Uss Spiegel Grove Dive
A diver and a friendly bar jack hover over the bow of the spiegel grove at a depth of 80 feet.
Uss spiegel grove dive. Filmed with gopro 7 black. Scuba dive on the artificial reef wreck uss spiegel grove key largo florida keys. How to do florida. 20170427 key largo fl spiegel grove wreck dive duration.
Footage of the submerged uss spiegel grove has emerged as michael aery investigated the shipwreck from florida. She resides at a depth of 134 ft near dixie shoals in key largo. Hayes the 19th president of the united states. The uss spiegel grove is a landing ship dock lsd 32 which has been sunk to create an artificial reef in key largo.
The bow in its post hurricane dennis upright position is covered with sponges and gorgonia corals. Since that time her title of the biggest fell to the uss oriskany off florida s gulf coast in 2006 and the recent. Uss spiegel grove lsd 32 was a thomaston class dock landing ship of the united states navy she was named for spiegel grove the home and estate in fremont ohio of rutherford b. June 10 2002 hurricane dennis turned ship upright in july 2005 location.
One of my favorite wrecks the uss spiegel grove in the beautiful key largo fl. John garvey of hms minnow dive charters www h. Diving the spiegel grove wreck key largo duration. Spiegel grove arrives off key largo.
Rafael von aburg 2 116 views. Special thanks to capt. Title holder at the time of its sinking as an artificial reef in may of 2002 the 510 foot long and 85 foot wide spiegel grove lsd 32 a former loading ship dock originally constructed in september 1954 was the largest deliberately placed artificial reef in the world. The depth at the highest point of the ship is 60 65 ft depending on the tide.
Diver bob snyder was the first person to view the wreck. Become a padi spiegel grove diver at ocean divers. Spiegel grove specialty diver. Diving the spiegel grove 9 6 16 with horizon divers duration.
The spiegel grove at a glance date sunk. The purposely sunken ship has been underwater since june 2002 as michael dived. The breathtakingly enormous spiegel grove nearly two football fields long is the grande dame of key largo wrecks.