VISITING THE SANCTUARY DOCUMENTS

Thinking of visiting the sanctuary? Need to find a dive charter operator? Want to know the sanctuary's boundary and buoy coordinates? You’ve come to the right place.

This page is a compilation of documents found elsewhere in this web site. You will also find links to these documents on the appropriate web pages.

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GENERAL DOCUMENTS

Boundary and Buoy Coordinates (48kb pdf)
- a listing of all sanctuary boundary coordinates and the coordinates of each mooring buoy

Dive Charter Operators (88kb pdf)
- a listing of known dive charter operators that take SCUBA divers to the sanctuary

Diver Checklist (84kb pdf)
- a suggested list of items to take for a dive trip to the sanctuary

Regulations, summary (260kb pdf)
- a one page summary of the regulations most likely to be applicable to individual visitors to the sanctuary; not a comprehensive summary

Regulations, NMSP (364kb pdf)
- excerpt from Code of Federal Regulations detailing regulations application to the National Marine Sanctuary Program; regulations specific to the Flower Garden Banks NMS regulations are in Subpart L (2007)

Regulations, FGBNMS section (60kb pdf)
- Subpart L of the above document, outlining only regulations specific to the Flower Garden Banks NMS (2007)

Regulations, No Anchoring Amendment (44kb pdf)
- excerpt from the Federal Register, detailing changes to Flower Garden Banks NMS regulations to prohibit all anchoring and to limit size of vessels that can use mooring buoys (2001)

Species List (240kb pdf)
- a listing of all known plant and animal species found in the coral cap area of the sanctuary (the area within recreational dive limits)

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