<P> The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Spanish: Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south - southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba . It is 150 km (93 mi) wide at the narrowest point between Key West and the Cuban shore, and has been sounded to a depth of 6,000 feet (1,800 m). The strait carries the Florida Current, the beginning of the Gulf Stream, from the Gulf of Mexico . </P> <P> Five wells were drilled in state waters south of the Florida Keys from 1947 to 1962 . Gulf Oil drilled three wells in federal waters south of the Florida Keys in 1960 and 1961 . All the wells were dry holes . </P>

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