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Shipwreck Park aka Lady Luck, Newtown Creek
 Pompano, FL
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Max Depth: 141-150ft/43-46m
Entry Type: Boat
Bottom Composition: Sand
Aquatic Life: Might See Something
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Rating: 4.00 by 3 divers
Fall: 71-75°F/22-24°C
Winter: 66-70°F/19-21°C
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Shipwreck Park aka Lady Luck, Newtown Creek is a boat accessible salt water dive site, located in Pompano, FL. This dive site has an average rating of 4.00 out of 5 from 3 scuba divers. The maximum depth is 141-150ft/43-46m.
Sinking will be in July, 2016
Pompano Beach is betting divers will like its newest artificial reef – The Newtown Creek is a 324’ sludge tanker that was decommissioned by the City of New York and sold to Shipwreck Park Pompano Beach staged to look like a casino and renamed Lady Luck.
Prominent Pompano Beach artist Dennis MacDonald is creating a mock underwater casino, complete with poker tables, roulette tables and slot machines on the main deck.
You won’t be able to gamble, but you will be able to sit 50 feet underwater at a poker table and admire changing waterproof art exhibits and any random sea life that comes swimming by.
And who wouldn’t want to get a selfie in scuba gear, standing by a roulette wheel as schools of fish swim?
"Nothing on a ship of this magnitude with this kind of interactive art exists anywhere else," said Tom DiGiorgio, a Pompano businessman who heads up the city’s Economic Development Council.
Proposal;
pompanobeachfl.gov/assets/docs/db/commission/2015/07.28.15/3_items/26.pdfMore info, video and adds;
sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-artificial-reef...-20160717-story.htmlSinking video;
youtube.com/watch?v=Elikbon3IO4&feature=youtu.be