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Hypnotic. Very nice.

Nice video. It's surprising that among all the exotic fish and coral so far away I see a barracuda and a porcupine that look identical to those in Atlantic/Caribbean waters. And what are the water temps there? In the 90s F.? Also surprising.

Almost forgot to address the bleaching event of last summer, and the condition of Pickles- Re: bleaching- there definitely was quite a bit of bleaching apparent, but it seems the casualties were mostly the coral farms of the restoration projects. The bleached reefs that I dove in summer have...

Reports of the demise of the Florida Keys for diving are a bit premature. While SCTLD has decimated brain corals and many star corals throughout the Caribbean basin that's not a problem unique to the Keys. Luckily stag horn and elk horn are unaffected by the disease and those fast growing...

Very cool dive site. Thanks.

Nice video. Really incredible that those divers do this all the time.

This video was taken last year on Molasses reef. One nurse shark was caught on camera trying to hide (?) with his head in a hole. I saw him thrashing a bit at first and thought he was in trouble but he calmed down. I think he simply misjudged the size of his hiding spot.

I took this video in mid March, about 10 days ago. Its a really nice dive spot I found recently, with swim throughs and lots of healthy coral.

Last week the surface temp was just shy of 78 in Key Largo, a couple degrees cooler below. I was comfy in a 3 mil shorty. I don't put the shorty away until the water temp is at least 82.

I got certified with SW. I was aware that the dives at BHB wouldn't give me any experience with greater depths, but it was inexpensive and SW also included a coupon for a 2 tank boat dive, so I knew I'd get that deeper drift dive experience too, supervised by a dive master in the water. As it...

Really nice work there. Loved the blennys, shrimps, crabs.

Get a copy of the the Florida Atlas and Gazetteer, the big red soft cover map book. there's a list of all the springs in Florida in the front with short descriptions of each. And maps.

I rented a boat for the first time in the keys when I was probably just 18. I'd been diving in the keys with the parents and their friends many times but had literally never operated a powerboat before. Consider that this was before there was GPS and the rental boat had no compass, but they did...

Carysfort is indeed sad to see. I caught my first lobster at Carysfort in 1971, and recently dove there again for the first time since the 70s. Acres of shallow elk horn died off from algae overgrowth after the Caribbean-wide diadema plague in the early 80's and the stumps of dead elk horn are...

Check Scuba Works. Great dive operation in Jupiter.

Green. Not an expert opinion but while it has a vertical beak, so not a hawksbill, it's snout tapers towards the beak (not square like other pic) and it has a neck.

Loggerhead. That turtle has no neck.

That's it, all the coral is dead in the keys so definitely don't come here ;D , but seriously, Looe Key is a standout for seeing sharks and Goliaths and lots of healthy coral, but if you want to see other areas there are many good snorkeling reefs in Key Largo area, in fact that's where the...

Rather than buying the castable striker spend slightly more on something like this...

Was surprised, I didn't know there was a charter base in the exumas. I've only searched sail and I don't think there was ever availability or I only searched monohulls.