Years ago , went diving of the Florida Keys , they had taken 2 Coastguard ships which were to be decommissioned and sank them as an artificial reef. Within a few years they had become one of the most popular dive sites , so hopefully , this project will work and attract a lot of divers.
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The Duane was built in 1935. She is 327 feet long, with a 41 foot beam. She served as a US Coast Guard Cutter, seeing service patrolling offshore of Florida during WW II, in Europe during the invasion of France, and patrolling the coast of Vietnam. She did search and rescue in later peacetime years and was decommissioned in 1985. A consortium of diveshops and other organizations arranged for the Duane and the Bibb (the Duane's sister ship) to be stripped and prepared as artificial reefs and divesites. The doors were removed above the main deck and the lower compartments were sealed. Both ships were sunk in 1987
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