Guy Harvey
SPECIFICATIONS
COORDINATES
MAX DEPTH
RELIEF
SUNK DATE
26° 12.647' N
135
ft
25
ft
80° 03.944' W
41
8
m
m
May 10, 1997
30
ft
10
m
185
ft
56.1
m
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HISTORY
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Launched: 1957 as a coastal freighter at the Dutch shipyard of H.W. Bodewes, Martenshoek
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1978: sold to a Denmark based company
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1984: sold to a U.K. based company
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1985: sold to a Honduras based company
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1989: sold to an Anguilla based company
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1992: sold to a Guyana based company
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1997: sold to a Honduras based company again, but due to fatigue and neglect, the vessel had outlived her usefulness, and she was abandoned at Port‐au‐Prince, Haiti, later that year.
Name History:
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Voorwaarts (1957)
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Fredrika (1978)
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Emma (1980)
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Vicentian (1989)
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Emma A (1989)
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Endezo (1992)
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Lady Kimberly (1997)
Divesite:
Named after marine artist Guy Harvey who helped fund and promote this artificial reef project.
The Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo appropriated the vessel for use as an artificial reef and towed the crippled freighter back to Fort Lauderdale. Guy Harvey laid his artistic touch to the gutted vessel, painting billfish and sharks on its wheelhouse and hull. She now rests upright and intact, and encrusting organisms have long since covered over Harvey’s paintings.
May Storms had left a mark on the wreck and deterioration is becoming more noticeable.