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You've never tried scuba diving before. You don't have to worry. Panama City Beach is the ideal spot to get your feet and everyone else wet. You can get certified in our dive shops and be on your way to the bubbly depths. Scuba Dive Panama City Beach can help you get started on your new aquatic lifestyle. The shop is a one-stop-shop and offers dive training, equipment rentals, and repairs.
PCB is the wreck capital of the south! Our interactive map to scuba dive Panama City Beach has almost 150 locations, with over 50 wrecks submerged as artificial reefs. Eight feature dive sites are included. Here's the scoop for scuba fans all across the Florida Panhandle.
St. Andrews State Park's jetties offer some of the best beach diving on the Emerald Coast. The channel side of St. Andrews State Park's west jetty is 70 feet deep in some spots. The rocks are home to a variety sea life including red snapper, redfish and grouper. It doesn't get better if you dive just in time to catch the incoming tide.
Sport Diver's summer trip was so successful that a journalist wrote an article about us and the amazing diving off Panama City Beach.
The Black Bart is a 180' vessel sunk in 1993 as an artificial reef. Christened Vulcano del Golfo in 1977, the site commemorates Charles’ Black Bart’ Bartholomew, Navy Supervisor of Salvage Captain, who died while diving off Panama City Beach in 1990. His exploits include heading up the recovery of the Space Shuttle Challenger and leading the Navy’s cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which is poetic since the Black Bart is an oil rig supply ship.
You want to do something completely different? Your Open Water Scuba Diving certification will be issued in just three days. Your certification will be valid for your entire life. There are no classes that are too small to cause scheduling problems. Refreshers are also available for those who haven't dived in a while. Call us to get on our schedule.
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.