How can this ordinary Florida man "hack" a gas pump to get gas? 🔧🔓

“𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦-𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺... 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘦’𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮” [Main logotype Expert Modern Advice](   Dear Reader, A Florida dad pulls up to the service station… Tries to “hack” the gas pump… And then THIS happens… [Jeff Clark gas pump hack]( [Сlісk hеrе to watch!]( Andrew Miller, Managing Editor, Jeff Clark Trader People, kn as Paleo-Indians, entered Florida at least 14,000 years ago.[12] By the 16th century, the earliest time for which there is a historical record, major groups of people living in Florida included the Apalachee of the Florida Panhandle, the Timucua of northern and central Florida, the Ais of the central Atlantic coast, and the Calusa of southwest Florida.[13] European arrival Main articles: Spain, Spanish Florida, French and Indian War, Treaty of Paris (1763), West Florida, East Florida, Indian Reserve (1763), American Revolutionary War, Gulf Coast campaign, Treaty of Paris (1783), and Spanish West Florida Map of Florida, likely based on the expeditions of Hernando de Soto (1539–1543) The Castillo de San Marcos. Originy white with red corners, its design reflects the colors and shapes of the Cross of Burgundy and the subsequent Flag of Florida. East Florida and West Florida in British period (1763–1783) Florida was the first region of what is the contiguous United States to be visited and settled by Europeans. The earliest kn European explorers came with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. Ponce de León spotted and landed on the peninsula on April 2, 1513. He d it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards ced Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). The following day they came ashore to seek information and take possession of this land.[14][15] The story that he was searching for the Fountain of Youth is mythical and appeared long after his death.[16] In May 1539, Conquistador Hernando de Soto skirted the coast of Florida, searching for a deep harbor to land. He described a thick w of red mangroves spread mile after mile, some reaching as high as 70 feet (21 m), with intertwined and elevated roots making landing difficult.[17] The Spanish introduced Christianity, cattle, horses, sheep, the Castilian language, and more to Florida.[18] Spain established several settlements in Florida, with varying degrees of . In 1559, Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a settlement at present-day Pensacola, making it the first attempted settlement in Florida, but it was mostly abandoned by 1561. In 1564–1565, there was a French settlement at Fort Caroline, in present Duval County, which was destroyed by the Spanish.[19] In 1565, the settlement of St. Augustine (San Agustín) was established under the leadership of admiral and governor Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, creating what would become one of the oldest, continuously occupied European settlements in the continental U.S. and establishing the first generation of Floridanos and the Government of Florida.[20] Spain strategic control over the region by converting the local tribes to Christianity. The marriage between Luisa de Abrego, a black domestic servant from Seville, and Miguel Rodríguez, a white Segovian, occurred in 1565 in St. Augustine. It is the first recorded Christian marriage in the continental United States.[21] Some Spanish married or had unions with Pensacola, Creek, or African women, both slave and , and their descendants created a mixed-race population of mestizos and mulattoes. The Spanish encouraged slaves from the Thirteen Colonies to come to Florida as a refuge, promising dom in exchange for conversion to Catholicism. King Charles II of Spain issued a royal proclamation ing slaves who fled to Spanish Florida and accepted conversion and baptism. Most went to the area around St. Augustine, but escaped slaves also reached Pensacola. St. Augustine had mustered an -black militia unit defending Spanish Florida as early as 1683.[22] The geographical area of Spanish in La Florida diminished with the establishment of English settlements to the north and French to the west. English colonists and buccaneers launched several attacks on St. Augustine in the 17th and 18th centuries, razing the city and its cathedral to the ground several times. Spain built the Castillo de San Marcos in 1672 and Fort Matanzas in 1742 to defend Florida's capital city from attacks, and to maintain its strategic position in the defense of the Captaincy General of Cuba and the Spanish West Indies. In 1738, the Spanish governor of Florida Manuel de Montiano established Fort Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose near St. Augustine, a fortified town for escaped slaves to whom Montiano granted citizenship and dom in return for their service in the Florida militia, and which became the first black settlement legy sanctioned in North America.