A 184' long Navy minesweeper tender with a 33' beam sunk in 1987 as a dive salvage training site. Storms broke the bow, and it lay off the port side of the wreck. The rest of the boat remains intact and sits upright, rising 20' off the bottom.
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach offers daily diving charters. Our 40-foot boat can carry up to 18 divers. Our charters offer safe, friendly and professional diving.
Sport Diver published a short article about us, and the wonderful diving off Panama City Beach.
Did you know that PCB is the Wreck capital of the South? The interactive map of scuba diving Panama City Beach includes almost 150 dive spots with more than 50 wrecks that were sunk as artificial coral reefs. There are also eight featured dive sites that you should try. Scuba enthusiasts all over the world will learn why they need to dive in the Florida Panhandle.
Panama City Beach boasts a vast array of artificial coral material. Material options include old piers, bridge pilings and custom-designed reef habitat. While these sites are unlikely to attract divers by themselves most of them will attract divers if they are surrounded by reef module-enclosed ships.
Do you want to try something new? In just 3 days, you can get your Open Water Scuba Diving Certificate. Your certification is valid for life. You won't have to worry about scheduling because classes are small. If you have been certified but have not dived in a while, we offer refreshers. We will put you on the schedule if you give us a call.
Inshore diving can be defined as being less than 8 mi from St Andrew's Pass. This is more accessible to open-water divers. Red Sea, an 125-foot tug boat, was built in 2009 and is a notable dive. Also, the wreckage of the E. E. Simpson Tug which sank back in 1929 are also noteworthy. Stage 2 (a Navy platform which was demolished and rebuilt in 1984), Fontainebleau's Boxcars (two boxescars and related reef material) and two Voodoo planes that are anchored in Seltzer Reservoir make for interesting dives. Below is a list of all inshore dive locations in Panama City Beach, with their bottom depths.
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.