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We do charter our
vessel out for specialist wreck diving. We do not hire diving equipment nor do
we have facilities for air or nitrox. We just charter you the vessel.
For those who know me, you will realize that I am not a diver but a
an avid sports wreck fisherman and wreck hunter.
But as some of you may know my brother
and nephew are very
experienced commercial saturation divers, so I am aware of the many hazards that
sports diver will encounter.
Many people have asked me about diving holiday's here in
Florida and so I have begun to
investigate on their behalf. So far I have only investigated dive boats within
my vicinity. Here at the dock in John's Pass , Madeira Beach/Treasure Island.

(Typical trace of
Wreck on seabed with fish showing up tide, taken in the English Channel UK)
I have located a dive boat in Clearwater. The
vessels name is the
"SEA FOX"
and the boat is a 50' . They have a very neat
site and which can be found at
www.seafoxdivecharters.com
where
you can find a whole listing of their diving schedule for each month.
I should also mention that Florida
has the two largest wrecks in the world sunk intentionally for sport diving. The
USS ORISKANY pictured below at 32,000 tons and deployed on the 17th May 2006.
This lies in the Gulf of Mexico 24 miles of Pensacola Beach.

"USS ORISKANY"
We also have the SPIEGEL GROVE
pictured below at 6880 tons which can dived off Islamorada in the Florida Keyes.

USS SPIEGEL GROVE
Type of Vessel: Landing Ship Dock (LSD)
Length: 510 feet Beam: 84 feet Tonnage: 6,880 tons
Speed: 22.5 knots
Commissioned: Nov. 5, 1955 Decommissioned: Oct. 2, 1989
Cost of project: $1 million
Deployed on May
17th 2002 off the Islamorada, Upper Keys.
Captain Tony Allen has an extensive list of WRECK DIVE SITES in the
Florida & Gulf of Mexico area
and is currently searching for new wrecks using a magnetometer and side
scan sonar.
He is well known for his wreck knowledge of the English Channel and of the many
new wreck locations he forwarded to the Hydrographic Department at Taunton.
These can be seen on many Hydrographic printouts.
A
Database of WRECKS and additional information for Scuba Divers can be found at
the following UK WEBSITE. It's excellent and has information for all over the
world. Click on the Diver to take you to the site.

Probably the best site for wreck information is now
www.thewrecksite.com Our new
website should be operationally from AUGUST 2007. Please contribute so others may enjoy
what is currently unknown wreck information to them.

Florida Artificial Reef Program
SHIPWRECK
LOCATIONS OF FLORIDA by Capt. Tony Allen
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