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The Aquarius Reef Base is an underwater habitat located 5.4 mi (8.7 km) off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida, United States.It is the world's only undersea research laboratory and it is operated by Florida International University.
Molasses Reef is a popular scuba diving and snorkeling location with numerous dive sites marked by mooring buoys. One notable site is at buoy #7 and is variously referred to as the Winch Hole , Windlass Wreck , or The Winch .
Training for Olympic diving competition requires 10-meter diving facilities, which are scant in some parts of the world. For example, the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, built in 1979 as a YMCA facility, is one of only two Olympic-sized pools in Wisconsin that can host large events, and it is the only facility in the southeast Wisconsin region ...
The Spiegel Grove, a Cold War-era U.S. Navy troop ship, was sunk about six miles off Key Largo in 2002 Scuba diver dies while exploring popular shipwreck, a third tragedy in the Florida Keys Skip ...
On 18 June 2015, Arne Berg, 65, of Dallas, Texas, surfaced after diving Spiegel Grove and became unresponsive. He was taken aboard a dive vessel, where crew members performed CPR. Berg was taken to shore at the Port Largo subdivision and transported to Mariners Hospital in Tavernier, where he was pronounced dead just before noon. [13]
The U.S. Coast Guard, state and local authorities were searching on Wednesday for a 44-year-old dive instructor who disappeared in the morning off Key West. Lost Reef Adventures dive instructor ...
On 10 April 1942, the crew of the salvage tug Willet examined the wreck and determined that the keel of the Benwood was broken, and she was a total loss. However, her superstructure and cargo of phosphate rock appear to have been salvaged. Her stern section, once considered a hazard to navigation, seems to have been mostly obliterated by ...
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