It requires much preparation and carries significant risk, but the reward can be rare and valuable fish.
February 2021
Off the southern tip of the Florida peninsula lies a fleet of ghost ships, purposefully sunk by their owner, the U.S. Navy.
Fifty years ago, the Navy believed that large warships could be destroyed by placing a relatively small explosive charge at exactly the right spot under their keels. The Underwater Explosives Research Division from the Taylor Research Center in Washington, D.C. developed the hypothesis. But it needed real-time data to make modern warships more resistant to attack.
In April and May of 1972, the Navy sank four warships off American Shoal, 20 miles southeast of Key West, Florida: the