Scuba Dive Panama City Beach limits dive trips to 14 divers in order to provide comfort and ample space for all. If there's space, all charters are available to the public. We usually offer 2 trips per day during the season.
I love this boat crew, shop and dives! Since many years, we have used their services and had great fun and memorable dives. There is a wide range of gear available to rent or purchase. Everyone is friendly and willing to help.
She is a three-story high vessel with an unbelievable amount of sea life already finding a home there. As of our last trip, you could still see the “Happy Holidays” unknown townsfolk painted onto her deck for all the cars to see passing over the bridge.
Panama City Beach's newest wreck is The El Dorado. Hurricane Michael was the storm that swept the ship ashore on October 18, 2018. The Hathaway Bridge was her constant reminder of the hurricane's destructive wrath throughout winter and spring. In May 2019, she began her career at a top dive site.
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach offers a full service dive center and aquatic training facilities. The instructors are highly experienced and have over 50 years' experience in the diving industry. They can help students learn in their heated pool or on a variety of open-water courses.
Our threshold for offshore diving is more than 8 miles from St Andrew’s Pass. Due to the depths and the open water, these sites require advanced certification, and nitrox cert would be a good idea. Due to the distances involved, these trips don’t run every day. You’ll want to check with the dive shop to see when the next trip is running, or plan a trip with your well-qualified friends, and they might be able to put one on the schedule for you.
We have a wide range of high-quality brand equipment that our customers can either rent or purchase to enhance their diving experience. After each rental, equipment is professionally cleaned to ensure safety.
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.