Divng the Fantastico Part 1

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Plunging the Fantastico: On Jan. 21, WINK-TV meteorologist Katie Walls and News-Press columnist Kevin Lollar made two swoops on the wreck of the Fantastico, which sank throughout the No Name Storm of 1993. Wide open to the harshe elements, green water of the Gulf of Mexico this week, the remaining parts of the Honduran tanker Fantastico lay on the ocean depths like a battered steel skeleton.

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Anyway it was a skeleton in movement, buzzing with many fish.

Making his first jump on the Fantastico, spearfisherman John Pound of Minneapolis-St. Paul was inspired — he got four pleasant mangrove snapper and an amberjack off the wreck.

“I’ll let you know what I think: On a scale of 1 to 10, its a 10,” he said. “It truly was immersed with fish.”

For 20 years, the 205-foot vessel, which lies in 105 feet of water 48 miles off Fort Myers Beach, has been home to an endless fish populace and is one of Southwest Florida’s top angling and spearfishing destinations, for those eager to make the long excursio

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