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UNCOVERED: Key largo - The Untold Story

In 2023, a USF scientist locked himself 22 feet underwater for 100 days turning a tiny habitat into his home, classroom and lab

In 2023, Joseph Dituri made an unusual decision: instead of spending his days above the surface, he would live 22 feet underwater for 100 days. His home was Jules’ Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, a cramped 100-square-foot habitat that would serve as his bedroom, workplace, classroom and laboratory.

The Times of India

In 2002, Florida sank a 510-foot Navy ship off Key Largo; the USS Spiegel Grove became one of the world's largest purpose-built ship reefs

In 2002, the USS Spiegel Grove, a decommissioned Navy ship, was purposely sunk near Key Largo to form an artificial reef. This innovative action has since attracted countless species of marine life, enhancing the habitat and relieving stress on natural ecosystems. The influx of divers has also stimulated the local…

The Economic Times

Key Largo used a sealed underwater habitat 22 feet below the surface to test prolonged human immersion; the result revealed a startling effect as a professor emerged after 100 days with his spine compressed and his height reduced by half an inch

Joseph Dituri spent 100 days underwater in a 100-square-foot habitat near Key Largo, Florida. The extreme experiment changed more than his routine. He reported being about half an inch shorter after resurfacing. His spine had adapted to prolonged pressure and confinement. The finding offers a striking lesson about the human…

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Video Shows Border Patrol Threaten Legal Observer in Key Largo for Following Him

Every federal circuit court that has considered the issue, including the one covering Florida, has upheld a First Amendment right to monitor and record the police.

Reason

Eight-year-old loses ‘significant amount of blood’ after shark attack in Florida

Authorities said the boy, who survived and was hospitalized, was bitten while snorkelling near Key Largo

The Guardian - US

Suspect arrested after 43-year-old missing woman was found beaten to death at Key Largo resort

Dylan Lamb told deputies that he hired Tillman to sleep with him and said he struck her after she took his money and refused to have sex with him

The Independent UK

Sea level rise causes local extinction

The Key Largo tree cactus is the first locally extinct species due to sea level rise — but it won't be the last

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Horror moment man is bitten by shark which refuses to let go as he swims at beach

Andres Garcia was in the water in Key Largo, Florida, when a nurse shark grabbed hold of his foot and refused to let go for around 15 minutes - leaving him requiring stitches

Daily Mirror

Giant Gator Captured After Stopping Traffic On Florida Highway

The 10-foot alligator backed up both lanes of traffic for over an hour.

Zenger

Manatee struck by a boat in the Florida Keys was sent to SeaWorld. He worked his way back

KEY LARGO, Fla. — Scientists at SeaWorld rehabilitate so many injured manatees, many from the Florida Keys, that they have trouble coming up with creative names for the aquatic mammals.

Miami Herald

As pythons in Florida try to hide, they face a new enemy: possums with GPS collars

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones.

Tribune News Service

Son of Trump’s CDC chief seriously hurt in Florida golf cart accident. His family wants answers

MIAMI — A Maryland man is in a coma with a severe head injury after falling off a golf cart last month at the exclusive Ocean Reef Club in North Key Largo.

Miami Herald

Florida troopers at scene of migrant landing on Key Largo following governor's emergency declaration

KEY LARGO, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state response to the latest influx of Cuban, and sometimes Haitian, migrant landings in the Florida Keys appears to have begun.

Miami Herald

Florida state police in Keys for migrant landings as Coast Guard ships Cubans back home

KEY LARGO, Fla. — The six state troopers greeting a boat with 28 Cubans aboard in Key Largo on Sunday hinted at a stepped-up Florida response to a long-running influx of migrants into the southern island chain that Gov. Ron DeSantis recently declared a state emergency.

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More than 100 Haitians land in Florida's Key Largo, just a day after Cuban migrants’ arrival

MIAMI — More than 100 Haitians landed Tuesday in a gated community in Key Largo, the latest boatload of refugees from the Caribbean to hit Florida’s shores.

Miami Herald

Key Largo is so flooded that crocs swim in streets — and you can’t even flush the toilet?

KEY LARGO, Fla. — For years, American crocodiles have be seen lounging, mouths agape, on boat ramps in the Key Largo neighborhood of Stillwright Point.

The Independent UK

20 years since Navy ship sunk for artificial reef in Keys

The 20th anniversary of the storied intentional sinking of a former Naval ship to become an artificial reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is being celebrated in Key Largo

The Independent UK

Boat carrying Haitian migrants grounds off the Florida Keys

Federal officials say a wooden boat carrying hundreds of Haitian migrants in a suspected human smuggling operation ran aground just off Key Largo, Florida

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More than 150 Haitian migrants land in the Florida Keys, officials say

MIAMI — A large group of migrants from Haiti arrived in a wooden boat off the shore of an exclusive gated community in north Key Largo Sunday afternoon.

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