Rob9876
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Thinking about a weekend road trip and trying to find the closest (coming from East Tennessee) blue water, good visibility ocean diving north of Jupiter, Florida -- is there any? Does Daytona Beach have good diving?
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Thinking about a weekend road trip and trying to find the closest (coming from East Tennessee) blue water, good visibility ocean diving north of Jupiter, Florida -- is there any? Does Daytona Beach have good diving?
What about the gulf side? Does Clearwater area have blue water? Is there decent diving there? Visibility?
We ended up making the longer drive to Jupiter, and it was worth the trip -- very nice blue water, and a good bit of healthy coral and sponges, nice macro, some sharks, etc. Dove with Scuba Works and stayed at the Best Western Intracoastal (less than 10 minutes from the boat), and both were good.
Thanks, really appreciate it!Essentially no. Occasionally in the spring & early summer the gulf can get blue water & really nice viz but it’s rare and far offshore in my experience. Like 20+ miles out.
Gulf diving off of Clearwater on south is primarily green water spearfishing or hunting for fossils off of Venice.