[23][24] In 1763, Spain traded Florida to the Kingdom of Britain for control of Havana, Cuba, which had been captured by the British during the Seven Years' War. The trade was done as part of the 1763 Treaty of Paris which ended the Seven Years' War. Spain was granted Louisiana from France due to their loss of Florida. A large portion of the Florida population left, taking along large portions of the remaining indigenous population with them to Cuba.[25] The British constructed the King's Road connecting St. Augustine to Georgia. The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point ced Wacca Pilatka, or the British "Cow Ford", reflecting the f that cattle were brought across the river there.[26][27][28] The British divided and consolidated the Florida provinces (Las Floridas) into East Florida and West Florida, a division the Spanish government kept after the brief British period.[29] The British government gave land grants to icers and soldiers who had fought in the French and Indian War in to encourage settlement. In to induce settlers to move to Florida, reports of its natural wealth were published in England. A number of British settlers who were described as being "energetic and of good charer" moved to Florida, mostly coming from South Carolina, Georgia and England. There was also a group of settlers who came from the colony of Bermuda. This was the first permanent English-speaking population in what is Duval County, Baker County, St. Johns County and Nassau County. The British constructed good public roads and introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo and fruits, as well as the export of lumber.[30][31] The British governors were directed to c general assemblies as as possible in to make laws for the Floridas, and in the meantime they were, with the advice of councils, to establish courts. This was the first introduction of the English-derived system which Florida still has =, including by jury, habeas corpus and county-based government.[30][31] Neither East Florida nor West Florida sent any representatives to Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence. Florida remained a Loyalist stronghold for the duration of the American Revolution.[32] Spain regained both East and West Florida after Britain's defeat in the Revolutionary War and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles in 1783, and continued the provincial divisions until 1821.[33] Statehood and Indian See also: Republic of East Florida, Seminole Wars, Adams–Onís Treaty, Florida Territory, Admission to the Union, and List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union A Cracker cowboy, 19th century Defense of Florida's northern b with the United States was minor during the second Spanish period. The region became a haven for escaped slaves and a base for Indian attacks against U.S. territories, and the U.S. pressed Spain for reform. Americans of English and Scots-Irish descent began moving into northern Florida from the backwoods of Georgia and South Carolina. Though technicy not owed by the Spanish authorities and the Floridan government, they were able to effectively police the b region and the backwoods settlers from the United States would continue to immigrate into Florida unchecked. These migrants, mixing with the already present British settlers who had remained in Florida since the British period, would be the progenitors of the population kn as Florida Crackers.[34] These American settlers established a permanent foothold in the area and ignored Spanish authorities. The British settlers who had remained also resented Spanish rule, leading to a rebellion in 1810 and the establishment for ninety days of the so-ced and Independent Republic of West Florida on September 23. After meetings beginning in June, rebels overcame the garrison at Baton Rouge ( in Louisiana), and unfurled the flag of the republic: a single white star on a blue field. This flag would later become kn as the "Bonnie Blue Flag". In 1810, parts of West Florida were annexed by the proclamation of President James Madison, who ed the region as part of the Louisiana . These parts were incorporated into the ly formed Territory of Orleans. The U.S. annexed the Mobile District of West Florida to the Mississippi Territory in 1812. Spain continued to dispute the area, though the United States graduy increased the area it occupied. In 1812, a group of settlers from Georgia, with de fo support from the U.S. federal government, attempted to overthrow the Floridan government in the province of East Florida. The settlers hoped to convince Floridians to join their cause and pro independence from Spain, but the settlers lost their tenuous support from the federal government and abandoned their cause by 1813.[35] Traditiony, historians argued that Seminoles based in East Florida began raiding Georgia settlements, and ering havens for runaway slaves. The United States Army led increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by Andrew Jackson that became kn as the First Seminole War. The United States effectively controlled East Florida. Control was necessary according to Secretary of State John Quincy Adams because Florida had become "a derelict to the occupancy of every enemy, civilized or savage, of the United States, and serving no other earthly purpose than as a post of annoyance to them."