Come experience the American Caribbean, the Florida Keys this Summer or Fall. Our beaches and fisheries are clear and free of any oil impact

Come experience the American Caribbean, the Florida Keys this Summer or Fall. Our beaches and fisheries are clear and free of any oil impact. Call Coco Plum Realtors for all of your Vacation Rental needs.

Important Information for Florida Keys Visitors

• The Florida Keys are fully open to visitors and there are no current oil impact risks to the island chain, according to NOAA.
• Currently, there are no advisories recommending against travel to the Florida Keys or any other precautions advising visitors and residents not to engage in fishing, diving, swimming or other water sports, according to the Monroe County Health Department.
• There have been no physical impacts to the Florida Keys from the Gulf oil spill and none are anticipated in the immediate near future, according to NOAA trajectory forecasts.
• A large area in the Gulf of Mexico, west and northwest of the Keys, has been closed by NOAA Fisheries to protect the public. But no area in the Keys is under the order at this time. That means Keys-caught seafood has not been affected and is safe to consume.
• According to officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard, if the Florida Keys get any effects from the non-contiguous patches of oil sheen currently in the Gulf Loop Current, they are expected to be in the form of small tar balls, not large amounts of aqueous oil as seen near the spill site.
• At the current time, the northern end of the Loop Current has been pinched off into a large clockwise eddy (Eddy Franklin) so there is no clear path for spilled oil to enter the Loop Current from the source in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Additional oil spill-related resources:

Florida Department of Environmental Protection

NOAA

Deep Water Horizon Response

Florida Oil Spill Hotline (8 a.m.- 6 p.m.): 1-888-337-3569