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I went diving with Capt. Popeye and DM Skip with Aqua Life Divers out of Pompano on Sunday morning, April 16, 2023. The first dive was on the Third Reef, the Berry Patch. Visibility was poor. I thought it might have been better from what I had seen kitesurfing in recent days but no joy. A...

Diving is a weather dependent sport, even at Blue Heron Bridge and more than we might have thought. Time to tune into wx a bit more closely, things like hazardous weather forecasts, radar, etc.. There is some weather you don't want to be out in particularly on such a violent weather day. There...

Free diving a companionway of the United Caribbean yesterday with SFDH. I was using a GoPro Hero7 without a red filter in a chest harness using available light. I just trimmed the video and did no other image or color correction. I am impressed with the quality of the imagary and color...

We were fortunate to come across some shoals of silverside minnows on the Key Largo Northern Dry Rocks on Saturday. Here is a clip of diving through the "minnow cave."

I visited the wreck of the Lofthus late yesterday afternoon. I was surprised to see heavy growth of worm rock or Sabellariid reef growth all over the place. Some even resembled a thick corrugated carpet over some of the hull ribs. I don't recall having seen such heavy growth out there before...

I was wondering how common is this, coming in and touching the divers forehead, not attempting to bite it, in the case of monk seals? I had this happen twice over 20 minute interval on a single dive off Lehua a few days ago. Thank you

Just how common is this, coming in and touching the divers forehead, not attempting to bite it, in the case of monk seals? I had this happen twice over 20 minute interval on a single dive off Lehua afew days ago. I'll upload photos of the encounter when I can. Thank you

CLICK photo for underwater video of wreck. The wreck of the J. S. Seaverns was found earlier in this year. This passenger steamer went aground on a reef off Michiictoen Island on My 10, 1884. During attempts to pull her off the vessel sank. The vessel was constructed up from the bottom...

This story seemed strange to me at first, but with some checking it appears like it actually happened back in 1956. A large shark, possibly a white shark blew up a dory with the detonation of two bombs it was carrying, killing two naval personnel and leading to the loss of both legs for one...

There is a great Broward Maritime Museum meeting for this Friday, January 29, 2016 at 6 pm. The guest speaker is John Chatterton of the book "Shadow Divers" and German Wold Pack Submarine U-869 fame. He will be presenting a video about this dramatic discovery and a great deal of even more...

This happened in 1973 with scuba gear in use at the time so it should fill the bill of a vintage story with a present day lead in: Owls Head near Rockland, the area of the rescue. The Maine Marine Patrol secured a lobster boat running in circles out of control with no one at the wheel...

The guys are getting organized with the intent of installing the Maritime Museum of Broward County at a permanent location in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. There is a meeting tomorrow night, Thursday, in that regard. It has existed as a traveling exhibit prior to this time. Some of the highlights...

Army Special Forces Underwater Operations School makes its mark on Key West | Article | The United States Army The facility is used for various training courses including the six-week Combat Diver Qualification Course. "The course, which is offered five times per year, sees about 36 to 42...

This may not be news to some on here but I thought it worth mentioning for the rest of us. Other than the odd published attack, I wasn't aware of bull sharks being in the Intracoastal and connected water bodies with much frequency. I thought perhaps around inlets at tide changes. It looks...

I finally got around to doing a write up on the 1898 wreck of the Lofthus. I was impressed by just how much of the wreck was exposed a couple of weeks ago with the dropping of the sand level. Now would be a good time to visit the wreck before the sand comes back up. It is a hike from the...

A blue shark Blue shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A very experienced underwater photographer was shooting a rare 8 to 9 ft. blue shark in the warm shallows of the flats near Summerland Key in the lower Florida Keys. The following information comes in part from recent Facebook posts...

Reportedly two and perhaps three commercial spearfishermen were free diving shooting cobia with Hawaiian slings off Jupiter this afternoon in 50 ft. of water. Two divers were returning to the 18 ft. boat with a cobia. Once the fish had been dropped over the gunnel into the boat, a bull shark...

Le Rubis "Le Rubis" is a sunken Saphir-class minelaying 216 ft. submarine which served in the French Navy and Free French Navy during the Second World War. It was commissioned in 1931 and struck from the list in 1949. It was sunk as a sonar target that year. It is located in 41 m (135 ft)...

I tried some different editing on GoPro still images from a dive on the Sea Emperor on Sunday. More images at: Video - Free Diving Interior Of The Sea Emperor - FKA Kiteboarding Forums .

Kirk Krack of PFI has gotten together with some underwater enthusiasts such as Ren Chapman, Goh Iromoto and Shell Eisenberg among others, to create a creative video clip series dealing with free diving in unusual settings. The first installment was just launched yesterday, see below...