[36] A U.S. Marine boat searching the Everglades for Seminoles (hiding in foreground) during the Second Seminole War More recent historians describe that after U.S. independence, settlers in Georgia increased pressure on Seminole lands, and skirmishes near the b led to the First Seminole War (1816–19). The United States d Florida from Spain by the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) and took possession in 1821. The Seminole were moved out of their rich farmland in northern Florida and confined to a large reservation in the interior of the Florida peninsula by the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823). Passage of the Indian (1830) led to the Treaty of Payne's Landing (1832), which ced for the relocation of Seminole to Indian Territory ( Oklahoma).[37] Some resisted, leading to the Second Seminole War, the bloodiest war against Native Americans in United States history. By 1842, however, most Seminoles and Black Seminoles, facing starvation, were removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Perhaps fewer than 200 Seminoles remained in Florida after the Third Seminole War (1855–1858), having taken refuge in the Everglades, from where they surrendered to the US. They fostered a resurgence in traditional customs and a culture of staunch independence.[38] Florida had become a burden to Spain, which could not afford to send settlers or troops due to the devastation caused by the Peninsular War. Madrid, therefore, decided to cede the territory to the United States through the Adams–Onís Treaty, which took effect in 1821.[39] President James Monroe was authorized on March 3, 1821, to take possession of East Florida and West Florida for the United States and provide for initial governance.[40] Andrew Jackson, on behalf of the U.S. federal government, served as a military commissioner with the powers of governor of the ly acquired territory for a brief period.[41] On March 30, 1822, the U.S. Congress merged East Florida and part of West Florida into the Florida Territory.[42] By the early 1800s, Indian was a significant issue throughout the southeastern U.S. and also in Florida. In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed the Indian and as settlement increased, pressure grew on the U.S. government to remove the Indians from Florida. Seminoles ered sanctuary to blacks, and these became kn as the Black Seminoles, and clashes between whites and Indians grew with the influx of settlers. In 1832, the Treaty of Payne's Landing promised to the Seminoles lands west of the Mississippi River if they agreed to Florida. Many Seminole left at this time. Some Seminoles remained, and the U.S. Army arrived in Florida, leading to the Second Seminole War (1835–1842). Following the war, approximately 3,000 Seminole and 800 Black Seminole were removed to Indian Territory. A few hundred Seminole remained in Florida in the Everglades. The Historic C-Collins House, the Grove, built by slaves in the 1840s, is an antebellum plantation house in Tahassee. 1840 advertisement in the Pensacola Gazette ering a 10 (330 in 2022) reward for the return of a fugitive slave On March 3, 1845, one day before the end of President John Tyler's term in ice, Florida became the 27th state,[43] admitted as a slave state and no longer a sanctuary for runaway slaves. Initiy its population grew slowly.[44] As European settlers continued to encroach on Seminole lands, the United States intervened to move the remaining Seminoles to the West. The Third Seminole War (1855–58) resulted in the forced of most of the remaining Seminoles, although hundreds of Seminole Indians remained in the Everglades.[45] The first settlements and towns in South Florida were founded much later than those in the northern part of the state. The first permanent European settlers arrived in the early 19th century. People came from the Bahamas to South Florida and the Keys to hunt for treasure from the ships that ran aground on the treacherous Florida Reef. Some accepted Spanish land along the Miami River. At about the same time, the Seminole Indians arrived, along with a group of runaway slaves. The area was affected by the Second Seminole War, during which Major William S. Harney led several raids against the Indians. Most non-Indian residents were soldiers stationed at Fort Das. It was the most devastating Indian war in American history, causing almost a total loss of population in Miami. After the Second Seminole War ended in 1842, William English re-established a plantation started by his uncle on the Miami River. He charted the "Village of Miami" on the south of the Miami River and sold several plots of land. In 1844, Miami became the county seat, and six years later a census reported there were ninety-six residents in the area.