florida keys

Dear Sisters of the Sea! Fellow Bubble Blowers UNITE! Single, Christian senior lady in Vero Beach, Florida for 5 years and have not YET been diving in the Keys! Blue Heron Bridge in Rivera Beach is the closest I have been. Love it by the way! BUT...I would like to connect with lady divers...

Hi all! I'm a 20yo undergraduate junior studying Physics and Earth Science planning to take a gap year from 2025-26 before rolling into a Planetary or Marine Science PhD program. I'm AOW certified with a smattering of specialties, and I've been OW certified for 7 years with ~70 dives spread...

I made this compilation video for anyone who is interested(mostly macro, from BHB, FLA Keys, Jupiter and Pompano B.). TY. <iframe src="" width="1920" height="1080" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" title="Shallow Seas of Florida"></iframe>

Each year many divers descend upon the Florida Keys for recreational mini-lobster season (the last Wed & Thur of July) and later for regular lobster season (Aug 6 thru Mar 31). Have fun but please stay safe & dive within your limits and with buddies you are familiar with. Every year there are...

Adaptive land clinic skills started this morning in Key Largo Florida. Here Diveheart instructor trainer Gabe Espino reviews some of the innovative evaluation tools that are used in the Diveheart adaptive training program. You can get started as an adaptive dive buddy or instructor here...

Scuba friends, My wife and I are hoping to take a dive vacation to Florida this July - with COVID shutdowns, we have only been able to dive the lakes and quarries here in Utah for a year and haven't been to the ocean for close to two years now. We are planning to spend 10 days diving in Florida...

We are so proud to share this weeks water women podcast interview featuring Diveheart's very own Rachel Crane, Diveheart Training Coordinator...Hope you'll share it with others. https://anchor.fm/.../37--Captaining-an-Ecological...

Ted Harty to give a virtual presentation on Freediving and Dive Safety Hosted by the History of Diving Museum on July 15th With mini-lobster season around the corner, dive agencies and shops frequently focus on safety as a topic for education outreach. To help spread the word, the History of...

Hi fellow divers. Ian from Reef Smart Guides here. We’re planning our new guidebook for the Florida Keys. In the book we plan to describe ALL the sites in the Keys, but we will only be creating 3D maps and models for only about 30-35. We’ve developed a tentative list of what we think might be...

Big Day in Florida Today with Diveheart! While a Diveheart team spreads the gospel of Adaptive Scuba & Scuba Therapy at the DEMA dive show in Orlando, a Diveheart Scuba Experience in Fort Lauderdale with Gold Coast Scuba at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club is introducing New Adaptive Divers to Zero...

Traveling by car through the southeastern United States, we went through 4 states. Adventurous travel, with manatee diving on Crystal River and Key Largo wrecks, nightlife in New Orleans, and trails on Ormond Beach .... enjoy all this, with many breathtaking underwater and aerial images !!

I’ve finally decided to sell my trusty 2002 Triton 2300WA. The boat may be leaving but with the aid of some photos, I’ll still have the memories, at least for a while. In 2010, the cold December from hell found us in the keysat Venture Out. Months later we discovered Google Earth snapped an...

I'm going to be in the Keys this July. We are a group of divers and snorkelers. Any suggestions for good dives (and operators), especially if we will be with snorkelers too? I have seen one possibility is Molasses Reef (looks like it's near Key Largo)? Some of the group are pretty new...

Head to History of Diving Museum on Wednesday, April 17 at 7 pm for a FREE presentation! Have you ever wondered what opportunities there are to get involved with researching and preserving your local environment and its creatures? Join Carlos and Allison Estape as they provide examples of how...

Florida International University’s Center for Coastal Oceans Research is auctioning a once in a lifetime opportunity for a group of four people to dive Aquarius Reef Base, the world’s only undersea research laboratory, and stay at Baker’s Cay Resort in Key Largo. The prize package includes...

Hi Everyone, Going to be camping at Bahia Honda State Park for 10 days in November and I'm planning ahead, calling dive shops and reading threads on this site and others. I haven't dove in many years so I'm taking a refresher course before I head down. Wanting to dive 40 ft at the max. So far...

What do you do when when bad weather cancels your Key Largo diving??? You go to Key West and have fun! Diveheart participants and volunteers made the best of a canceled dive day by heading south and having fun in Key west. Todays looking tough too, but our back up plan is to dive Pennekamp park...

Hi Scubaboard Friends, It's been a while since we've posted for HDM! We wanted to let you know all is well in Islamorada. 2017 has been a busy and crazy year. Close out the year with an exciting Immerse Yourself presentation with Capt. Jon Hazelbaker. He will be sharing his adventures in the...

Hi, I'll be going to the Keys the weekend of June 3rd. I am not very familiar with lower Keys dive shops except Looe Key reef resort/dive center and Strike Zone charters. Looking for dive shops that have smaller boats, i.e. 6 packs? Looe Key dive center has a 6 pack boat but I'll be diving by...

Another tourist asking for advice thread... Planning a family vacation to the Keys over the summer. It'll be me, my wife, our infant, my sister, her husband, and their toddler. We're staying in Tavernier for 10 days in late July and plan to trade babysitting duties while the other couple gets...