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GPS Coordinates: 24 49.504N, 80 38.590W, Depth: 110'
CANNABIS CRUISER is off of Islamorada in the Florida Keys. This drug smuggling 75 foot trawler was on its way to the states when the crew decided that surveillance was too heavy and agreed to sink the vessel. About five years latter, divers, Buddy Brown and Bob Guenther, discovered the wreck five miles off Islamorada. The wreck was completely intact in 110 feet of water including her radar and Loran electronics and cargo of contraband marijuana. Buddy told us how he busted the dogs on a hatch, and several 20 to 30 pound bails of marijuana rocketed to the surface. The two divers looked around the wreck, then surfaced and called the Coast Guard. Photographer Stephen Frink wrote an article on the wreck and came up with the name Cannabis Cruiser. Today the Cannabis Cruiser or Pot Wreck is broken up but makes an interesting deep dive. She is usually loaded with marine life including jacks, grouper, hogfish, angles and an occasional shark.
The Cannabis Cruiser doesn’t have a marker or any mooring buoys to mark where she sits. The depth of the water here is 108'. It’s located three miles west of Alligator Reef Light. The GPS coordinates are 24'49.584N and 080'38.590W.
She is a 75' Trawler. She was used to smuggle drugs in the late 70's. She was hauling a load of 30 pound bails of marijuana to off load in the Florida Keys when she was spotted by the Coast Guard. The smugglers didn’t want to get busted with the pot so they sank the trawler and jumped ship.
The ship was found several years later and she’s sitting in the upright position. It’s totally intact including all of her equipment and several bails of marijuana.
These days many fish call her home. Divers have reported seeing, jewfish, several very large snook, lots of hogfish, an occasional shark and a very curious and large green moray eel. This is a really cool Florida Keys wreck just because of its history. This wreck is for the advanced diver.
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