Hey there! I live right next to Satellite Beach. All the local diving - out of Port Canaveral or Sebastian Inlet - is on private boats...BUT you are about to get VERY LUCKY - a new charter boat out of Pt Canaveral JUST STARTED up!!! Art Boyd has a 34' Fitz and if he can get 6 divers on the boat, it GOES!!! :monkeydan It would probably be your best chance for some local diving if you wanna try it. His contact number is (321) 543-5879.
Do you have a DIN to YOKE adapter? It might be helpful to bring it - that or have your regs switched over to yoke for the week - most rental tanks are YOKE. Hatts Diving or Sea Dragons can set ya up for rental tanks.
West Palm and Jupiter will have better clarity and scenery as they are close to the Gulf Stream. There are plenty of charters to be found down there. The diving here is a bit more hard-core and mostly hunting for lobster or fish and not much look-see type of diving - the vis ranges from zero to 3 ft and I've heard about a whopping 10-20 ft lately and a single report of top-bottom. All dive sites out of Canaveral are 45+ and you'll only get reef/ledges in 90+ ft about 26 miles out of the port. Sebastian has some 15 ft beach diving - watch out for the surf surge and sea urchins, some 45 ft reef diving - which is quite pretty when the vis is good, and some 90+ ft ledges for hunting mostly. I did have a GREAT dive in January last year and saw HUGE manta rays and turtles out of Sebastian...but you've gotta have your skills and sh*t together to do the deep stuff on the local deep ledges, as it's not for the beginning or out-of-shape divers.
