Is it worth flying from Europe to dive in Florida ?
Outside of global health emergencies, yes! Florida offers an incredible variety of diving options, all of which are beautiful and worth a trip.
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Is it worth flying from Europe to dive in Florida ?
Is it worth flying from Europe to dive in Florida ?
My dive plans will change if I am unable to travel internationally. I typically do 3 overseas trips a year. Occasionally 4. I also dive locally and am fortunate to have a private shore dive site that I can frequent and I would anticipate doing a lot more diving there this year than I normally would. If Florida opens back up, I would anticipate multiple trips there to dive and a few dedicated trips to So Cal and the Channel Islands. I dived the weekend before last at my local and privately owned shore dive site. I was the only one there on both Saturday and Sunday:
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All of my core gear is stuck behind locked doors waiting for annual service at various dive shops. Otherwise, I would be exploring every local quarry to get some reps in for deeper diving in Lake Superior this upcoming season. My double’s set of LP98’s should have been finished over a week ago, they are delayed. My drysuit is getting a new P-valve and it is also delayed. My regulators...same story. I have a single AL40 and deco reg filled with 100% that has been staring at me for the last 4 weeks. I’m losing my mind. I don’t have a single logged dive in Lake Superior, just a handful of wrecks out of Lake Michigan I squeezed in last year. I anticipate this being the year I figure out my thermal protection for my feet.This is primarily for divers in the US -
If international travel is still very limited, but you can travel within the US, do any of you vacation divers think you might take up more local/US diving? AKA - if you've gone to Coz, would you do Florida if you can't get out of the country? Or would you take a dip in your local quarry or lake?
I guess it comes down to: do you want to dive at all costs or if you can't get to warm water, you just won't dive?
I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open this season to see if there are more Great Lakes virgins because they can't dive elsewhere. It's a lot easier diving if you can just drive there, especially under these conditions.
EDIT: I am not talking about this weekend. I'm talking summer.
Drysuit and heated socksAll of my core gear is stuck behind locked doors waiting for annual service at various dive shops. Otherwise, I would be exploring every local quarry to get some reps in for deeper diving in Lake Superior this upcoming season. My double’s set of LP98’s should have been finished over a week ago, they are delayed. My drysuit is getting a new P-valve and it is also delayed. My regulators...same story. I have a single AL40 and deco reg filled with 100% that has been staring at me for the last 4 weeks. I’m losing my mind. I don’t have a single logged dive in Lake Superior, just a handful of wrecks out of Lake Michigan I squeezed in last year. I anticipate this being the year I figure out my thermal protection for my feet.
No. Not unless you have a friend in Florida who is familiar with the diving and can guide you. Otherwise you'll probably just end up in Key Largo on a cattle boat.Is it worth flying from Europe to dive in Florida ?