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  1. Capt Slate

    Key Largo dive shops (Other than Conch Republic)

    Captain Slate's SCUBA Adventures runs boats out to the beautiful reefs off Tavernier at 8:30 am and 1 pm most days. See you underwater!
  2. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Wow, sorry for the absence been busy with the new place but weather has been perfect until yesterday, we got a quick blow through the keys gusts up to 45 knts. or more everyone got home safely we knew it was coming. Today we got a west wind approx 15kn. most everyone is out there, west wind is...
  3. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Sorry gang been busy with stuff and getting relocated but it has been a wonderful last part so far of Feb. and I hope you got the gear out of the closet if you haven't touched it lately and getting it to your local dive operator to get tuned up for the season, and the season is here! 2-3 feet...
  4. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Holy Cow, another July day again, got sunburned on the boat yesterday, we dove Pillar Coral Reef and the Conch Wall, great dives and zero seas and it is that way again today! So get down here and enjoy July in Feb, just looking at the nat. weather and where else in the USA would you rather...
  5. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    And we have another banner day today, gentle winds about 8 knts from the North making the sea calm near shore and a foot on the outside reefs, so what are ya waiting for? Still 75-76 degree water! What winter weather? Not in the keys anyway. Usually we get a cold front or two in Feb and so far...
  6. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Sorry missed a few days but the weather is again perfect, light breeze out of the S at 8 knts and 1-2 feet max everywhere, definitely dive weather. So come on down, supposed to be better this weekend, not that it has to be better then what we got to have fun! So come on down to the keys and do...
  7. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Happy Super Bowl, should be a great game and I am sure most of ya are watching it. I rarely get to watch a football game since I work every weekend but I am sitting down and watching this one..beautiful dive this morning, just a little swell like 3' occasionally 4' but lying down as we speak...
  8. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Ok we do have a third day of rain, but there is no wind and the rain is slight so we are out there having fun. Yesterday there was 100' + in the Spiegel Grove. Today light winds out of the N and that is making our sea state lest then a foot. We have just been having almost flat calm seas for...
  9. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Well here we go as usual the weather report from Miami last night was 25 Knt winds 'rough' water condidtions!!! WRONG AGAIN AND AGAIN. It is barely blowing a gentle breeze out of the SE and just got back from the morning trip and it is barely 2' so what the heck planet are the weather reporters...
  10. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Hello divers, well a bit sporty out today but we are diving for sure. The wind is out of the N at 15knts so we got a good wind direction, N and W are the best directions for the upper keys. So we got seas at 2-3 on the inner reefs and 3-4 on the Spiegel Grove. Morning temp air was up to 63...
  11. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Sorry everyone, I been absent on the weather reports, just got busy doing boat repairs (never stops) and kid stuff. Today like since last Friday is flat calm and beautiful, actually zero seas, winds are less then 6knts from the West and that gives us no seas in the upper portion of the keys. We...
  12. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Sorry gang been off the 'air' just putting up with some windy weather the past couple days and finally it has laid down and we are back in action, hardly a breeze today 10 knts. NE and viz got back up to 40' on the outside and a bit less on the inner reefs, 25'. Hope many of you got down for the...
  13. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    RickI, agree much of the 'dead' reefs are coming back in the last 10 years and Ken from Coral Reef Restoration has put thousands of new coral 'seedlings' all over the upper keys on popular reefs and it has been growing like hell, so the healthy water is still here just need a little help from...
  14. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Happy New Years Eve, hope all of your are parking yourselves at a fireworks show we are shooting the KL show here and hope to see ya, a bit rainy right now, wind is about 12 out of the NE supposed to be less later today, seas are only 1-3 on the reef. Yesterday was picture perfect with hardly a...
  15. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Thanks you weather Gods, it is very nice and supposed to stay that way through the weekend and beyond! Yes we have a gently wind out of the E at 9 knts. and loving it, barely 2 foot seas. So if you were doubting the weather, and some weather reports are absolutely 180 degrees wrong then I am...
  16. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Merry Christmas to all, and after a great Christmas dinner put the dive gear in the car and head to the Fla. Keys!! NetDoc is out today with us and having fun, it is a bit windy today, 10-15 knts out of the East and 2-3 on the inside and 2-4 max on the outer reefs but easy rollers and we are...
  17. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    A little bumpy today, we dove the outside and it was 3-5 feet, doable but a bit bumpy, supposed to lay down again tonight and hopefully for the entire week of the Christmas holidays, so call today and book your hotel and favorite dive operation. Our divers today didn't even wear a wetsuit and...
  18. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Well, back to the winds today, blowing about 15 out of the E, not our best wind in the upper keys, however we are out and the seas are running about 3-5, fortunately on a deep dive like we are on today you can get under the surge, very sunny and warm, so get the gear out and put in the trunk of...
  19. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    See some of ya didn't listen to me, when the weather was perfect in Sept and Oct you waited and now we get winds a couple times a week, got some today, not too bad but 15 out of the SE and seas are about 2-3 inside and 3-5 on the outer reefs. Again divable but don't sit on the boat, get in the...
  20. Capt Slate

    Key Largo daily dive report

    Well, still a bit sporty on the reef but not bad, wind is approx. 10-15 from the ESE and seas are only 1-3 on the inter reef and about 2-4 on the outside, but gentle rollers and definitely divable, yesterday we were out and by 3 pm it almost was flat calm, but did pick up overnight a bit. Water...
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