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isn't that the truth lol I took on a second job and still have no money... I dive a lot
Me and my Cousin (who has more experience diving and works at a dive shop) figured we'd do a shore dive/spearfishing/lobstering off Scout Key. I havent been there in a decade, but knew the reef real well then. Park was closed so we lauched off the boat inlet on the other side. Figured long ass surface swim out to the reef then dive. Current ripped us under the bridge and we had to fight it, then surface swim a few hundred yards. The sandbars gotten much shallower and covered in grass... cant walk it youll go though it. Duck walked a good ways. Started surface swimming out to the main reef which should be due East of the island by about a quarter mile. 2hrs fighting a mild current surface swimming and no reef in site... Tide changed to incoming with an outgoing undertoe and were in 12' of water with 10' visability, and oh our dive flag was towing a chum block, At dusk... which got ditched real fast. WE Called it then. If we hadnt called it then, or stopped a swimming for any reason wed have been picked up by the Coast guard. 3hrs of kicking it on the surface or literally crawling on the bottom, sucking gas. Used a total of 700 psi, lost my tilos fins and my kracken 900l light. Reefs 10 years ago arent the same... Conditions change real quick. Shore dive and Keys dont belong in the same sentence.
Nice place. I was there in March vis was about 10 feet at best. Drove down and camped for the weekend. It was a great 4 days
