If you are staying near Tarpon Springs, you are pretty far away from Florida's best ocean diving (with all due respect to my gulf coast friends!). You are way too far from the panhandle to make a day trip, and you are way too far from West Palm or the Keys as well. Ditch Tarpon Springs if diving is your priority. Also, any decent Gulf diving in the Tampa area is very far offshore (20 miles or more), and the weather in November can be very unpredictable and trash any trip you have planned.
Really, I would suggest you base yourself in either West Palm Beach or Key Largo. West Palm/Jupiter/Boynton (all the same area) have beautiful reefs between 60-90 feet and great wrecks 60 to 110 feet. Currents tend to be brisk, so the diving there is drift diving, even for the wrecks (drift on, dive, drift off and do safety stop drifting). Very easy. Overall, and this is a generality, West Palm/Jupiter have more "big animals" like turtles, sharks, and goliath grouper. The downside is that the diving is deeper, nitrox is preferred (but not required), and some people are not as comfortable drift diving, although personally it is my favorite. Also, West Palm has a unique super-easy shore dive at Blue Heron Bridge, which is very shallow and offers macro and weird critters like octopi, frogfish, scorpionfish, oddball crustaceans of all types, nudibranchs, the kinds of things I saw even in Indonesia.
The Keys reefs are even better than West Palm, and shallower for longer bottom times. Full of bright color, much more beautiful hard corals, and all kinds of tropical fish. If reefs are your thing, Key Largo is really hard to beat. Notrox not needed, at all, for the best reefs. Also, Key Largo has great wrecks with the Spiegel Grove and Bibb (these are deeper and more advanced if your husband wants to do it with nitrox). Keys diving is not drift diving, you moor at the site and go up and down a line (there are a few exceptions).
Although I do our local Ft. Lauderdale shore dives often, I would not suggest them for a "special" trip, as the reefs are nice but just not as nice as what you will see in the other spots.
The choice is yours, hope this helps.