Minutes N 25 46.804 W 80 4.532 Degrees/Minutes/Seconds N 25 46 48.240 W 80 4 31.920