Andrea's I

Andrea's I is a 30-metre former harbour tugboat sunk on 13 May 2002 by the Broward County artificial reef program along Fort Lauderdale's second reef line, about a mile off shore. She landed perfectly upright on a sand bottom at 21 metres with the wheelhouse at around 15 metres, putting the entire wreck within a single open-water profile and making her one of the most beginner-friendly wreck dives in southeast Florida. The hull has been heavily encrusted with hard and soft corals and orange cup coral. Resident species include schools of grunts and sergeant majors inside the wheelhouse, French angelfish and queen angelfish around the deck, the resident green moray eel that lives in the engine room, occasional goliath grouper, southern stingrays on the sand and lionfish (the invasive Pterois) around the rails. The site is moored and is regularly visited as the second tank of two-tank wreck trips out of Fort Lauderdale operators.