[46] The Third Seminole War was not as destructive as the second, but it slowed the settlement of southeast Florida. At the end of the war, a few of the soldiers stayed. Civil War and Reconstruction Main article: Florida in the American Civil War See also: American Civil War and Reconstruction era The Battle of Olustee during the American Civil War, 1864 American settlers began to establish cotton plantations in north Florida, which required numerous laborers, which they supplied by buying slaves in the domestic market. By 1860, Florida had 140,424 people, of whom 44 were enslaved. There were fewer than 1,000 African Americans before the American Civil War.[47] On January 10, 1861, nearly delegates in the Florida Legislature approved an ordinance of secession,[48][49] declaring Florida to be "a sovereign and independent nation"—an apparent reassertion to the preamble in Florida's Constitution of 1838, in which Florida agreed with Congress to be a " and Independent State." The ordinance declared Florida's secession from the Union, owing it to become one of the founding members of the Confederate States. The Confederacy received little military help from Florida; the 15,000 troops it ered were genery sent elsewhere. Instead of troops and manufured goods, Florida did provide salt and, more importantly, beef to feed the Confederate armies. This was particularly important after 1864, when the Confederacy lost control of the Mississippi River, thereby losing to Texas beef.[50][51] The largest engagements in the state were the Battle of Olustee, on February 20, 1864, and the Battle of Natural Bridge, on March 6, 1865. Both were Confederate victories.[52] The war ended in 1865. Following the American Civil War, Florida's congressional representation was restored on Ju 25, 1868, albeit forcefully after Reconstruction and the instation of unelected government icials under the final authority of federal military commanders. After the Reconstruction period ended in 1876, white Democrats regained power in the state legislature. In 1885, they created a constitution, followed by statutes through 1889 that disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites.[53] In the pre-automobile era, railroads played a key role in the state's development, particularly in coastal areas. In 1883, the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad connected Pensacola and the rest of the Panhandle to the rest of the state. In 1884 the South Florida Railroad (later absorbed by Atlantic Coast Line Railroad) ed full service to Tampa. In 1894 the Florida East Coast Railway reached West Palm Beach; in 1896 it reached Biscayne Bay near Miami. Numerous other railroads were built over the interior of the state. 20th and 21st century Vacationers at the ly ed Don Cesar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Florida in 1928 Historicy, Florida's economy has been based primarily upon agricultural products such as citrus fruits, strawberries, nuts, sugarcane and cattle.[54] The boll weevil devastated cotton crops during the early 20th century.[55][56] Until the mid-20th century, Florida was the least-populous state in the southern United States. In 1900, its population was 528,542, of whom nearly 44 were African American, the same proportion as before the Civil War.[57] Forty blacks, roughly one-fifth of their 1900 population levels in Florida, left the state in the Migration. They left due to lynchings and racial violence and for better opportunities in the North and the West.[58] Disfranchisement for most African Americans in the state persisted until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s gained federal legislation in 1965 to enforce protection of their constitutional suffrage. Black and white photograph of segregationists fighting on a beach White segregationists (foreground) trying to prevent black people from swimming at a "White " beach in St. Augustine during the 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests In response to racial segregation in Florida, a number of protests occurred in Florida during the 1950s and 1960s as part of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1956–1957, students at Florida A&M University organized a bus boycott in Tahassee to mimic the Montgomery bus boycott and succeeded in integrating the city's buses.[59] Students also held sit-ins in 1960 in protest of segregated seating at local lunch counters, and in 1964 an incident at a St. Augustine motel pool, in which the owner poured acid into the water during a demonstration, influenced the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights .[60] Economic prosperity in the 1920s stimulated tourism to Florida and related development of hotels and resort communities. Combined with its sudden elevation in profile was the Florida land boom of the 1920s, which brought a brief period of intense land development. In 1925, the Seaboard Air Line broke the FEC's southeast Florida monopoly and extended its freight and passenger service to West Palm Beach; two years later it extended passenger service to Miami. Devastating hurricanes in 1926 and 1928, followed by the Depression, brought that period to a halt. Florida's economy did not fully recover until the military buildup for World War II. Miami's dom Tower, built in 1925, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. In 1939, Florida was described as "still very largely an empty State."