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Looking for a dive site recommendation. Some friends and family (and I) will be heading down to Key West tomorrow for a week. We'll bring a couple waverunners (not for diving from) and will also rent a boat for a couple days. My daughter and I dive so we were thinking of taking a tank each w/our gear down there. The thought was while we have the boat for a couple days, maybe make a stop somewhere for a quick dive.
We are both OW certified and have done a bit of drift diving as well as some wall dives in Grand Cayman, so usual diving is ~60' and we've gone to ~100'. I marked the Vandenberg off the list, that's one we'd do with a dive OP but not on our own. I was thinking Sand Key but wasn't sure if it was worthwhile to dive (vs snorkel), was wondering if we could tie to a buoy and some folks in the boat could snorkel from there and we could dive from there. But would want to be on the deeper side (assume that to be the ocean side of Sand Key). Another option was to do the Cayman Salvage wreck... it's about 65'. It can have a current but that is not too concerning. We'd just nix the dive if the Gulf Stream was ripping too much to enjoy it (safely).
Any recommendations?
We are both OW certified and have done a bit of drift diving as well as some wall dives in Grand Cayman, so usual diving is ~60' and we've gone to ~100'. I marked the Vandenberg off the list, that's one we'd do with a dive OP but not on our own. I was thinking Sand Key but wasn't sure if it was worthwhile to dive (vs snorkel), was wondering if we could tie to a buoy and some folks in the boat could snorkel from there and we could dive from there. But would want to be on the deeper side (assume that to be the ocean side of Sand Key). Another option was to do the Cayman Salvage wreck... it's about 65'. It can have a current but that is not too concerning. We'd just nix the dive if the Gulf Stream was ripping too much to enjoy it (safely).
Any recommendations?