I've been looking for shore dives that are close to the tampa bay area, besides venice beach. I heard that Indian Shores Reef is a possible shore dive. If it is, where do you enter? Are there any other shores dives around this area that are worth doing? thanks!
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There are a couple of nice shore dives in the Anna Maria island area...Spanish rocks, the sugar barge and third pier. For info look in the insiders info section
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/florida-conch-divers/60333-insider-information-local-diving.html ....Although I wouldn't waste my time with third pier. I dove it saturday 5-3-08 and It wasn't much. The ledge is in only 8fsw and not much to see. Limestone and coquina rock with a 18" relief. There were a few fish but no vegitation, corals or sponges. Better left to snorkelers.
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I would also be curious to know where the Indian Shores reef is as well.
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Eandiver, thanks for the map to all those reefs. Looks pretty neat, I'll be down in June/July hoping to get some diving in.
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Eandiver,
I already have something booked with Capt Ty. The kids and I went out with him one day last year and had a blast. Looking forward to doing that again this year.
So, has anyone ever done any shore diving in the Indian Shores area? I know that I stay at a place right on the beach and have snorkled out pretty far and was thinking of renting a tank or two just to check out some of the sites. I want to be able to just do a single tank in the morning and take the wife out to see some underwater. She is certified, but ended up getting a little sea sick on the boat last year. So, she wont be going out on the boat again.
Scooter McFly
I already have something booked with Capt Ty. The kids and I went out with him one day last year and had a blast. Looking forward to doing that again this year.
So, has anyone ever done any shore diving in the Indian Shores area? I know that I stay at a place right on the beach and have snorkled out pretty far and was thinking of renting a tank or two just to check out some of the sites. I want to be able to just do a single tank in the morning and take the wife out to see some underwater. She is certified, but ended up getting a little sea sick on the boat last year. So, she wont be going out on the boat again.
Scooter McFly
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