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sits on a barren rocky bottom with no wrecks in the area. A great place to
coral around. snorkel. Caution: Surgy, strong currents
WESTERN SAMBO 25' - 45' Beg. MARQUESAS ROCK to 120' Int.-Adv.
Located within an ecological reserve. On Marked by a large can buoy 1.5 miles
the east end of the reef is a channel called west of Cosgrove Shoal Lighthouse.
Cannonball Cut with many spiny lobsters. Margates, jacks, squirrel fish, jewfish, and
Giant star coral mounds are found at this turtles are common. Caution: Strong
site. This site is known for its popular currents.
workboat wreck dive, The Aquanaut. COSGROVE SHOAL to 210' Int.-Adv.
Caution: Surgy Marked by a 50-foot lighthouse. Large
barracudas hang around the lighthouse.
JOE'S TUG to 60' Int. This 75-foot-long Black coral can be found in the deeper
tug was mysteriously scuttled in 1989 sections. Large brain corals with cleaner
while heading for the Miami scrap heap. wrasse provide cleaning stations for
Home to schoolmasters, grunts, a pair of barracudas, turtles and other large
moray eels, and a loggerhead turtle. A customers. Visibility here is excellent.
great night dive. Caution: Strong currents Caution: Strong currents.
COTTRELL KEY (GULF SIDE REEF) TEN-FATHOM LEDGE 35' - 100'+ The
to 15' Beg. Large clusters of coral heads, drop-off at the edge of a 35' deep reef here
and many snapper and parrotfish. descends to a sandy bottom 120' below.
Caution: Sometimes has poor visibility. The Gulf Stream makes this a drift dive,
and its openness brings lots of large
ALEXANDER'S WRECK to 30' Beg. pelagic fishes by, plus some very large
This former Naval vessel sits on its side groupers.
and is broken into two pieces, one of
which sticks out of the water. Caution: WESTERN DRY ROCKS to 40' Beg. A
Strong currents great reef with excellent visibility, and
many cracks, crevices, and caves.
THE LAKES to 30' Int. A series of Seasonally has sharks. Good snorkeling.
lagoons protected by islands and reefs.
Very shallow in many places. Runs from SAND KEY REEF to 65' Beg. A sand
Mule Key to Boca Grand Key. Caution: island with a lighthouse built in 1853.
Strong currents in channels. Wonderful shallow reef, good for
snorkelers. Caution: Surgy, fire coral.
MARQUESAS KEYS to 30' Int. The
only atoll in the Atlantic Ocean. Worth 9-FOOT STAKE 10' - 30' Beg. The nine-
the trip if you can do it. There are a few foot-long wooden stake is no longer here,
as it was taken out by a passing boat in the
