Miami Beach Wreckreational Diving

Ken English Daytona Beach FLMark Romero provides the soundtrack to this video I did of wreck diving near Miami Beach, FL. The footage was shot in 2000 as a promotional video promoting the unique diving opportunities in the Greater Miami area. At the time, we were attempting to attract the annual diving industry convention, which we did in 2003.

Subsequent to the sinking of the ships, a 22-ton Margarita Bar was sunk as part of the Jose Cuervo South Beach Splash and Atlantis, now Neptune Reef, was placed near Key Biscayne. Both in less that 50 feet of water, the bar, in fact, is in less than 20 feet, about 100 yards due east of Nikki Beach at the southern end of Miami Beach.

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Jacksonville’s Urban Core – Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church

Jacksonville, Florida is the largest (physical size) city in the United States. Like most U.S. cities, there is an urban core that has been neglected and allowed to decline. But people live there. And churches, mostly small store-fronts or non-descript buildings provide a unifying element.

Once such facility is the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church at 1401 Evergreen Avenue. Under the direction of Pastor Leroy Love, the church is looking to the future. First, with a painting project, then with a new capital fund-raising effort to build a new church.