Florida's Ten Worst Dive Sites

[Walter]

1. South Jack Wreck - Bradenton
2. FP&L Exhaust Canal - Fort Myers (I'm not sure this one qualifies sines you are no longer allowed to dive there.
3. Sunset Cove - Key Largo
4. Granada Lakes - Fort Myers
5. Ginnie Springs - High Sprimgs
6. Looe Key - Big Pine Key
7. Casperson Beach - Venice
8. Hankley Lake - Hawthorne
9. Lake Denton - Avon Park
10. Spring Quarries - Brandford

As for others folks have listed:

The 30' Balls in Pompano actual name is Pompano Drop Off - an excellent site with lots of life.

Fort Lauderdale Caves - lots of life, very enjoyable dive

Qualman tugs - just shells of what looks to be rowboats - pretty big row boats, but pretty small as shipwrecks go, but then they are not ships and there are several of them all with lots of life.

Copenhagen - Very interesting dive, the Copenhagen is on Pompano Drop Off.

Wreck of the Regina (Sugar Barge) - While far from one of the best sites, it's still very interesting (and much larger than any automobile) and has lots of life.

The Trench - Boca Trench is a beautiful site where I've often seen several turtles on a single dive. The Trench is farther north off Palm Beach, but it's also a fun site where turtles are common.

Blue Grotto - pretty good as fresh water dives go, but it is fresh water and therefore always in the running for selection as a poor dive site.

Epcot Center - Pools and aquariums don't count as dives - geeze.

The others I've either not dived or I agree they are not good dive sites.

 

[Walter]

as you could probably guess, I am a wreck fan.

I would not guess that at all. You included Qualman tugs and Copenhagen on your list of worst dive sites. While neither would make my list of top wreck sites, they are interesting wrecks. I suspect you are not really a wreck fan, but a fan of specific types of wrecks - big and not broken up?

 

[Thalassamania]

3. Sunset Cove - Key Largo
6. Looe Key - Big Pine Key

Epcot Center - Pools and aquariums don't count as dives - geeze.

I'm not disagreeing with the others, just seconding your choice of these three.

 

[Walter]

Thal, why did you dive Sunset Cove? I played victim for a friend's rescue class there.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

One of my best dives was at Looe Key years ago, and I look forward to going back. Ginnie Springs can be boring, if you want it to be. My last 3 dives there were some of the best I have done there!
The worst dive in S. Florida, my opinion.. South Beach Beach Dive.

 

[DennisS]

The Miami River
Artificial reef off of Mercy Hospital in Coconut Grove
Black Point Channel, Cutler Ridge

 

[Thalassamania]

We were down there to do some work with Aquarius, had breakfast at Mrs. Mac's, I needed to test a new pair of fins and Sunset Cove was close by.

 

[diveman3]

Tienuts I like your icon..ha

 

[TSandM]

Boy, Ginnie Springs was my pick for my best dive of 2007! (Of course, we went IN . . .)

 

[Scubastud16]

Boy, Ginnie Springs was my pick for my best dive of 2007! (Of course, we went IN . . .)

That's what I was thinking. Any spring can get old just hanging out around it, but it's the inside that interests most people!