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Johnson Sea Link. accident. The Johnson Sea Link accident was a June 1973 incident that claimed the lives of two divers. During a seemingly routine dive off Key West, the submersible Johnson Sea Link was trapped for over 24 hours in the wreckage of the destroyer USS Fred T. Berry, which had been sunk to create an artificial reef.
A man died Wednesday while scuba diving at a popular shipwreck site, the third tragedy this month in Florida Keys waters. The tragedy happened two days after the U.S. Coast Guard called off a ...
Aquarius Reef Base. 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. It is deployed on the ocean floor 62 ft (19 m) below the ...
SS Radaas – Ship sunk in 1917 near Portland Bill, now a dive site. SS Rondo – Ship sunk in Sound of Mull in 1935, now a recreational dive site. SS Rosehill – Steam collier torpedoed and sunk near Fowey, Cornwall. SS Rotorua – New Zealand Shipping Company steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship.
Area. 10,000,000 acres (4,000,000 ha) Highest elevation. 10 ft (3 m) [4] Dry Tortugas National Park is an American national park located about 68 miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys.
BSAC - British Sub Aqua Club – Recreational diving club, training and certification agency based in the UK. PADI TecRec (DSAT) - Professional Association of Diving Instructors – Recreational diver training and certification agency. GUE - Global Underwater Explorers – Recreational/technical scuba training and certification agency.
The Florida Reef (also known as the Great Florida Reef, Florida reefs, Florida Reef Tract and Florida Keys Reef Tract) is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States. [1] It lies a few miles seaward of the Florida Keys, is about 4 miles (6 to 7 km) wide and extends (along the 20 meter depth contour) 270 km (170 mi) from ...
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the ...