We're heading to Key Largo the end of March. Think we're interested in a dive resort combination. The most important thing is great diving. Am comfortable diving with or without a dive master, down past 100 feet, open water. Like to use up our tanks and get hour long dives when dive time permits. Know alot of operators limit your bottm time. Want someplace comfortable and pleasant to stay BUT the most important is great diving.
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Try Port Largo Villas or Marina del Mar for a place in Key Largo. I like Ocean Divers but the are several other operators in the area from 6 pack to cattle style
I don't think anyone will let you "use up your tank" - Most ops there have the "back on the boat with 500psi rule"
Also... when you say "dive resort" are you looking for a Roatan/Bonaire type of dive resort, or are you looking for just a dive op?
Also... when you say "dive resort" are you looking for a Roatan/Bonaire type of dive resort, or are you looking for just a dive op?
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...and found them to be a first class operation. Ocean Divers is right next door, but I was diving with "KeyLargoBrent" on Blue Water Divers, which is right around the corner, next to the Holiday Inn. Blue Water Divers is a first class operation as well, with great attention to detail, good predive briefings, and an uncrowded boat. Even with a full load of 10 divers on board, there was LOTS of room to rig gear and move around.
We had a great time, and will be back at Key Largo soon to dive with these folks!
We had a great time, and will be back at Key Largo soon to dive with these folks!
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For operators hms minnow and conch republic divers would be a good choice, hms minnow runs pkgs with holiday inn where there boat is docked, i hear good things about bluewater divers but i have no personal experience with them and i think they are docked by holiday inn also but not sure
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Another vote for BlueWaterDivers. Brent, and Capt. Marval run a good op.
I'm not sure that any OP is going to let you burn a tank on a shallow reef dive. Every one I've talked to allows 60minutes BT. They have schedules to keep, but if you could find some other divers, and get the entire boat for a day, then you could likely get max bottom time. I can go 90 minutes easy on an AL80 on a shallow reef, and that is not going to work for a DiveOp that is running two trips (four tanks).
We stayed at Ocean Pointe. They are nice Condo's south of Largo. These are a in the $150 per night range, but roomy and comfortable. I did a write up on them a while back (8/2005 maybe) you can likely still find it. We also have stayed at Marina Del Mar, Brent booked us a room, and it was under $100 per night. The pool is great, the rooms were a bit outdated, but clean, and had microwaves are refrigerators in them which is nice for essentials like BEER
I'm not sure Blue Water Divers is setup for overnight gear storage. That was one thing I like to see in an op if I'm diving them for several days as it's nice to not have to drag gear around between dive days.
I should also add that this topic comes up a LOT. I've responded at least a few times to this exact question in the past two or three months. You like don't even need to do a search, just go through a few pages of Conch listings, and you will see many questions and recommendations for Largo DiveOps, and accomodations.
I'm not sure that any OP is going to let you burn a tank on a shallow reef dive. Every one I've talked to allows 60minutes BT. They have schedules to keep, but if you could find some other divers, and get the entire boat for a day, then you could likely get max bottom time. I can go 90 minutes easy on an AL80 on a shallow reef, and that is not going to work for a DiveOp that is running two trips (four tanks).
We stayed at Ocean Pointe. They are nice Condo's south of Largo. These are a in the $150 per night range, but roomy and comfortable. I did a write up on them a while back (8/2005 maybe) you can likely still find it. We also have stayed at Marina Del Mar, Brent booked us a room, and it was under $100 per night. The pool is great, the rooms were a bit outdated, but clean, and had microwaves are refrigerators in them which is nice for essentials like BEER
I'm not sure Blue Water Divers is setup for overnight gear storage. That was one thing I like to see in an op if I'm diving them for several days as it's nice to not have to drag gear around between dive days.
I should also add that this topic comes up a LOT. I've responded at least a few times to this exact question in the past two or three months. You like don't even need to do a search, just go through a few pages of Conch listings, and you will see many questions and recommendations for Largo DiveOps, and accomodations.
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