Sinking the Red Sea Tug Panama City Beach

[pcbdownunder]

The tug boat Red Sea will be sunk tomorrow (June 24, 2009) as an artificial reef 5 ½ miles from Panama City Beach Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. The ocean going tug is 130 feet long and 30 feet wide, built in Philadelphia in 1929, it will make a great dive site for the local dive shops and an excellent reef for fishing. PCB Down Under Videos

 

[jmorriss]

The tug boat Red Sea will be sunk tomorrow (June 24, 2009) as an artificial reef 5 ½ miles from Panama City Beach Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. The ocean going tug is 130 feet long and 30 feet wide, built in Philadelphia in 1929, it will make a great dive site for the local dive shops and an excellent reef for fishing. PCB Down Under Videos

Any idea on water depth and GPS coordinates?

 

[pcbdownunder]

Coordinates are:
N30 00.958 W85 42.003
Bottom depth 72 feet
Top depth 36 feet

 

[eatmocrawfish]

Dove the Red Sea today (6-26-09). Fascinating to see a wreck with no sea life on it. No fish yet. quite a contrast with the nearby USS Strength which has literally millions of fish. Was able to go stem to stern and through most of the wreck in 30 minutes. The Red Sea is sure to be a very popular site because it's in relatively shallow water and has easy compartments to swim through.

 

[pcbdownunder]

You can go to this page for a video walk-through of the Red Sea before it was sunk PCB Down Under Videos

 

[wand94nard]

That's pretty neat. What a cool thing to do. I didn't know they actually had a ship sunk that you can dive through.

 

[LastMate]

Dove the site today and I must say its a 5 star site for me! The bait fish how ever can get in the way but the site truely is one to see!! The passage ways are easy to move around in. There are multilayer decks for those trained on over heads. Perfect site to dive for training and for fun!!!

 

[LastMate]

Here are a few photos of the Red Sea I got today. Enjoy!!

 

[DM95]

That's a great set of photos on a relatively new wreck. A lot of small fish means the big ones are not far behind. Now if it can just stay clear of all the fishing lines..........Thanks for sharing-

 

[mike_s]

cool pics.


I wonder if we can get a MOD to move this thread to Deep Dixie Divers, so this thread will get more notice by people.