The Florida Keys island chain is the home of the only North America’s coral barrier reef. Coral formations are famous for their abundance of fish, from impressive schools of blue-striped grunts to toothy green moray eels. The U.S. government established the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to protect the marine habitat.
Most sites are a short boat ride from islands...
English (Translate this text in English): The Florida Keys island chain is the home of the only North America’s coral barrier reef. Coral formations are famous for their abundance of fish, from impressive schools of blue-striped grunts to toothy green moray eels. The U.S. government established the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to protect the marine habitat.
Most sites are a short boat ride from islands...
English (Translate this text in English): The Florida Keys island chain is the home of the only North America’s coral barrier reef. Coral formations are famous for their abundance of fish, from impressive schools of blue-striped grunts to toothy green moray eels. The U.S. government established the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to protect the marine habitat.
Most sites are a short boat ride from islands...
English (Translate this text in English): The Florida Keys island chain is the home of the only North America’s coral barrier reef. Coral formations are famous for their abundance of fish, from impressive schools of blue-striped grunts to toothy green moray eels. The U.S. government established the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to protect the marine habitat.
Most sites are a short boat ride from islands...
English (Translate this text in English): The Florida Keys island chain is the home of the only North America’s coral barrier reef. Coral formations are famous for their abundance of fish, from impressive schools of blue-striped grunts to toothy green moray eels. The U.S. government established the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to protect the marine habitat.
Most sites are a short boat ride from islands...
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By Anonymous , 13-09-2006
Fishy Story - MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida diver shot a large grouper with a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear, investigators said Monday.
The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet of water off the lower Florida Keys Saturday and speared a Goliath Grouper, Monroe County Sheriff's Detective Mark Coleman said.
"It looks like the fish wrapped the line attached to the spear around the victim's wrist. The fish then went into a hole in a coral rock, effectively pinning the man to the bottom of the ocean," Coleman said in a news release.
Police divers found the speared fish tightly wedged into the hole, with the man's body still tangled in the line, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.
Goliath Grouper are the largest members of the sea bass family and can weigh hundreds of pounds.