Spring Mill Pond has a public beach with changing and bathrooms.A good place for an afterwork dive or if you have limited time on the weekend.There are also hiking and biking trails.One training platform and few thing to find (toilet, paddle boat, etc).Have seen several large trout and is know to…
This was my first time a this site. Visibility was around 5- 10 ft., it was almost low tide. I heard that around high tide is much better vis. I also heard in the early summer you might get to see baby hammerhead sharks, but I didn't see any myself. Because of the changing tides there was a slight…
Old 50 foot fishing trawler addition to the artificial reef (tires in-bedded in concrete), thus other name "Uniroyal Reef". Dive site is do-able from shore, with scooters or fairly long surface swim, many use kayaks to get there. Bottom is about 70 feet, top of boat around 55 feet. Hull is…
Great dive. Info on site is at "Hood Sport 'N Dive".Wall dive. Aquatic life includes sea anemones, sea cucumbers, crab, shrimp, rockfish, sculpin, lingcod, wolf eels, and spiny dogfish shark.
Sunken 30' boat harbours rock bass and a few yellow perchNo Buoy: find the site by triangulating yourself using the largest building in the park (south) and the flagpole near the B&B (east); exactly 45' deep.
This is a great site to practice skills.sandy bottom, shallow and little or no current.Not much to see here. but is a fun easy dive.has a Outside shower and good set-up facilities.
Directly off the beach are large sand flats. Look for pipefish and (at night) cusk-eels.A short underwater swim to the right are low rocky reefs and shelfs.Giant kelp and gorgonians are plentiful.Occasionally you'll spot abalone, giant sea bass, and maybe a cormorant.
This dive site is composed of two massive 500-ton structures. They were submerged in 175 feet of water as an artificial reef. Mostly used for dive training.
Tenneco Towers, were placed at their current location in October, 1985. This is one of the most popular dives on the southeast coast.The oil rigs were originally used in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas exploration. Tenneco Oil Co. transported the one time oil platform by barge around the Florida…
This is a barge sunk to make a reef. It is an easy dive that is always fun. Many types of fish, a sea turtle at times and a shark or two from time to time.
The wreck site of the City of Washington is 325 feet long that sunk in 1891. An old and disintegrated wreck, but you'll find a plethora of marine life in and around this site.
Deep wreck dive. This is a crane that fell off a barge. It is sitting on its back, intact, in 150' of water. Covered with marine life. Very impressive, but small wreck.
This site is a rock quarry, but has been managed for a few years by divers. There is a sunken Chevy, a motorcycle, two boats, and a training platform at 30 ft . Water is cold, even in summer. Visibility is decent, very little fish population.
The Eagle is a 269 feet long freighter which was sunk (December 19th, 1985) intentionally near Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, to become an artificial reef and diving spot.It was split in two by hurricane Georges in september 1998. A distance of about 100 feet now separates the two halves.History:1962…
The Spirit of Miami is a Boeing 727 jet (130' long). It was sunk as an artificial reef September 8, 1993.It is broken in several part, some of them are very damaged.
The Tortuga was sunk in April, 1995 for the movie Fair Game. It is a 165' freighter vessel. This vessel is the best penetration wreck of the area. For advanced diver, of course!