SaltyKSue
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Is there a dive operation that anyone can recommend in the Orlando area. I'll be there in Sept and would like to do some diving while there.
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There's a boat I go on sometimes (when I'm up for making the drive) out of West Palm called "The Wetter The Better". These guys are a fantastic group and well worth checking out, but it's a bit of a drive from Orlando (3 hours approx.). It's somewhere around $65.00 to get on and they do the reefs and wrecks out along West Palm. You can get on with them through Scuba Quest
http://www.scubaquestusa.com/
I haven't been out with them yet, but the guys at the dive shop I frequent (again, ScubaQuest) have said good things about SeaDog Divers out of New Smyrna Beach - about an hour and a half northeast of Orlando. I believe the cost is around the same.
www.seadogdiver.com
There's a spring in Orange City (1/2 hour northeast of Orlando) called Blue Springs.
http://www.abfla.com/parks/BlueSpring/bluespring.html
It's basically a big crack in the earth that feeds the St. Johns River. Not an exciting dive if you're not cave certified. It drops down to sixty feed with multiple rock ledges on either side all the way down. At 60' it slopes down at a 45 degree angle down to 120'. From 60' down is for cave divers only. Good vis and a $10.00 or $12.00 fee per diver.
Then there's Blue Grotto and Devil's Den about two hours north of Orlando. I haven't dived the Den but did Blue Grotto last week. Again, it's a natural sinkhole. No current, good vis, not much to see. It's a $30.00 admission per diver and once was enough for me.
http://www.divebluegrotto.com/indexflash.html
http://www.devilsden.com/
Of course, you can check out the link that pdoege posted and find one that interests you. Let us know where you decided and what your thoughts are afterwords. Have fun and remember...a good dive is one that you return from!
http://www.scubaquestusa.com/
I haven't been out with them yet, but the guys at the dive shop I frequent (again, ScubaQuest) have said good things about SeaDog Divers out of New Smyrna Beach - about an hour and a half northeast of Orlando. I believe the cost is around the same.
www.seadogdiver.com
There's a spring in Orange City (1/2 hour northeast of Orlando) called Blue Springs.
http://www.abfla.com/parks/BlueSpring/bluespring.html
It's basically a big crack in the earth that feeds the St. Johns River. Not an exciting dive if you're not cave certified. It drops down to sixty feed with multiple rock ledges on either side all the way down. At 60' it slopes down at a 45 degree angle down to 120'. From 60' down is for cave divers only. Good vis and a $10.00 or $12.00 fee per diver.
Then there's Blue Grotto and Devil's Den about two hours north of Orlando. I haven't dived the Den but did Blue Grotto last week. Again, it's a natural sinkhole. No current, good vis, not much to see. It's a $30.00 admission per diver and once was enough for me.
http://www.divebluegrotto.com/indexflash.html
http://www.devilsden.com/
Of course, you can check out the link that pdoege posted and find one that interests you. Let us know where you decided and what your thoughts are afterwords. Have fun and remember...a good dive is one that you return from!
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