Diver's Guide to Florida
Get Your Adventure Started: Whether you are a Florida native or a visitor from out of state, we can help you plan your next diving adventure here in the world’s Number One dive destination. We’ve put together a comprehensive directory of more than 400 dive sites, dive stores and dive charter operators (and we are just getting started). Search our interactive Google™ Map or look for dive sites or dive operators by region. More…
User-Customizable Dive Watch Solves Important Issue
Ocean7’s New LM-1 debuts as world’s first user customizable professional diver’s watch. The Ocean7 Watch Company has solved an issue that has dogged watch wearers for years: the ability to customize, clean or service their own watch bezel. The new LM-1 features the world’s first user removable and interchangeable bezel system for a professional diver’s watch. “We spent over a year designing and developing the LM-1. Our watch includes all the tools necessary for a user to change between the four available bezels, and clean or service the bezel mechanism.” Learn more…
At Blue Grotto, Size Matters
Size matters. This helps explain the popularity of Blue Grotto, the largest, clear-water cavern dive in Florida. Not only is Blue Grotto the biggest such site of its kind, it almost always offers exceptional visibility — the very factor that draws divers to this part of Florida in the first place. Located in the heart of Florida’s spring-diving country, draws divers of all experience levels, from beginning students to technical divers. Blue Grotto has become the training location of choice for dive instructors across the southeast. Learn more…
March is Florida Archaeology Month
Every March the state of Florida celebrates its history, archaeology, and heritage with a month-long celebration. Sponsored by an assortment of state agencies, Florida Archaeology Month (FAM) aims to acquaint citizens and visitors with the spectacular remains of our state’s past located underground and underwater. Educational events and outreach activities are designed to encourage people to learn about Florida’s past and about how they can help to protect these fragile and non-renewable resources. Learn more…
Spring 2010 Heritage Awareness Diving Seminar
In beginning scuba courses, new divers are taught to protect natural resources, like how to control their buoyancy to avoid breaking coral, so why aren’t they also taught to protect shipwrecks and underwater cultural resources? Toward this end the Florida Public Archaeology Network and the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research developed the Heritage Awareness Diving Seminar (HADS). The purpose of the Seminar is to explain the advantages of conserving shipwrecks and other submerged cultural resources, not only to preserve information about our collective past, but also to preserve the vibrant ecosystems that grow around shipwrecks. Learn more…
Did You Know?
- Florida is home to more divers, more dive stores and more dive boats than any other dive destination.
- More divers visit Florida every year than any other dive destination.
- With over 1,300 miles of coastline and thousands of rivers, lakes and springs, Florida has more dive sites — and a greater diversity of dive sites — than any other dive destination.
- Florida is the only major dive destination most USA divers can either fly or drive to.
- If you lined up Florida’s six most popular wreck diving sites end to end, they would stretch for nearly 3,000 feet. (The hundreds of diveable wrecks the state offers would stretch for miles.)
If you dive and you haven’t discovered all that Florida offers, you are — quite literally — missing the boat.