[61] Subsequently, the growing availability of air conditioning, the climate, and a low of living made the state a haven. Migration from the Rust Belt and the Northeast sharply increased Florida's population after 1945. In the 1960s, many refugees from Cuba fleeing Fidel Castro's communist regime arrived in Miami at the dom Tower, where the federal government used the facility to process, document and provide and dental services for the comers. As a result, the dom Tower was also ced the "Ellis Island of the South."[62] In recent decades, more migrants have come for the jobs in a developing economy. With a population of more than 18 , according to the 2010 census, Florida is the most populous state in the southeastern United States and the third-most populous in the United States.[63] The population of Florida has boomed in recent years with the state being the recipient of the largest number of out-of-state movers in the country as of 2019.[64] Florida's growth has been widespread, as cities throughout the state have continued to see population growth.[65] In 2012, the killing of Trayvon Martin, a young black man, by George Zimmerman in Sanford drew national attention to Florida's stand-your-ground laws, and sparked African-American ivism nationy, including the Black Lives Matter movement.[66] After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, a large population of Puerto Ricans began moving to Florida to escape the widespread destruction. Hundreds of s of Puerto Ricans arrived in Florida after Maria dissipated, with nearly half of them arriving in Orlando and large populations also moving to Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach.[67] Memorials to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting left on the fence of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016 A handful of high-profile mass shootings have occurred in Florida in the 21st century. In June 2016, a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando. It is the deadliest incident in the history of violence against LGBT people in the United States, as well as the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks in 2001, and it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. In February 2018, 17 people were killed in a school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, leading to gun control regulations at both the state and federal level.[68] On June 24, 2021, a condominium in Surfside, Florida, near Miami collapsed, killing at least 97 people.[69] The Surfside collapse is tied with the Knickerbocker Theatre collapse as the third-deadliest structural engineering failure in United States history, behind the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse and the collapse of the Pemberton Mill.[70][71] Geography Main article: Geography of Florida See also: List of counties in Florida, List of places in Florida, List of municipalities in Florida, List of islands of Florida, and List of Florida state parks Florida is mostly low-lying and flat as this topographic map shows. Much of Florida is on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean and the Straits of Florida. Spanning two time zones, it extends to the northwest into a panhandle, extending along the northern Gulf of Mexico. It is bed on the north by Georgia and Alabama, and on the west, at the end of the panhandle, by Alabama. It is the state that bs both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Florida also is the southernmost of the 48 contiguous states, Hawaii being the one of the fifty states reaching farther south. Florida is west of the Bahamas and 90 miles (140 km) north of Cuba. Florida is one of the largest states east of the Mississippi River, and Alaska and Michigan are larger in water area. The water boundary is 3 nauti miles (3.5 mi; 5.6 km) in the Atlantic Ocean[72] and 9 nautical miles (10 mi; 17 km) in the Gulf of Mexico.[72] At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level, Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida and the lowest highpoint of any U.S. state.[73] Much of the state south of Orlando lies at a lower elevation than northern Florida, and is fairly level. Much of the state is at or near sea level. However, some places such as Clearwater have promontories that rise 50 to 100 ft (15 to 30 m) above the water. Much of Central and North Florida, typicy 25 mi (40 km) or more away from the coastline, have rolling hills with elevations ranging from 100 to 250 ft (30 to 76 m). The highest point in peninsular Florida (east and south of the Suwannee River), Sugarloaf Mountain, is a 312-foot (95 m) peak in Lake County.[74] On average, Florida is the flattest state in the United States. Fauna Further information: Fauna of Florida and List of invasive species in Florida An igator in the Everglades West Indian manatee Florida is host to many types of wild including: Marine mammals: bottlenose dolphin, short-finned pilot whale, North Atlantic right whale, West Indian manatee Mammals: Florida panther, northern river otter, mink, eastern cottontail rabbit, marsh rabbit, raccoon, striped skunk, squirrel, white-tailed deer, Key deer, bobcats, red fox, gray fox, coyote, wild boar, Florida black bear, nine-banded armadillos, Virginia opossum Reptiles: eastern diamondback and pygmy rattlesnakes, gopher tortoise, green and leatherback sea turtles,[101] brown anoles, and eastern indigo snake. In 2012, there were about one American igators and 1,500 crocodiles.