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  2. Mel Fisher - Wikipedia

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    She was one of the first women to learn how to dive and set a women's record by staying underwater for 50 hours. Mel and Deo had five children. On July 20, 1975, Fisher's oldest son Dirk, his wife Angel, and diver Rick Gage died after their boat sank due to bilge pump failure. [1] Fisher spent decades treasure hunting in the Florida Keys. [2]

  3. MV Adolphus Busch - Wikipedia

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    MV Adolphus Busch was a cargo ship that was sunk off of Looe Key, Florida, as an artificial reef and dive site. [1]The ship was built as London by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife, Scotland, for the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co Ltd, Dundee and was launched on 20 December 1950.

  4. Henrietta Marie - Wikipedia

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    The wreck was found in 1972 during a magnetometer survey by a boat operated by a subsidiary of Mel Fisher's Treasure Salvors, Inc. (Fisher's company was searching for the Nuestra Señora de Atocha and other ships of the 1622 Spanish treasure fleet that had wrecked along the Florida Keys in a hurricane.) Two anchors and a cannon were found on ...

  5. As ocean temps cool, divers start returning Florida’s rescued ...

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    Cynthia Lewis is finally catching her breath. For nearly four months, Lewis has overseen a lab in the Florida Keys housing more than 5,000 refugee corals rescued from scorching offshore waters.

  6. Birthday celebration to boating tragedy. What caused wreck ...

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    It was supposed to be a sun-drenched Miami birthday celebration on Biscayne Bay: 12 friends and two adults, out for a ride on a family’s boat on a gorgeous Labor Day holiday weekend.

  7. Florida Divers Find Tire, Car Keys During Gulf Cleanup - AOL

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    Divers in the Florida Panhandle carried out an underwater cleanup around the Okaloosa Island Pier in Fort Walton Beach, finding car keys and a tire among the detritus on the seabed, footage posted ...

  8. SS Benwood - Wikipedia

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    Today, the Benwood is a protected resource under the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, which was formed in 1975. Since her sinking, the Benwood has become an artificial reef, providing the only high-profile reef in the immediate vicinity. She is popular with recreational dives, particularly as a night dive site.

  9. List of shipwrecks of Florida - Wikipedia

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    A Spanish-Cuban slave ship that wrecked on a reef in the Florida Keys after a running gun battle with a Royal Navy anti-slavery patrol ship. USS Helena I United States Navy: 11 September 1919 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 ...