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Little Lagoon Nautical Chart. Little Lagoon is located on the western side of Gulf Shores, Alabama, and is situated between the Gulf of Mexico and Bon Secour Bay.The lagoon has four small fresh/brackish water lakes that drain into it, Lake Shelby (678 acres), Middle Lake (250 acres), Little Lake (45 acres), and Gator Lake (45 acres). [1]
The Frying Pan Tower™ rises 135' above the Atlantic Ocean is being restored by volunteers through FPTower Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to help provide safety to mariners and the local sea life as well as providing an on-site facility for environmental research, and to live stream cameras of above and below the ocean. Several ...
After ships were equipped with sonar sensors, they travelled back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean collecting observations of the sea floor. [6] In 1953, the cartographer Marie Tharp generated the first three-dimensional relief map of the ocean floor which proved there was an underwater mountain range in the middle of the Atlantic, along ...
Gulf Shores is located on the Gulf of Mexico, and is the southernmost settlement in the state of Alabama. [2] It is served by Alabama State Route 59 (Gulf Shores Parkway), which leads north to Foley. Route 182 (Beach Boulevard) runs east-west along the shore front, while Route 180 (Fort Morgan Road) runs parallel to it, north of Little Lagoon.
Gulf State Park is a public recreation area on the Gulf of Mexico in the city of Gulf Shores in southern Baldwin County, Alabama. The state park 's 6,150 acres (2,490 ha) mostly encompass the land behind the Gulf Shores beach community, between Highway 59 and SH 161 , with the west end extending further south to a wide beach area. [ 3 ]
A university professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers. Joseph Dituri’s 74th day residing in ...
As Hurricane Milton heads toward Florida, live stream cameras along Florida beaches could capture the storm’s arrival and impacts along the Gulf Coast and in the Florida Keys.
In December 2011, the construction of a new island was completed. 1,400,000 yards (1,300,000 m) of sand was dredged from the sea floor and deposited around the lighthouse creating a 2,600-foot (790 m) by 500-foot (150 m), or approximately 15-acre (6.1 ha), island. [9]