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Piracy was sometimes given legal status by the colonial powers, especially France under King Francis I (r. 1515–1547), in the hope of weakening Spain and Portugal's mare clausum trade monopolies in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This officially sanctioned piracy was known as privateering. From 1520 to 1560, French privateers were alone in ...
Local viewpoints of the storm include Clearwater Beach, Siesta Key and the Southernmost Point in Key West. Keep in mind that these cameras could go offline in the event of a power or internet outage.
Piracy usually excludes crimes committed by the perpetrator on their own vessel (e.g. theft), as well as privateering, which implies authorization by a state government. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of a number of states.
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]
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 ...
Once you’ve gotten your fill of history, visit the beach on the park’s southern end to picnic, swim, snorkel or fish. Hours : 8 a.m. to sunset, 365 days a year. Fort closes at 5 p.m.
Following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, Aquarius was taken to Wilmington, North Carolina, for repairs and refurbishment and was redeployed in the Florida Keys in 1993. Aquarius is located under 20 m (66 ft) of water at the base of a coral reef within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary , an ideal site for studying the health of sensitive coral ...
View North from Sand Key toward Clearwater Beach, Florida (2006) Sea oats at Sand Key Park Panorama view of Sand Key Park and County Road 183 from Clearwater Sand Key is a barrier island on Florida's Gulf Coast that stretches from Madeira Beach through Redington Beach, North Redington Beach, Redington Shores, Indian Shores, Indian Rocks Beach, Belleair Shore, and Belleair Beach into Clearwater.