CaveSloth
Contributor
I have been working on a list of spring diving sites with the following criteria:
- Open to the public. Not requiring a difficult to obtain permit.
- No salt water.
- No sulfur.
- Difficult to silt out / good to great average visibility.
- Not requiring to spend lots of time deeper than 100ft.
- Not requiring sidemount, nomount or passing through restrictions.
- Allow / doable in backmount doubles.
- Doable using air or nitrox.
- Best of the best locations for those with up to Cave 1 level of certification.
- Alexander Spring (Altoona)
- Blue Grotto (Williston)
- Blue Spring (Orange City)
- Bozel Spring (Marianna)
- Buford Spring (Weekie Wachee)
- Cypress Spring (Vernon)
- Fanning Spring (Fanning Springs)
- Ginnie (Ballroom) (High Springs)
- Ginnie (Devil's Ear) (High Springs)
- Ginnie (Devil's Eye) (High Springs)
- Hole in the Wall (Marianna)
- Ichetucknee (Blue Spring / Jug Hole) (Fort White)
- Jackson Blue (Marianna)
- Little River (Branford)
- Madison (Main) (Lee)
- Manatee (Catfish Hotel) (Chiefland)
- Manatee (Main) (Chiefland)
- Morrison (Defuniak Springs)
- Paradise Spring (Ocala)
- Peacock (Main) (Mayo)
- Peacock (Orange Grove) (Mayo)
- Rainbow River (KP Hole) (Dunneleon)
- Telford (Mayo)
- Troy Spring (Branford)
- Twin Cave (Marianna)
- Vortex Spring (Defuniak Springs)
- Warm Springs (Weekie Wachee)