New human joins from WPB FL

[ThePokemonDentist]

Howdy gang,

Just moved to West Palm Beach FL and got bit by the scuba duba bug. Just completed my AOW and am looking to dive more and find some dive buddies. Most of my training was at the Blue Heron Bridge. If anyone is local and would like a dive buddy, let me know.

I became interested in diving because I've been a marine aquarist for over 20 years. I became super fascinated with marine and reef aquariums and have had many tanks including a bunch of coral propagation and clownfish breeding tanks all plumbed throughout the garage and the wall to a living room display tank. My parents loved that. lol I joined the local Florida Marine Aquarium Society which offered a discounted open water cert and it was like a new world opened up before my eyes. I've been housing, caring, and loving these ocean creatures in my home and now I can actually go and see them in the wild!?

I recently moved to West Palm Beach for a new job closer to family. My job has been delayed, so I'm looking to do some dive trips. Maybe some to the Keys, Fort Lauderdale, and hopefully a bunch here locally in WPB. Also might plan a travel dive trip.

I've already learned a bunch just lurking on here, excited to learn more as a member.

Thanks

-Matthew

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Welcome!

Be sure and check out the various local threads in the Florida forum. There’s one for Palm Beach, one for BHB & one for Jupiter. Many of the locals post frequent dive reports.

 

[MrChen]

Welcome to the dive community! The bridge is a GREAT place to practice, do macro photography, and meet divers. I've met most of my dive buddies through SB.

Do you own your full gear yet? Do you have tanks (I have a pair of AL80's for sales /shameless plug)? How often do you plan to dive?

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[Green Frog]

You lucky dog, you! The dive ops there in WPB have some great dives right there! My all time fave is the drift dive called “Bath & Tennis” on the reef out from the club of that name. Enjoy (but I don’t have to tell you that!)

 

[fred32176]

Look at Facebook groups. There are south Florida diving groups. We have a central Florida diving group and It's dive o'clock somewhere in central Florida. My LDS in Ormond Beach does a monthly boat dive out of West Palm Beach. A member of It's dive o'clock somewhere in central Florida lives around Fort Pierce and arranges drift dives at Blue Heron Bridge.

If you can't find a dive buddy, you can do a dive boat in the Keys. You could easily catch an afternoon dive out of Key Largo or Marathon.

And welcome to Florida and Florida diving.

 

[wordizbon]

Howdy gang,

Just moved to West Palm Beach FL and got bit by the scuba duba bug. Just completed my AOW and am looking to dive more and find some dive buddies. Most of my training was at the Blue Heron Bridge. If anyone is local and would like a dive buddy, let me know.

I became interested in diving because I've been a marine aquarist for over 20 years. I became super fascinated with marine and reef aquariums and have had many tanks including a bunch of coral propagation and clownfish breeding tanks all plumbed throughout the garage and the wall to a living room display tank. My parents loved that. lol I joined the local Florida Marine Aquarium Society which offered a discounted open water cert and it was like a new world opened up before my eyes. I've been housing, caring, and loving these ocean creatures in my home and now I can actually go and see them in the wild!?

I recently moved to West Palm Beach for a new job closer to family. My job has been delayed, so I'm looking to do some dive trips. Maybe some to the Keys, Fort Lauderdale, and hopefully a bunch here locally in WPB. Also might plan a travel dive trip.

I've already learned a bunch just lurking on here, excited to learn more as a member.

Thanks

-Matthew

Hey Matthew. I'm Deshawn. I live in Jacksonville, originally a New Yorker but I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale and a lot of my family is down there so I'm there often. I'm planning on coming down for Memorial weekend 2024 and was planning on doing a dive somewhere between Jupiter and Key Largo.

I too am AOW (February 2024) and got the bug also. I've dived mostly in the Caribbean and my training in the springs of Florida. I love it but I must say I still get nervous about certain situations. As you can imagine my experience with visibility has always been a good 50 feet plus (although I did a night simulation in a cavern which was awesome) but wrecks in the sea I hope to do one day but will of course be nervous until I do it.

With that said I got some fear factor I'd love to challenge but want to crawl before I walk. I've dived walls a few times and challenge my comfort a bit and eventually get comfortable.

Enough of me rambling but hey man, I'd love to meet and dive when I come down if your interested. Send me a DM and I'll send you my number. Hope to hear from you soon.

Deshawn