Boca Chica Channel Wreck The Boca Chica Channel Wreck represents
the remains of a late-eighteenth century wooden vessel that is
located on submerged bottomlands within Boca Chica Channel, a
small body of water adjacent to Boca Chica Key and within the
boundaries of Naval Air Facility (formerly Naval Air Station)
Key West. Local divers initially discovered the wreck site in
the early 1970s; its location was reported to the Florida Bureau
of Archaeological Research (BAR) in 1992. Three years later, the
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Florida Division
of Historical Resources developed a partnership with the Naval
Historical Center to inventory, investigate, and prepare
management plans for significant Navy shipwrecks in Florida's
waters. Planning discussions also included non-naval sites in
Florida under Navy jurisdiction, such as the Boca Chica Channel
Wreck. Major contributors to the project included the Naval
Historical Center, Florida BAR, National Park Service's
Submerged Resources Center (NP