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View of Hawk Channel from Marathon or Islamorada at sunset. Hawk Channel is a shallow, elongated basin and navigable passage along the Atlantic coast of the Florida Keys.The channel makes up a smaller portion of the Florida Platform from Key West to the southernmost point of Key Biscayne and lies between the Keys and the Florida Reef Tract to the southeast. [1]
Florida may well hold the record for the number of pleasure boats used by sport fishermen, jet skiers, wind-surfers, power boaters, sail boaters, water-skiers and scuba divers. The Florida Keys contain the only coral reefs in the continental United States, making it a haven for fish and coral. These same reefs are hazards to navigation.
The Key West Bight, now known as the Key West Historic Seaport, is the site of a 200-year-old global maritime trade base in Key West, Florida, USA. [1] A bend in the shoreline on the northwest side of the island created a bight, a wide bay and naturally protected harbor. [2]
A rescue boat is at the scene of the boat wreck in Biscayne Bay off North Key Largo on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. The 29-foot Robalo hit a channel marker and hurled everyone aboard into the water.
The boats left behind tell a story. Passersby leave their cars to take pictures of a small Cuban sailboat abandoned on U.S. 1 just north of Marathon in the Florida Keys.
A boat lists on its side in shallow water off Sugarloaf Key Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. The boat is one of more than 100 displaced vessels resulting from Hurricane Ian, which passed by the Florida ...
A yacht that was wrecked off Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. Henrietta Marie England: 1700 A slave ship sunk off Florida Keys. Herrera Spain: 1733 A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. Isaac Allerton United States: 28 August 1856 A merchant ship that sank in a hurricane off the Saddlebunch ...
A badly damaged Sea Hunter center console floats next to the South Pine Channel Bridge in the Lower Florida Keys Monday, July 8, 2024. One of the injured was a 12-year-old boy with multiple leg ...