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Divers To Explore New Artificial Reef

Posted: 11:16 am EDT June 25, 2009Updated: 11:20 am EDT June 25, 2009

There's another artificial reef for divers to explore off Florida's coast.

An old tug boat called the Red Sea settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, just off the coast of Panama City Beach.

The new artificial reef is only 75 feet below the surface of the water. It is the first wreck site that has been put in shallow water in the area in the past 10 years.

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