Florida Diving 11/14

[ttriton]

Ok, I'm in Orlando and have my dive gear! Is there anywhere I can dive Thursday 11/14, with this forecasted weather? I have a rental car and don't mind driving, but I'm solo; so need charter or dive buddy. Any sugestions? I have scheduled to go out of Jupiter, but I don't think the weather is going to cooperate; haven't heard anything official from dive op yet.


Thanks

 

[Odo]

Thursday does not look good in Jupiter... Cold front blowing trough... Sorry to say. It was pretty nice today. I had to work
.THURSDAY...EAST NORTHEAST WINDS 20 TO 25 KNOTS. SEAS 9 TO
11 FEET WITH OCCASIONAL SEAS UP TO 14 FEET SUBSIDING TO 7 TO
9 FEET WITH OCCASIONAL SEAS UP TO 11 FEET IN THE AFTERNOON.
DOMINANT PERIOD 10 SECONDS. NORTH NORTHEAST SWELL 3 TO 5 FEET.
INTRACOASTAL WATERS ROUGH IN EXPOSED AREAS. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS.

 

[ttriton]

Yea, I should of ditched my business today and went diving. Do you have any alternative dive options for Thursday? Been looking at the springs, possibly Ginnie. Any recommendations?

Thanks

 

[sportxlh]

Devil's Den is kinda fun. Blue Grotta is worth diving once. Here's some links:

Scuba Shore Diving Site Page for: Devil's Den of Florida, USA East
Scuba Shore Diving Site Page for: Blue Grotto of Florida, USA East
Devils Den Springs Scuba Diving Resort
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Check out the Blue Heron Bridge thread to see if vis has dropped due to the ocean marine conditions. there's also the Disney Dive Quest in the Epcot Center's big tank: its worth diving once as well.

 

[mjsylver]

Maybe the Mohawk on the west coast. Wx doesn't look too terrible on the west side thursday.

 

[totalangel]

Mohawk would be a great dive but I'm not seeing any mid-week Mohawk trips on the calendars of my normal operators. It's a 2 - 2 1/2 hour trip from the dock - so they normally only run those on the weekends.
Tanks-A-Lot has a morning trip on Thursday going out of Clearwater. They are always a great boat to dive with.
If worse comes to worse - call Epcot and see if they have any openings to dive the aquarium. Sounds cheesy but it's actually a lot of fun!

 

[Omisson]

I'm in cave country now - doing ginnie this afternoon- viz is great!

 

[ttriton]

Anyone be there tomorrow, needing or wanting dive buddy? Not cave cert. but I'm aow.

 

[MrChen]

Head down to Blue Heron Bridge in West Palm Beach. It's about 10 minutes south of Jupiter. Just have to hit it at high tide. Great place for macro photography. Lots of dive shops around. Easy to find buddies, hit up the BHB Trolls thread. It's within the intracoastal right at the inlet, so no issues with surf, unpredictable currents, etc.

 

[djtimmy77]

Head down to Blue Heron Bridge in West Palm Beach. It's about 10 minutes south of Jupiter. Just have to hit it at high tide. Great place for macro photography. Lots of dive shops around. Easy to find buddies, hit up the BHB Trolls thread. It's within the intracoastal right at the inlet, so no issues with surf, unpredictable currents, etc.

with the cold front coming through and the building surf, the water coming into the BHB is going to have a lot of particulate in it, and likely very low vis tomorrow.