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sand key lighthouse
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Overview
Description
First light house at this site is dated back to 1827. Hurricanes toppled over light house after light house. First screw pile foundation was started in 1852, finished in 1853. The very first hydraulic lamp. The lighthouse was automated in 1938. Iron screw piling. Typical spur and grooves of a sandy bottom. Some parts of the lighthouse reach depths of 100ft. An abundance of sea life for photography. It lies within the Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary.
Location 24.45389, -81.87750Get Directions
Dive Types
Reef, Ocean
Suggested Equipment
Booties, Camera, Dive Flag, Dive skin, Gloves, Rash guard, Shorty, Surface Marker Buoy, Torch, Wetsuit
Entry
Boat
Common SightingsGrouper, Lionfish, Nurse sharks, Hawksbill turtle, Moray eel, Coral, Brain coral, Reef fish ( Scorpionfish, boxfish,puffer fish, surgeonfish, angelfish, bannerfish, triggerfish, parrotfish, trumpetfish, pipefish, clown fish, sweetlips, snaper, grouper, lionfish etc), Stingrays, Tge biggest brain corals, Elkhorns, etc,etc,etc, Staghorn Coral, conchs
Water Type
Salt
Maximum Depth 27 feet / 8 meters
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