Fluke's Folly #1
Local Name:
Fluke's Folly #1
Depth:
Depth is approximately 75 feet.
Anchoring:
This wreck was discovered by anchoring on G-Buoy coral head and swimming out on a course of 300 deg mag. However, after plotting the wreck, it is certainly much closer to K-9 Coral head (about 1/3 the distance), so swimming out from K-9 coral head is the way to go!
Location:
| Latitude |
Longitude |
| Degrees |
Minutes |
Seconds |
Degrees |
Minutes |
Seconds |
| 8 |
43 |
54.540 |
167 |
43 |
28.440 |
| 8 |
43.90900 |
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167 |
43.47400 |
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| 8.73181 |
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167.72456 |
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Notes:
This wreck was discovered (at least as far as I am concerned!) on 8/27/2005 by Linda Fluke and myself while on a "junk dive" from G-Buoy coral head. This is just another LCM. Nothing too exciting. It sits upright on the bottom. It appears that the engines were stripped from it before sinking.The wreck is named after Linda. She is PCSing in September 2005 and had hoped to have a wreck named after her before leaving. Luckily, we found something for her to put her name on! Now we called this "Fluke's Folly #1" in hopes that Linda will be back soon for another tour and join us to find more wrecks!
Photos:
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Nearby Attractions:
A few words of caution are due here!
While I believe that this data is fairly accurate, one must apply some common sense when using this data. If the point of origin is a coral head, you may have anchored at a slightly different spot than I did and your bearing to the next attraction could be slightly different than mine. I suggest checking with your own GPS before rolling in!
Also, know roughly how fast you swim so that you know approximately how long it should take to reach the next attraction. You can (and likely will) miss things from time-to-time and you should know when to abort and turn around before you are too far from your boat.
I strongly urge you to try the shorter swims first and build your navigation skills. I have set the cutoff distance for this table to 750 feet, but that is a considerable challenge even for the best navigators. An error of more than a few degrees in poor visibility and you can easily miss your destination at the extreme ranges!
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Fri Sep 3 01:50:38 UTC 2010