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Love wreck diving, or looking for a unique way to earn your PADI® Wreck Diver Specialty? Florida’s panhandle shipwreck trail offers great wreck diving for all experience levels and the opportunity for a fun road trip. There are more than 40 diveable wrecks along Florida’s gulf coast. The official shipwreck trail includes 12 of the […] Type: Post
Whether you’re looking to earn your Wreck Diver certification, or already a certified PADI® Wreck Diver, the Florida Keys are an enticing destination. With approximately 1000 shipwrecks in and around the keys, the Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail can help divers experience some of the best wreck dives in the area. Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail The […] Type: Post
Artificial reefs aren’t only an attraction for divers and marine life, but they’re also a great way to honor the history of retired vessels and the veterans that served on them. From Key West’s USAFS Vandenberg to the Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail’s USS Oriskany, artificial reefs have been drawing in divers from across the globe […] Type: Post
Southeast Florida marine habitats hold populations of critically endangered species like staghorn and elkhorn coral, smalltooth sawfish and goliath groupers. They are also an important migration route for sperm and humpback whales, a migratory stopover for pelagic shark species such as great white, great hammerhead, tiger, lemon, dusky, and bull sharks; a nesting habitat for […] Type: Post
Divers come to the Florida Keys not just because it’s the only barrier reef in North America and the third-largest coral reef in the world, but it’s also home to Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. “FKNMS holds a tremendous collection of shipwrecks representing much of the maritime heritage of the Atlantic world,” says Matthew Lawrence, […] Type: Post
Up until the early 1990’s, goliath groupers were found on both coasts of Florida, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean, and as far south as Brazil. Unfortunately, in 1994, the fish was determined to be critically endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Excessive fishing was noted as a significant […] 