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The Navy Base donated a boat to Panama City Marine Institute to be sunk as Mac's reef.
The family of Richard “Mac” McCullen was on board Panama City dive Center’s dive boat pulling the old Navy work barge (Navy 2154) out to its final resting place. Panama City Dive Center divers along with divers from (PCMI) Panama City Marine Institute sunk the boat June 29, 2007 in 97ft of water about 10.5 miles offshore. The wreck will be used as an artificial reef named “Mac’s Reef” for fishing and diving. “Divers gotta be tough” was McCullen’s motto, and four years after his death, friends and family accompanied the tough old boat out into the gulf to be sunk.
Sinking the Red Sea (Infinity Blu Reef)
If you are tired of diving the same wrecks when you come to Panama City Beach, then i have some good news; plans are to sink the 125-foot tugboat Red Sea, late summer 2007, for a new diving and fishing location. The tug was built in 1928. It is 125 feet long and 32 feet wide. If it lands on the bottom upright in 75 feet of water, the topmost portion should be about 45 feet down.