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Underwater Music Festival celebrates The Beatles
About 400 divers and snorkelers had to get wet to listen to a radio station's broadcast in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. ...more
July 11, 2009
HELLO, REEF numbers GOODBYE, SHIP
A 13-year project to create an artificial reef off the Florida Keys for sport divers and anglers has culminated with the scuttling of a 523-foot-long former U.S. Air Force missile tracking ship. It took just a minute and 54 seconds Wednesday to sink the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg after demolition experts triggered a series of explosives that lined both sides of the ship's bilge area below the waterline. The ship settled on the bottom of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in an upright position. ...more
May 28, 2009
Venomous Lionfish Invading Florida Keys
KEY WEST, Fla. - Key West marine officials are campaigning against the possible invasion of a venomous marine fish popular with fish collectors. ...more
March 2, 2009
Seagrass Recovery Effort Begins In Florida Keys
A program to restore 4,000 square feet of damaged seagrass beds in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary near the Seven Mile Bridge began on Tuesday. ...more
October 7, 2008
Divers Get Immersed In Campaigns
Divers dressed as presidential candidates displayed campaign placards and waved American flags underwater Saturday in the Underwater Music Festival in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. ...more
July 13, 2008
Reef Exhibit Makes Splash In Key West
A new 2,400-gallon coral reef aquarium exhibit opened Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of an environmental center in the Florida Keys. ...more
February 3, 2008
Retired Ship To Become Artificial Reef
Officials overseeing the transformation of a retired U.S. Air Force missile tracking ship into an artificial reef off Key West said Saturday that they are planning to sink the ship May 15. ...more
January 27, 2008
Jack-O-Lanterns Go Underwater In Keys
KEY LARGO - Not content to carve their pumpkins in the traditional way, several divers carved jack-o'-lanterns more than 30 feet below the ocean's surface. ...more
October 22, 2007
Gen. Vandenberg's Final Mission: Attract Diving Aficionados To State
A decommissioned Air Force ship is being prepared at a Virginia shipyard to become a new habitat for marine life and an attraction for recreational divers in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. ...more
October 14, 2007
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