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USCGC Bibb wreck

Florida Keyswreck Secretary-class Coast Guard ship

Coordinates 24.9952, -80.3795 (from Wikidata Q7866010, CC0). Wikidata coordinates may mark a reef, park or wreck in general, not a mooring buoy or entry point. · Wikipedia

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What you might see, by month

Counts of species records within about 1 km of this point, from GBIF.org, filtered to CC0 and CC BY 4.0 licenses only (land animals and birds excluded). These come from survey effort, so more records do not mean more animals. They are not a sighting forecast. 1,562 qualifying records in total. See the records on GBIF.

Jan 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Feb 6 records
  • No qualifying records
Mar 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Apr 1 records
May 2 records
Jun 583 records
Jul 217 records
Aug 413 records
Sep 337 records
Oct 2 records
Nov 0 records
  • No qualifying records
Dec 0 records
  • No qualifying records

Most-recorded species here (all months)

  1. redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) (112)
  2. bluehead (Thalassoma bifasciatum) (109)
  3. bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) (105)
  4. yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti) (99)
  5. striped parrotfish (Scarus iseri) (73)
  6. Barber (Acanthurus bahianus) (67)
  7. Doctorfish (Acanthurus chirurgus) (61)
  8. Blue Tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) (51)
  9. blue chromis (Chromis cyanea) (49)
  10. clown wrasse (Halichoeres maculipinna) (46)
  11. greenblotch parrotfish (Sparisoma atomarium) (39)
  12. Sharpnose Puffer (Canthigaster rostrata) (37)
  13. reef butterflyfish (Chaetodon sedentarius) (35)
  14. masked goby (Coryphopterus personatus) (33)
  15. slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) (28)
  16. bridled goby (Coryphopterus glaucofraenum) (26)
  17. brown chromis (Chromis multilineata) (25)
  18. Bar Jack (Caranx ruber) (23)
  19. creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae) (23)
  20. queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) (23)

Reef heat stress: Florida Keys region

NOAA Coral Reef Watch 5 km regional virtual station Florida Keys. This covers the whole region, not this exact site. Latest value at build time (2026-10-12):

Bleaching alert level (7-day max)Bleaching Watch
Degree Heating Weeks16.7671 °C-weeks
SST range29.73–30.58 °C

Values refresh from NOAA when the page loads. Source: NOAA CRW virtual station: Florida Keys (data, method). Credit: NOAA Coral Reef Watch.

Conditions links

Depths, entry details and mooring info aren't listed yet because we haven't verified them from a citable source.

Data citation

GBIF.org (2026-10-14) GBIF Occurrence Data, queried via the GBIF API: https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?decimalLatitude=24.9852,25.005200000000002&decimalLongitude=-80.3895,-80.36949999999999&license=CC0_1_0&license=CC_BY_4_0&taxonKey=44&taxonKey=206&taxonKey=229&taxonKey=136&taxonKey=225&occurrenceStatus=PRESENT&limit=0. Records by license: CC0_1_0: 1,556, CC_BY_4_0: 6. Contributing datasets (top 15):