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Exploring a Real Cartel Plane Wreck Underwater!
June 22, 2025 · 19 min · 308K views
What this video covers
Bobby sails his 1989 CT-56, named Naughty Dogs, from an anchorage outside Shroud Key in the Exuma Island chain, Bahamas, north to Norman's Key to snorkel a crashed airplane wreck. The plane is a Commander C-46 resting in about 10 feet of water, with its top exposed at low tide; local legend holds it belonged to the Medellin cartel, which allegedly used Norman's Key as a drug transshipment point, flying loads in and moving them by fast boat to the United States. Bobby and crew ride the Highfield dinghy to the wreck, snorkel it, then return to collect the two Labradoodles, Cougar and Merlin. Lunch at Macduff's on the beach runs $140 for two drinks, a spicy chicken sandwich, and fish tacos. The crew then explores a tiny uninhabited island nearby before sailing roughly seven miles to Highborne Key in about two and a half hours in light wind. At Highborne, Bobby anchors rather than taking a mooring ball at $40 a night, notes bull sharks at the marina entrance, and has dinner at the restaurant Exuma. A slow dinghy air leak traced to one-part patch glue is flagged as a pending repair, with a stop at Spanish Wells planned to buy two-part glue.
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