Tauchplatz
USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Key West, Florida, USA
- Typische Tiefe
- 45 m
- Typ
- Wrack
- Niveau
- Advanced
Notizen
159 m former missile-tracking ship scuttled as an artificial reef in 2009. Two giant radar dishes still in place; deck at 24 m, hull at 45 m.
Meereslebewesen
- Corals
- young hard coral and sponge growth across the superstructure
- Sharks
- nurse shark
- Pelagics
- jacks, occasional sailfish
- Reef fish
- barracuda, goliath grouper, snapper, grunts
Wrack
- Schiff
- USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg
- Klasse
- General G.O. Squier-class troop transport, later missile range instrumentation ship
- Herkunft
- United States
- Gesunken
- 2009 — intentionally sunk as an artificial reef, 27 May 2009
- Länge
- 159 m
- Penetration
- Möglich — mit Ausbildung
Eigenschaften
- Wreck
- Penetration
- Deep Wreck
- Artificial Reef
- Overhead Environment
- Radar Dishes
- Intact Superstructure
Beste Zeit
- Ideal
- Apr–Oct
- Vermeiden
- Dec–Feb
Florida Keys; divable year-round but summer offers the warmest water and longest weather windows. The Vandenberg sits in open water seven miles south of Key West — surface chop matters more here than at the inshore reefs.
Bedingungen & Zugang
- Sicht
- 15–30 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 22–30 °C
- Strömung
- Moderate
- Zugang
- Open access
- Mindeststufe
- Advanced Open Water for the upper deck (24 m); wreck specialty + tec/deep training for the engine room, holds and the radar-deck bottom plate at 40+ m.
Standort
24.4519° N, 81.7361° W
Tauchbasen, die diesen Spot ansteuern
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- Captain Hook's Dive Key WestKey West, FL, USA · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
- Captain's Corner Dive CenterKey West, FL, USA · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
- Finz Dive CenterKey West, FL, USA · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
- Lost Reef AdventuresKey West, FL, USA · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
- Southpoint DiversKey West, FL, USA · Tauchbasis[Quelle]
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