Our threshold for off-shore diving is 8 miles from St Andrew's Pass. These locations require advanced certification. Nitrox certification would be a good idea. Because of the distance involved, these trips do not run every day. To find out when the next trip will be running, you can check with the dive shop. You might also want to plan a trip together with qualified friends.
The jetties at St. Andrews State Park offer the best beach dives available along the Emerald Coast. Depth on the channel side of the west jetty hits 70 feet in spots, and the rocks attract and hold a variety of sea life, including octopus, red snapper, redfish, grouper, and other tropical fish. If you time your dive to catch an incoming tide, it doesn’t get any better.
The Black Bart (180') is an artificial reef that was built in 1993. Vulcano del Golfo is a memorial to Charles' Black Bart’ Bartholomew. He was the Navy Supervisor of Salvage captain who drowned in a dive off Panama City Beach in 90. His contributions include the rescue of the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as leading the Navy’s cleanup of Exxon Valdez, an oil rig supply vessel.
It seems that during this summer a writer from Sport Diver took an excursion on one of our boats and was so impressed, he/she wrote a great little article about us and the great diving off Panama City Beach.
Divers are the ideal choice if you're looking for a memorable and unique vacation experience in Panama City Beach. A second world awaits below the surface of our turquoise waters. It is a different kind of of paradise. There are many historic shipwrecks throughout the region, including sea turtles, goliath grouper and bottlenose dolphins that frolic on the beaches.
Panama City Beach is a seriously good vacation destination and dive destination wrapped into one. The fact that you can drive here from so many places makes it that much better. Divers of all experience levels will find plenty of reasons to keep coming back again and again, and their families will love them for it.
It's perfect! This is the best place to be! Scuba Dive Panama City Beach provided a refresher course and we were hooked again on diving. The team was helpful, friendly, and knowledgeable. They clearly love diving. Their gear is all brand new and well maintained. They are masters at Customer Service!
Never hold your breath
As every good entry-level dive student knows, this is the most important rule of scuba. And for good reason — breath holding underwater can result in serious injury and even death. In accordance with Boyle's law, the air in a diver's lungs expands during ascent and contracts during descent.
As you become a qualified scuba diver, you learn the basics of an essential scuba system. A cylinder, weights, an exposure suit, regulators, BCD gauge and timing device, mask and fins are the bare essentials.