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Florida Straits

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Deep-Water Drilling Rig to Move West Along Cuba's Coast After Exploratory Well Comes Up Dry

    Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF recently announced that its exploratory drilling efforts in "ultra-deep" waters off the coast of Cuba were unsuccessful. To drill the test well, Repsol leased the massive Chinese-built Scarabeo 9 drilling rig from Sapiem, an Italian company. The embargo has pretty m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Satellite Images Show First Glimpse of Cuba's Offshore Drilling Rig in Florida Straits

    Earlier this year, Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF announced that a massive drilling rig had started operating  in "ultra-deep water" in the Straits of Florida, somewhere between Cuba and the Keys. One of the more problematic aspects of the operation is the dearth of information about where the ri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Key West Food and Wine Festival Serves Up Fun in January

    Bear witness to the Shrimpy King at this year's Key West Food and Wine Festival.​How about this for a good time: You could become this year's Shrimp King. I know, I know -- it sounds like a name fit for a bad comic book villain. But it's actually the title bestowed on the winner of the Key West Fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Has Oil Entered Gulf Stream, Reached Fort Lauderdale?

    B. BrownOil off of Port Everglades ​Yesterday, a Fort Lauderdale-based yacht captain was boating about 12.5 miles offshore from Port Everglades when he and his passengers noticed the oil slick pictured above.  According to the captain, the slick was about a half-mile long. It was unlike anyth ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2010

    Four Kids From South Florida Led the World's Biggest Online Identity Heist

    B. BrownOil off of Port Everglades ​Yesterday, a Fort Lauderdale-based yacht captain was boating about 12.5 miles offshore from Port Everglades when he and his passengers noticed the oil slick pictured above.  According to the captain, the slick was about a half-mile long. It was unlike anyth ... More >>

  • News

    October 1, 2009

    Revolico Moves Cuba's Black Market Online

    B. BrownOil off of Port Everglades ​Yesterday, a Fort Lauderdale-based yacht captain was boating about 12.5 miles offshore from Port Everglades when he and his passengers noticed the oil slick pictured above.  According to the captain, the slick was about a half-mile long. It was unlike anyth ... More >>

  • News

    February 26, 2009

    Guantánamo's Final Days

    America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

  • Calendar

    January 24, 2008
  • News

    January 24, 2008

    Dark Passage

    Six set sail on the Joe Cool hoping for better luck. Only two saw land again.

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2005

    Shtetl Havana

    Parting the Florida Straits

  • Goods and Services

    May 13, 2004

    Best Cigars

    Mya Handmade Cigars Factory

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    El Béisbolista

    No one has lived through more of South Florida's baseball past than Vicente Lopez

  • News

    December 20, 2001

    Christmas in Prison

    In which a onetime Cuban rafter and fix-it man takes on the dramatic role of mad bomber

  • Culture

    May 17, 2001

    From Ports to Puertas

    Looking back on ten days in spring that changed the landscape

  • Culture

    December 28, 2000

    Found at Sea

    The characters in A Bicycle Country may be adrift, but the playwright knows exactly where they're going

  • Culture

    September 28, 2000

    New Roots to Travel

    The importance of being Cuban gets a fresh hearing

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    Equal-Opportunity Dissident

    Julian Jorge Reyes was a child of Castro's revolution who turned against his leader. Now he's taking on el exilio.

  • Dining

    January 20, 2000
  • Culture

    December 30, 1999

    Three on a Raft

    A Bicycle Country

  • News

    September 30, 1999

    In Search of the Mach Turtle

    A reporter tags along as a South Florida PI searches for a missing trawler in Cuba, then finishes the job by battling with the boat's owner

  • Culture

    July 17, 1999

    The Abbreviated Tour

    A reporter tags along as a South Florida PI searches for a missing trawler in Cuba, then finishes the job by battling with the boat's owner

  • Culture

    July 8, 1999

    The Abbreviated Tour

    A reporter tags along as a South Florida PI searches for a missing trawler in Cuba, then finishes the job by battling with the boat's owner

  • Culture

    April 16, 1998

    Moscow on the Gulf

    A reporter tags along as a South Florida PI searches for a missing trawler in Cuba, then finishes the job by battling with the boat's owner

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