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to: STEVE ELLIOT
from: ROBERT ESKRIDGE
date: 1997-02-14 07:24:00
subject: Re: Florida Diving

 SE> Some of the dive shops (like Capt'n Slate's) have
 SE> scheduled trips to the Duane on certain days of the
 SE> week.  It's one of those wrecks that you've just
 SE> "gotta do" the next time that you're down here.
 SE> I've dove the site dozens of times and in all sorts
 SE> of conditions, and it's still one of my favorite wreck
 SE> dives.
The wreck that gets my rating of BANG! (Which means you should shoot yourself 
if you miss this dive) is the HMS Rhone in the BVI.  It's a 300 foot British 
mail packet that was snapped in half during a hurricane in the 1870's.  The 
stern is in about 45' and the bow is in 80' with miscellaneous debris 
(boilers, cannon, etc.) scattered between.
It's on a sandy bottom so even the view from snorkle level leaves you 
dumbstruck at the force that could snap a vessel in half.
-bry
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