The Maritime Education and Research Society (MERS) is a non-profit
501(c)(3) organization whose aims and objectives are to research and to
advance education and training in the techniques pertaining to the study
of various maritime fields of endeavor for the benefit of the public.
This MERS Research Publication No. 003 (MRP 003) researches and catalogs
the ships, aircraft and other items of interest that now mostly rest
underwater along Florida's Gulf Shores from Perdido Bay to Cape San
Blas - across six Florida counties. The book is in chronological order,
beginning with the possible wreck of some Spanish ships in 1533 "between
Pensacola and Mobile Bay" to the present. This research describes more
than 700 individual seafaring vessels and aircraft wrecks as well as
hundreds of other items used in making artificial reefs - automobile
hulks, reef balls, bridge rubble, dismantled oil rigs, etc.