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Scuba Diving tour Panama City Beach



Scuba Dive Panama City Beach provides divers with varying levels of difficulty. You can have a great time with your family, friends, or on your own. You can feel the excitement of reaching exciting depths in well-selected locations.


Scuba Dive Panama City Beach provides another excellent charter option. They are known for personalizing their trips and can send you with a US Coast Guard-certified captain on the spearfishing or diving trip to your heart's content. You can choose to drop at natural limestone reefs or an artificial, made from fighter jets. Would you like the opportunity to discover an underwater bridge. The decision is up to you.

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Are you looking for something different? You can receive your Open Water Scuba Diving Certificate in as little as 3 days. Your certification is good for life. Because classes are small, you won't face scheduling issues. Refreshers can also be offered if you haven't done diving in a while. Give us a shout and we'll get you on our calendar.

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Scuba Dives Panama City Beach Episode

Scuba Dives Panama City Beach Episode


Panama City Beach was directly hit by Hurricane Michael in October 2018. It is a Category 4 storm. It was the most powerful storm ever to hit the Panhandle, with sustained winds of 154 mph. Hurricane-force winds affected over 650 artificial reefs.

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Inshore diving is defined as less than 8 miles away from St Andrew's Pass. It is generally safe for open water divers. The Red Sea, a tugboat measuring 125 feet, was installed here in 2009. It is also home to the E. E. Simpson Tug, which sank in 1929. Stage 2 (a Navy platform, which was destroyed in 1984), Fontainebleau Boxcars (2 boxcars with associated reef material) and a pair Voodoo Jets anchoring in Seltzer Reef are other interesting locations. Below is a table listing inshore dive spots in Panama City Beach and their associated bottom depths.

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If you have ever been snorkeling and want to take it to the next level, our scuba diving classes are for you! Our Discover Scuba class is perfect for the first timer down on vacation with only so much time to squeeze in everything they want to do. Now is a great time to learn to scuba dive and start a new adventure. If you know you love scuba and want to earn a lifetime certification to dive, we can do that too. The first level of dive training requires 3 days of water training as well as some eLearning.

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A Navy minesweeper tender measuring 184 feet in length and with a 33 foot beam, it was used as a training site for divers. Storms ripped the bow and it fell off the wreck's port side. The rest of the boat is still intact and stands upright, rising 20 feet off the bottom.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.