We have been anticipating the arrival of Miami Beach’s ReefLine project for some time now. News first broke around the time of the pandemic and the project’s future seemed in jeopardy. The 7-mile-long underwater sculpture park with access for scuba divers and snorkelers is a project that is certainly interesting for us and for many in the […]
Tag: South Florida Diving
We were happy to be in town and to be able to participate in the annual Deerfield Beach Pier clean-up again this year. Held on a Saturday in June, this annual even is an opportunity to both do an interesting dive under the pier (normally you cannot scuba dive within 300ft of a pier in […]
We joined DXDivers for their first Pompano Beach pier cleanup. We’ve participated in other such cleanups in the past, but it was the first time at the Pompano fishing pier. Lots of community groups and local vendors set up booths along the road as 260 divers took to the water with support staff on the […]
After a couple of years, the Deerfield Beach Pier cleanup dive sponsored by DXDivers was back. We were happy to be here to participate and this year DRYFOB was even part of the draw prizes. Very cool. Once a year the pier is closed to fishing and divers have it to themselves. This is a […]
Living in Florida, we are lucky to have a lot of shore diving options available to us and we’ve been doing quite a lot of that. Some of our favorite spots are the Blue Heron Bridge and Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. It had been a while that we’d been on a dive boat, and we finally had a […]
Located just off Hollywood Beach between Johnson and Michigan Streets (near the Margaritaville Hotel), you’ll find the Yellow Brick Road dive site. It’s a great shore dive for all levels of divers and with lots of macro photo ops. The site is a former outfall pipe structure used for sewage and wastewater. The 800 foot-long […]
Lauderdale-By-The-Sea is a great place to go shore diving in South Florida. All along the coast of this seaside town the coral reef is really close to shore and is easy to reach. It’s also full of life and makes for interesting and fun dives.
The Blue Heron Bridge is a popular shore dive in Florida, especially during weekends. It’s an awesome muck dive site, perfect for underwater photography. Blennies, gobies, seahorses, batfish, pipefish, frogfish, and many other tiny creatures call the Blue Heron Bridge home. Large schools of reef fish are a common sight and if you’re lucky you […]
Reef Diving in South Florida
With the world’s third largest coral reef system less than a mile from the coast of South Florida, there are lots of excellent dive sites to choose from. Some are even accessible from shore while others are only a short boat ride away. South Florida is blessed with spectacular reefs thriving with sea life and […]
Participating in pier cleanups are great opportunities to do something positive for the environment and for our local marine life. South Florida piers are usually reserved for fishing and off limits to scuba divers. This is also an opportunity to dive a forbidden place while giving back to the ocean and its inhabitants. Volunteer divers […]