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Dry Tortugas National Park, located about 70 miles west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, covers 100 sq miles of ocean and seven small islands. A whopping 99% of the park is actually underwater.
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Nick Fuechsel, interpretive ranger
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Dry Tortugas is also home to the third largest barrier reef in the world; nurse sharks, sea turtles and snapper-grouper use the area to spawn. Because of that, the park presents a unique challenge for the rangers that call the islands home: how do you preserve an underwater area, where weather and predator damage are out of the rangers’ control?
Enter Nick Fuechsel, who has been an interpretive ranger at the Dry Tortugas for three years. As part of a dive team that supports the scientists who use the park as their base for experiments, Fuechsel sets up buoys to mark off research areas and maintains floating moorings for boats to use instead of anchoring. In 2007, almost half of Dry Tortugas was set aside as a research area dedicated to the preservation of its natural resources.
Dry Tortugas is located in the Gulf of Mexico (Credit: Credit: Jason O Watson/Alamy)
Dry Tortugas is located in the Gulf of Mexico (Credit: Jason O Watson/Alamy)
One of the most successful and well-known studies done in Dry Tortugas centred on the nurse shark population. Unlike other shark species, which are migratory, the mild-mannered nurse sharks are born, forage, mate and live their lives around the islands.
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