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).