Contents of Scuba Sport Magazine - MAR-APR 2012

Scuba Sport Magazine is the only scuba magazine that offers diving news, dive travel, scuba gear, diving destinations and underwater photography that caters to the recreational diver.

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in the Spanish-American war. Eventually her sea-going life ended and she is now one of the most popular dives in the area. This site on the Shipwreck Trail is about 325 feet long. Even though the wreck was further destroyed to reduce the navigation hazard, divers can identify much of the ship such as the propulsion system, the port side chock, and hull plate sections with portholes. But the KLVWRULF DQG DUFKDHRORJLFDO VLJQLÀFDQFH of the City of Washington is not its only claim to fame.
It also has the distinction of being the site of the "Creature Feature" on Friday and Sunday mornings. For more than 25 years, Captain Slate of Atlantis Dive Center has been feeding and interacting with the animals in this area. The animals originally ZHUH IHG E\ 6WHYH .OHP RQH RI WKH ÀUVW dive operators in Key Largo in the 50's. As a result, divers get an unbelievably close and personal experience with nurse sharks, goliath groupers, barracudas, and moray eels that live there. Two "ginormous" groupers hang out with GLYHUV With everything that Key Largo has to offer, those who dive and those who don't will have to come back again and again to see and do it all. Every season is D GLIIHUHQW H[SHULHQFH RI WKLV ÀUVW LVODQG RI the Florida Keys. So remember when you need a break from those wingtips and KLJK KHHOV JUDE \RXU ÁLS ÁRSV DQG ÀQV and head to Key Largo!
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