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USNS Vandenberg

DivingPermit neededMooring buoys

Wrecks

The Florida Keys, USUSNS Vandenberg
Best time
Apr–Jun, Oct–Nov
Water temp.
22–30 °C
Dive depth
12–43 m
Coordinates24°27′36″ N, 81°44′24″ W

522ft with two enormous satellite tracking dishes still mounted, reachable at 30m, the most science-fiction silhouette of any dive wreck. Goliath grouper, permit, cobia, and an increasingly dense sponge coat. A former WWII troop transport reborn as a NASA/USAF missile-range tracking ship that monitored Apollo launches and Soviet missile tests. Also a film star, she played the ship in the 1999 movie 'Virus'. Scuttled 27 May 2009. Anchorage: Mooring buoys; Key West Bight berths nearby. Hazards: No site-specific hazards noted, brief normally.

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