Site de plongée
Key West, Florida, USA
USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Profondeur typique
45m
- Type
- Épave
- Profondeur typique
- 45 m
- Niveau
- Advanced
- Visibilité
- 15–30 m
- Température
- 22–30 °C
- Courant
- Moderate
- Accès
- Open access
- Niveau requis
- 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.
- Wreck
- Penetration
- Deep Wreck
- Artificial Reef
- Overhead Environment
- Radar Dishes
- Intact Superstructure
Quand plonger
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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.
24.4519° N, 81.7361° W
Notes
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.
Faune marine
- Corals
- young hard coral and sponge growth across the superstructure
- Sharks
- nurse shark
- Pelagics
- jacks, occasional sailfish
- Reef fish
- barracuda, goliath grouper, snapper, grunts
Épave
- Navire
- USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg
- Classe
- General G.O. Squier-class troop transport, later missile range instrumentation ship
- Origine
- United States
- Coulé
- 2009 — intentionally sunk as an artificial reef, 27 May 2009
- Longueur
- 159 m
- Pénétration
- Possible — avec formation
Clubs de plongée qui visitent ce site
- Captain Hook's Dive Key Westsource
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- Captain's Corner Dive Centersource
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- Finz Dive Centersource
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- Lost Reef Adventuressource
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- Southpoint Diverssource
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