Alligator Reef Lighthouse is named after the USS Alligator, a U.S. Navy schooner that ran aground on the reef in 1822 and sank, and five other aging lighthouses off the Keys were important maritime ...
A 150-year-old beacon that helped guide ships through the treacherous Florida Keys coral reefs before GPS, sonar and other technology made it obsolete is shining again as part of a national effort to ...
FILE - A NOAA diver photographs a reef inside the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, in 2019, before the area was affected by last summer's bleaching event. A new artificial reefs program that ...
An group that is spending $6 million to restore and preserve the Alligator Reef Lighthouse turned on its new solar-powered lights on Saturday. In this photo taken on Friday and provided by the Florida ...