[102] Birds: peregrine falcon,[103] bald eagle, American flamingo,[104] crested caracara, snail kite, osprey, white and brown pelicans, sea gulls, whooping and sandhill cranes, roseate spoonbill, American white ibis, Florida scrub jay (state endemic), and others. One subspecies of wild turkey, Meleagris gopavo osceola, is found in Florida.[105] The state is a wintering location for many species of eastern North American birds. As a result of climate change, there have been sm numbers of several species normy native to cooler areas to the north: sy owls, s buntings, harlequin ducks, and razorbills. These have been seen in the northern part of the state.[106] Invertebrates: carpenter ants, termites, American cockroach, Africanized bees, the Miami blue butterfly, and the grizzled mantis. Florida also has more than 500 nonnative animal species and 1,000 nonnative insects found throughout the state.[107] Some exotic species living in Florida include the Burmese python, green iguana, veiled chameleon, Argentine black and white tegu, peacock bass, mayan cichlid, lionfish, White-nosed coati, rhesus macaque, vervet monkey, Cuban tree frog, cane toad, Indian peafowl, monk parakeet, tui parakeet, and many more. Some of these nonnative species do not pose a threat to any native species, but some do threaten the native species of Florida by living in the state and eating them.[108] Flora Further information: Florida mangroves and List of invasive plant species in Florida Red mangroves in Everglades National Park The state has more than 26,000 square miles (67,000 km2) of forests, covering about half of the state's land area.[109] There are about 3,000 different types of wildflowers in Florida.[110] This is the third-most diverse state in the union, behind California and Texas, both larger states.[111] In Florida, wild populations of coconut palms extend up the East Coast from Key West to Jupiter Inlet, and up the West Coast from Marco Island to Sarasota. Many of the smest coral islands in the Florida Keys are kn to have abundant coconut palms sprouting from coconuts deposited by ocean currents. Coconut palms are cultivated north of south Florida to roughly Cocoa Beach on the East Coast and the Tampa Bay Area on the West Coast.[112] On the east coast of the state, mangroves have normy dominated the coast from Cocoa Beach southward; salt marshes from St. Augustine northward. From St. Augustine south to Cocoa Beach, the coast fluctuates between the two, depending on the annual weather conditions.[106] three mangrove species flower in the spring and early summer. Propagules f from late summer through early autumn.[citation needed] Florida mangrove plant communities covered an estimated 430,000 to 540,000 acres (1,700 to 2,200 km2) in Florida in 1981. Ninety percent of the Florida mangroves are in southern Florida, in Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. Florida Reef Main article: Florida Reef Fish and corals in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park near Key Largo The Florida Reef is the living coral barrier reef in the continental United States.[113] It is also the third-largest coral barrier reef system in the world, after the Barrier Reef and the Belize Barrier Reef.[114] The reef lies a little bit of the coast of the Florida Keys. A lot of the reef lies within John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, which was the first underwater park in the United States.[115] The park contains a lot of tropical vegetation, marine , and seabirds. The Florida Reef extends into other parks and sanctuaries as well including Dry Tortugas National Park, Biscayne National Park, and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Almost 1,400 species of marine plants and animals, including more than 40 species of stony corals and 500 species of fish, live on the Florida Reef.[116] The Florida Reef, being a delicate ecosystem like other coral reefs, faces many threats including overfishing, plastics in the ocean, coral bleaching, rising sea levels, and changes in sea surface temperature. [image in footer dar devider] [small logotype footer Expert Modern Advice]( ExpertModernAdvice.com brought to you by Inception Media Group. This editorial email with educational news was sent to {EMAIL}. IMG appreciates your comments and inquiries. Please keep in mind, that Inception Media Group are not permitted to provide individualized fіnancіal advіse. This email is not financial advice and any іnvestment decіsіon you make is solely your responsibility. Feel frее to contact us toll frее Domestic/International: +17072979173 Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm ET, or email us support@expertmodernadvice.com. 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