Luca Brasi
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I’m new to southeast Florida diving. May I have some opinions on your favorite dive shop and/or dive charter?
Dive shops southeast Florida
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Ana
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Southeast FL covers several counties you may want to use a shop within a city or two from when you live or work.
Charters may be a bit different but even that gets old to use far away ones. When I used charters I'd go to Boynton only once in a blue moon...I loved the dives up there but hated the drive back.
Where are you?
Charters may be a bit different but even that gets old to use far away ones. When I used charters I'd go to Boynton only once in a blue moon...I loved the dives up there but hated the drive back.
Where are you?
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THAT'S EASY !
Any SE FL dive shop that survived 3 months without sales money and had divers rushing back to them because they love their shop,
IS A GREAT SHOP !!
If the lights are on,,,,,Go inside,,,,,it's a Diver's Favorite shop !!
I try to avoid answering a question with a question(s) but...
What are your diving interests?
Do you have some skills and competencies you’d like to pursue in the future?
What are your diving interests?
Do you have some skills and competencies you’d like to pursue in the future?
Pura Vida Divers : Discover South Florida SCUBA Diving - Florida SCUBA Diving at its BEST!
Really great shop and crew.
Really great shop and crew.
drrich2
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Key Largo with Rainbow Reef Dive Center 2013 - http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/fl...iving-key-largo-rainbow-reef-dive-center.html (A lot's changed since I was there).
Jupiter 2014 - http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/florida-diving/491927-jupiter-trip-report-9-7-14-9-11-14-a.html
Emerald Charters Trip Report 2017 - Emerald Dive Charters Trip Report
Key Largo was mostly shallow with horizontal bottom rather than wall, spur and groove coral formations IIRC, nicely fishy, good diving; optional deep wreck dives like the Spiegel Grove and Duane were neat but quite deep and necessarily shorter. I got in 4 dives/day with Rainbow Reef Dive Center, which had no-added charge guide service, until some other area op.s. Very nice pricing for 10 trip, 20 dive package.
Jupiter was deeper diving, viz. a bit limited but fine, drift diving, near square profile, 'reef' was that growing atop a rocky plateau and more lawn-like than what I think of as reef, main draw was big animals - plenty of Goliath Grouper, some reef sharks and nurse sharks. Did 2 dives/day with Jupiter Dive Center.
Emerald Charters was about shark-feed diving, controversial as the trip report got into; if that's something you're cool with and want to do, know I was happy with the service, and at least at that time the typical plan was 3 dives/day. Not everyone wants to be under water close to a near 10-foot tiger shark coming in for food.
Blue Heron Bridge is cool and special; had one dive there. Have not dove West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Miami or the Ft. Lauderdale/Pompano Beach regions.
There's inland action, too; my wife and a buddy will never let me live down our trip to dive Alexander Spring. It was a really neat snorkel around the vegetated perimeter, but the 'dive' was a 26 foot deep central sloping 'hole' - turn a Mexican sombrero upside down, fill with water, and you've got a model of Alexander Spring, except it runs out one end. The lush shallow perimeter had gar, bowfin, a Florida soffshell turtle, 3striped mud turtles, a juvenile alligator...cool place (literally; I thin the water was 74 degrees or so).
Jupiter 2014 - http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/florida-diving/491927-jupiter-trip-report-9-7-14-9-11-14-a.html
Emerald Charters Trip Report 2017 - Emerald Dive Charters Trip Report
Key Largo was mostly shallow with horizontal bottom rather than wall, spur and groove coral formations IIRC, nicely fishy, good diving; optional deep wreck dives like the Spiegel Grove and Duane were neat but quite deep and necessarily shorter. I got in 4 dives/day with Rainbow Reef Dive Center, which had no-added charge guide service, until some other area op.s. Very nice pricing for 10 trip, 20 dive package.
Jupiter was deeper diving, viz. a bit limited but fine, drift diving, near square profile, 'reef' was that growing atop a rocky plateau and more lawn-like than what I think of as reef, main draw was big animals - plenty of Goliath Grouper, some reef sharks and nurse sharks. Did 2 dives/day with Jupiter Dive Center.
Emerald Charters was about shark-feed diving, controversial as the trip report got into; if that's something you're cool with and want to do, know I was happy with the service, and at least at that time the typical plan was 3 dives/day. Not everyone wants to be under water close to a near 10-foot tiger shark coming in for food.
Blue Heron Bridge is cool and special; had one dive there. Have not dove West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Miami or the Ft. Lauderdale/Pompano Beach regions.
There's inland action, too; my wife and a buddy will never let me live down our trip to dive Alexander Spring. It was a really neat snorkel around the vegetated perimeter, but the 'dive' was a 26 foot deep central sloping 'hole' - turn a Mexican sombrero upside down, fill with water, and you've got a model of Alexander Spring, except it runs out one end. The lush shallow perimeter had gar, bowfin, a Florida soffshell turtle, 3striped mud turtles, a juvenile alligator...cool place (literally; I thin the water was 74 degrees or so).
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