Panama City Beach in December.

[Don Rogers]

Doing a family trip for a week to Panama City Beach. I would love to dive everyday of trip but we all know the story with a non-diving family. Need recommendations for dive shop and don't miss dives in the local area.

 

[Plungee]

I was down there the last week of Dec 2019 and we dive Vortex Springs (45-60 min away) as we only have 5mm and the gulf was showing in the low 60s if I recall.
Looking where you’re from, you might have gear to support those temps.
As for dive shops I used in the summer, I’d recommend PanamaCityDiving first followed by PanamaCityDiveCenter

There are lots of wrecks out there. The only deep one I dove was Accokeek (about 100ft)
Besides that I enjoyed Black Bart, Hovercraft, and various Bridge spans in the 70 ft range.

 

[Don Rogers]

I was down there the last week of Dec 2019 and we dive Vortex Springs (45-60 min away) as we only have 5mm and the gulf was showing in the low 60s if I recall.
Looking where you’re from, you might have gear to support those temps.
As for dive shops I used in the summer, I’d recommend PanamaCityDiving first followed by PanamaCityDiveCenter

There are lots of wrecks out there. The only deep one I dove was Accokeek (about 100ft)
Besides that I enjoyed Black Bart, Hovercraft, and various Bridge spans in the 70 ft range.

Thanks. Yes I have cold water gear. 60s is what we have below thermocline at home.