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John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is a Florida State Park located on Key Largo in Florida. It includes approximately 70 nautical square miles (240 km 2) of adjacent Atlantic Ocean waters. The park is approximately 25 miles in length and extends 3 miles into the Atlantic Ocean along the prominent Hawk Channel passage.
A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. City of Washington United States: 10 July 1917 A steamship that ran aground off Key Largo. [1] [16] USS Coco United States Navy: 9 September 1919 A patrol vessel that was wrecked at Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. USS Curb United States Navy: 23 ...
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.
The heart of the park is the San Pedro, a submerged shipwreck from a 1733 Spanish flotilla, around which visitors can dive and snorkel. The San Pedro, a 287-ton Dutch-built vessel, and 21 other Spanish ships under the command of Rodrigo de Torres left Havana, Cuba, on Friday, July 13, 1733, bound for Spain.
Rob Doyle, a scuba diving pizza delivery man at an underwater hotel, doesn't just drive up to a front door and knock. He straps on scuba gear and dives deep beneath Key Largo, Florida, to deliver ...
Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. This reef is within a Sanctuary Preservation Area (SPA).
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 ...
The island was formerly called Middle Key or Sand Key. It lies 2.5 km (1.6 mi) northeast of Garden Key and Bush Key, 70 m (230 ft). Its area is 4,000 m 2 (0.99 acres), and it is 1 m (3 ft 3 in) above sea level at its highest point. Middle Key, 2.5 km (1.6 mi) east of Hospital key, 90 m (300 ft), area 6,000 m 2 (1.5 acres). Due to various ...