Something new to see in the Keys

[CBulla]

This occured on June 17, 2004 and for some reason there was so much press about it I never knew it occured. If you have been to the keys and been out on a boat from Key Largo, then chances are you've been to Molasses Reef at some point. Now there is something new to see there:

Tim Keeney (L), deputy assistant secretary for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, places a geodetic marker on the sea floor in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, off Key Largo, Florida, June 17, 2004. Watching Keeney at right, is Jim Connaughton, a senior White House environmental advisor. The geodetic marker is the first of its kind under the ocean, according to officials, and defines an area of Molasses Reef restored in 2003 following a 1984 ship grounding that pulverized 16,683 square feet of live coral. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Bob Care/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO

 

[DiveMaven]

Cool!! We'll be diving in Key Largo in a week (yay!!) and I hope we get to go see this.

 

[Lamar Jr]

I'll be diving in Key Largo on Friday with Paradise Charters, I'll see if we can find this marker.

BTW, what is the meaning/definition of "geodetic" ??????

 

[ASUPaula]

My last day of diving off Key Largo last week was June 16. I'll have to go back!

 

[simbrooks]

I'll be diving in Key Largo on Friday with Paradise Charters, I'll see if we can find this marker.

BTW, what is the meaning/definition of "geodetic" ??????

Although it was a few years ago i believe we covered this in our geotech and geology classes. Geodetics is the study of the size and shape of the earth. I am to assume that adding this marker will somehow add a little fraction more to the accuracy of those measurements - although most likely a PR type thing and you will start seeing these markers in other touristy/famous places. The thing about the measurements is that due to the movement of the earth's crust, the measurements change by the second (only fractionally) or more noticibly every year or so - which is also part of the objective of measuring the size/shape of the planet.

If i see it, i will look at it for a second, kind of like the manatee plaque in Kings Bay, FL, worth a quick read through if you are passing by, but not a cause to visit a place.