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, October 27, 2013 Thinking out of the water Underwater hotel could give colorful views BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com Hundreds of thousands of scuba divers flock to the Florida Keys each year to see tropical fish, sharks and other colorful marine life. Key West-based...

After 4 years of living on the West Texas high plains (if you call that living) I am coming back to the Sunshine State. I lived down in KW for 13 years, but now I will be living in Fort Myers. So what kind of diving is near by? I know the Mohahk is off shore (I have walked its decks several...

Cousteau seeks to break grandfather's record BY JOSH GORE Free Press Staff jgore@keysnews.com KEY LARGO -- Tides appear to be turning for an underwater laboratory off Key Largo that was almost shuttered last year. Filmmaker and oceanographic explorer Fabien Cousteau announced last week he will...

Man sells 74 baby sharks caught in Florida waters BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com It remains to be seen whether a California man accused of buying and selling juvenile nurse sharks illegally trapped in the Florida Keys will go to trial on the West Coast or in Key West...

Crew remembers working the 'Vandy' BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com During the Cold War, mariners aboard the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg ship were busy in far off seas tracking missiles both foreign and domestic. The ship -- now the second-largest artificial reef in the...

Lab teaches children to be ocean stewards BY ROBERT SILK Free Press Staff rsilk@keysnews.com KEY LARGO -- It's a Monday morning at MarineLab and 20 students from Stockbridge High School in south central Michigan could be taking one last lagoon snorkel before heading back to the frozen north...

, December 8, 2012Dive tower painting honors founder BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com Of the few names that surface in the quiet world of Army Special Forces, Sgt. Maj. Walter Shumate's legend stands as a towering achievement to what one man can accomplish through sheer...

Archaeologists search reefs for clues Mystery ship could be century-old Hannah M. Bell BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com A group of volunteer divers converged on the Florida Keys this week to help unlock an underwater mystery off Key Largo dating back possibly to the early...

Sanctuary officials dive into public comments BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary officials this month will embark on the second part of a management plan review process and will begin dissecting thousands of comments about possible rule...

This was a cut and paste job from the Key West Citizen's web page. Sorry I dont have access to the rest of the story. Yacht was on autopilot when it slammed into reef FWC: Captain of 61-foot sportfisherman below making coffee The captain of the 61-foot vessel Laid Back, which slammed into the...

Keys shipwreck has Hollywood link BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com A Key West salvor believes an 1856 shipwreck of the merchant ship Isaac Allerton has ties to the Baldwin brothers of Hollywood fame, and his lawyer has sent a letter to movie star and "30 Rock" actor Alec...

Mohawk scuttled off Sanibel Island BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com A piece of Coast Guard and Key West history came to its final resting place on Monday. The retired Coast Guard cutter Mohawk, which was a floating museum berthed at Key West's Truman Waterfront for six years...

Sanctuary/refuge hearings wrap up User fees to restore coral, better education among suggestions BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com Efforts to restore damaged reef with cultivated coral have met with notable success over the past five years, and the Florida Keys National Marine...

Angler charged after pulling up diver BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com A biologist collecting data in 55 feet of water near the Western Dry Rocks last month was jerked to the surface by a fishermen apparently angry that her dive flag was in his fishing spot, according to...

Group forms to save undersea lab BY ROBERT SILK Free Press Staff rsilk@keysnews.com KEY LARGO -- A new age of Aquarius could be dawning just offshore of Key Largo. "We're not going to go away," said Debra Illes, executive director of the nascent Aquarius Foundation, which is promising to save...

Tourist, 39, dies diving CITIZEN STAFF A Tennessee man died diving offshore Key West Thursday, according to a press release from Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Deputy Becky Herrin. Ollie Macon Smithwick, 39, of Cookville, Tenn., was on vacation with his wife, 10-month-old baby and two male...

Library houses collection of diving history treasures BY ROBERT SILK Free Press Staff rsilk@keysnews.com ISLAMORADA -- Spend a moment in the newly completed Bauer Diving History Research Library at the Florida Keys History of Dive Museum and it becomes easy to imagine that you're somewhere else...

Fisherman puts invasive species on Keys menus 'Lion King' halts invaders BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff tohara@keysnews.com Gary Nichols' fellow commercial fishermen thought he was crazy when he first started targeting lionfish for commercial harvest. Nichols, who fishes out of Conch Key, is...

Diving icon's ashes spread here today Inventions touched all uses of scuba, re-breathers BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com The ashes of the man responsible for developing what evolved into the most advanced scuba systems used by today's Special Operations Forces, as well as...

Florida Keys News - Key West Citizen Saturday, January 14, 2012 Scuba diver dies; body found floating in water BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff alinhardt@keysnews.com A scuba diver died after being pulled from the water near the Vandenberg artificial reef Friday and another man's body was...