Diving the Spiegel Grove, Key Largo


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Published: August 23rd 2008
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After 60 some hours of travel from Bangkok, Simon and Lauren wound up in Miami and spent a weekend in the Florida Keys, diving on a reef and shallow wreck the first day, and doing a double dip on the USS Spiegel Grove the second. Lauren was pleased to be back home, and enjoyed showing Simon around the Keys and Miami. They witnessed the colorful sunset festival in Key West and vibrant fireworks d... Read Full Entry



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Amazing water colour and viz on the SpiegelAmazing water colour and viz on the Spiegel
Amazing water colour and viz on the Spiegel

That tropical blue was amazing.
Looking UpLooking Up
Looking Up

Looking up from under the Spiegel shows a variety of invertebrates and trapped bubbles escaping the the sunlit surface
Simon and GruntsSimon and Grunts
Simon and Grunts

Simon spies a school of grunts hiding behind the wreck
florida reefscapeflorida reefscape
florida reefscape

shallow reef in John Pennekamp
Upper DeckUpper Deck
Upper Deck

One of the open upper decks on the Spiegel
SwimthroughsSwimthroughs
Swimthroughs

Swimthroughs on the Spiegel
Escaping BubblesEscaping Bubbles
Escaping Bubbles

Trapped bubbles from divers and algae escape through cracks in the upper reaches of the Spiegel wreck
InvertsInverts
Inverts

tube sponge and other inverts on Spiegel. go strobe!



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