Dive Sites

The 105 ft tug Rio Miami was featured on a 1989 episode of 20/20. She is upright and her cabin and ladders are intact rising up to 30 feet from the surface. This is one of the most intact wrecks in the area and is easily penetrated. Nice dive! Lots of fish! QUICK FACTS: Type: Wreck…

This 95 foot Coast Guard cutter was built in 1953 and was resold at in auction in Fort Lauderdale to a businessman who renamed her Robert Edmister after a friend who had passed away. The newly named Robert Edmister was sunk on Dec. 11, 1989 and sits upright in 70 feet of water. The Edmister…

The RSB-1 is a 160′ long tender. The bow is pointing to north and the ship is upright. This is another ship with tall structure on the wheel house, creating a great fish haven. Usually you will see schools of fish around the mast, Penetrating the ships hold is very easy thru large openings. History:…

The Sea Emperor was a hopper barge 171′ long and 45′ wide. The barge is upside down with the bow pointing to the south. Inside the wreck and to the east lie 1600 tons of concrete drainage culverts. The barge is also home to Goliath Groupers, eels, stingrays, nurse sharks and hundreds of other fish….

In 110 feet of water lays Sheri-Lynn, a 235-foot freighter. It took 400 pounds of high-explosives to bring this ship down. Dutch-built, she carried a small crew as she was launched in 1952 and used for shipping. When she had been docked for several years without use, it was assumed that this ship was abandoned…

One of our favorite dives on Key Largo is Spanish Anchor on Molasses Reef. Due to ts proximity to the Gulf Stream, this reef has some of the best visibility in the area. The coral-encusted anchor measuring 10 feet in length lies in one of the most pristine sections of Molasses Reef, and in addition to passing pelagics, divers will…

The SS Copenhagen was a steamer 325′ long with a beam of 47′. The wreck is broken up along the eastern side of the Pompano Drop Off. While some of the wreckage is buried you can still make out many features of the wreck. It is nostalgic diving or snorkeling a wreck site over a…

Tenneco Towers is an artificial reef created by five oil platforms. Three of the rigs are reachable within recreational diving limits, top decks are 60, 80 and 100 feet depth. The other two rigs are located in waters of 200 feet deep, mainly for technical diving and fishery purposes. Tenneco Towers’ marine and coral life…

The Caves is shallow series of ledges located about 2 miles north from the Port Everglades Inlet. A series of 16 mooring balls mark the broken ledge varying in depth from 20 to 30 feet.  This reef consists of a wall of tall ledges that create small caves just large enough for nurse sharks and…

These left over sewer pipes were disposed of just offshore south of Government Cut where they have sort of “stacked up” on top of each other in about 40 feet of water. The growth on the structures is incredible as the open pipes allow uninhibited flow of water and thus nutrients. Oysters, clams, sponges and…

The St. Anne D’Auray was a 110-ft North Atlantic trawler that was sunk in 1986 in 75ft of water. Many openings were created in the bulkheads, creating several access points for penetration. Now divers can swim down the halls past the dining room and galley and head straight into the engine room. Although parts of…

Coming Soon The 165 foot steel ship is a part of the Artificial Reef Site located about five miles North of Government Cut. The Tortuga is upright in 115 feet of water with the deck at about 90 feet. The large openings in the ship make this wreck fairly easy for the trained wreck diver…