"If you're putting that offshore fishing trip on the back burner due to rapidly rising fuel costs, you can still nail the big ones from the . The south side — 8,250 feet long, with 571 parking spaces — is the longest fishing pier in the world. ... s attract marine life. There are 65 of them along the south side and 18 running perpendicular to the north pier. The underwater structures owe their existence to a tragedy: the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in May 1980, when a freighter crashed into a bridge support during a terrible storm (35 people died). Rubble from the collapsed bridge was placed on the sandy bottom to form the reefs."
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