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Breakwater Cove on Sunday 10/1 15 - 25' on the jetty wall. Spotted 3 different nudibranch species, crabs, shrimp, and one largish ling cod. Lots of starfish eating sea nettles on the bottom. 5'-10' on the pipe heading out to the metridium fields but opened up to 15-25' past the pipe...

Yep, FL panhandle is effectively blown out through Saturday at the earliest. Rest of FL is not better. We just cancelled a trip to WPB and keys for this weekend as the forecast in WPB is even worse and the upper keys are marginal at best.

I'm not super familiar with the diving up towards Ft Lauderdale, but if you can make it to the upper keys, there is lots of easy diving. Reef diving in the Key Largo area is mostly shallow 30-40' dives in very good visibility. Many of the shops there will include divemasters on every dive...

Bull sharks are the most common type in our area and are usually 'around' most of the dive sites, if not readily visible. Not uncommon to see a single or pair if you know how to look at the edges of visibility - much less common to see them this close or in larger groups (we saw 7 together here...

Yeah, I've upped mine to 30 seconds which does help.

Some highlights of reef and bull sharks visiting us during a double-dip to the YTD-14 Navy Dive Tender off Pensacola, Florida recently. Best watched in HD mode. Video Shot in natural light with a Hero5 and magenta filter and lightly post-processed for white balance. The water was pretty...

I love my i450T. My impressions thus far: For software, I switched to Subsurface which has the correct driver to grab dives via USB. Much better features than the Aqualung software and it's free. With the gas integration, subsurface can plot your instantaneous SAC rate over the entire dive...

Water was still in the 80's the 1st weekend in November last year off Destin - not likely to be much different off Gulf Shores. It was 84 at 115 feet 25 miles south of Pensacola yesterday.

All good advice so far. Weather is fine well into November for diving the panhandle. Most of my diving is centered on Destin since I live in Fort Walton Beach, but there are great dives and shops from PCB, Destin, and Pensacola. You're not unlikely to find Skeptic14 or myself on Scubatech's...

I've had a duo rig since April and run a Hero5 on the cold shoe for video. Overall, I'm very impressed and it takes great pictures in RAW mode - even under challenging lighting conditions. See my recent post on the Flower Gardens for links to lots of sample photos. As already mentioned, it...

PCB is mostly wreck and artificial reef diving - so I would say night dives wouldn't be extraordinary vs diving on natural reefs. I did a 3 tank trip with Panama City Dive Center last fall, but I've also found 2 tank trips are the norm. If you want to maximize diving, some shops will run a...

Red Sea & Strength are pretty common destinations for inshore trips, sometimes swapping one out for a bridge span. Here are some gopro videos and pics from a trip I made last year: Strength Red Sea

I had a good trip with H20 below.

Got back Wednesday evening from a 3 day trip aboard the M/V Fling. Conditions were somewhat rough for most of the dives with surface and sometimes bottom current, but there was plenty to see! Being comfortable with using a current assist line and doing rough water exits goes are key...

+1 for Ginnie Springs as an easy spring diving destination that offers more than a few minutes of sights to see. Rental gear should be no issue - they run a steady stream of gear in and out of their shop. Ichetucknee Springs is great too. As mentioned, if you're camping there on the...

Let me know if you're coming through. I'm usually out diving on one of the local charters weekly or more.

The pool is open! As I've been slowly expanding my worldwide diving experiences, I still find Destin to compare favorably with most in the density and variety of critters.

Here's the closest shot of the big bull shark when it passed in front of Skeptic14. Full album on Flickr Also, video from my Hero5 - shark passes are at the start followed by the 1st Goliath Grouper swimming away from the ship. Watch in HD mode for best viewing.

The 'standard' Scubatech 2 tank trip is a 80 - 90' dive on a natural reef, then 1 hour surface interval, and dive on a wreck or artificial reef in the 65 - 75' range so nitrox will almost always buy more time - especially on the 2nd dive. When surface traffic permits, the Whitehill Reef +...

Sunday morning's dives from the Sea Cobra were pretty epic for my son and I - Liberty Ship and Whitehill Reef. We had nearly 80' vertical vis which is very uncommon. For those interested, here's some photo highlights: Virgil Zetterlind as well as a highlight video that gives a better...