Any diving from Sebastian Inlet???

[The Chairman]

I will be there this weekend with a group of boys from my church, and in another 2 weeks with the ScubaDucks. We will be camping there and I want to take the Ducks on a night dive off of the shore. Reasonable or not? (I guess I will find out this weekend) :tease:

 

[augie]

There's really nothing to see within swimming distance off of the beach at Sebastian Inlet that I'm aware of.

I have seen divers on the north side of the inlet, just outside of the tidal pool, but you will want to limit diving there to just a little bit either side of slack tide, as the current can get rather strong.

Also, you may have to contend with fishermen.

Wish I had better news for you.

 

[cudachaser]

there shallow reefs extending down to Ft Pierce. The reefs are very close to shore and quite interesting...Only problem is that they are very weather sensitive any sea state will dirty the water. Seas would have been small enough to promote good diving earlier this week but winds have picked up from the east and will probably mess things up this weekend

 

[jlyfsh]

NetDoc once bubbled...
I will be there this weekend with a group of boys from my church, and in another 2 weeks with the ScubaDucks. We will be camping there and I want to take the Ducks on a night dive off of the shore. Reasonable or not? (I guess I will find out this weekend) :tease:

No, no, no Pete. The current is way too swift there and the girls will get much too spooked and the vis, forget the vis. Take 'em on a night dive in a real controled enviroment, like Key Largo. Keep it simple, we'll go and help if you want, but no spooky stuff just yet please.

 

[The Chairman]

going in or out??? OH YEAH! Slack tide... ask your instructor about it sometime... :tease:

 

[The Chairman]

precluded me from diving around it... which left the vast wasteland of sand, sand and more sand. Well the bazillions of sand dollars love it! No current to speak of vis was at least 25/30 feet. Got to see a few spider crabs and a beautiful unidentified crab (looked like coral and its legs were very flat and looked like they would blend well too. 30ft/48 minutes... I surfaced with 2100 and my student had 500. We did have a nice and long surface swim to get back to shore... which was a very easy entrance/exit.

Did a snorkle dive in the "mud hole" or tidal pool right by the bridge and that was cool Vis was no more than ten feet and I happened onto a HUGE snook and a ton of sheepshead. Orange coral and lots of feather dusters... more spider crabs, sand crabs, rock crabs with a few blues to boot. Mullet, salor's choice, zebras, and more made it far more productive than the acres and acres of sand north of the jetty.

 

[augie]

That tidal pool is where my boys learned to snorkle.

It's safe, but there's enough life to hold their attention.

How far off shore did you have to swim to get to 30 ft?

 

[The Chairman]

is we were not quite a half mile out. Made for a good exhilirating surface swim... :tease: