I'd like to steer away from the charter scuba diving operators on my next dive trip to Florida, and try to dive some of the "off road" sites not visited by the regular commercial charters. I've got a boat where I live and dive cold water wrecks rather frequently, so I've got the experience,and I've got the GPS numbers, I just need to find a boat!
Don't even need sonar or GPS, which are now available on portable devices.
The problem I'm finding after calling around is that 1) boat rentals are rather expensive and 2) most places don't want dive gear on their rental boats and 3) they don't want most of their boats out on "the ocean". From what I can tell most of the diveable wrecks I'd be interested are within 5 miles of the coastline.
In fact South Florida Boat rentals which covers over a half dozen locations only has "one" 26' center console that is allowed for diving.
So I'm just wondering if anyone knows of other boat rental places from Jupiter through the Keys that allows dive gear and aren't crazy expensive that can be taken a few miles offshore.
Thanks
Don't even need sonar or GPS, which are now available on portable devices.
The problem I'm finding after calling around is that 1) boat rentals are rather expensive and 2) most places don't want dive gear on their rental boats and 3) they don't want most of their boats out on "the ocean". From what I can tell most of the diveable wrecks I'd be interested are within 5 miles of the coastline.
In fact South Florida Boat rentals which covers over a half dozen locations only has "one" 26' center console that is allowed for diving.
So I'm just wondering if anyone knows of other boat rental places from Jupiter through the Keys that allows dive gear and aren't crazy expensive that can be taken a few miles offshore.
Thanks