Scuba Dive Panama City Beach provides daily dive charters. A 40-foot dive boat can hold up to 18 divers. All charters are friendly, professional, and safe.
Warsaw Reef is one the top reef dives. It's an artificial hole with concrete rubble & tire bundles. The hole is loved by the fish, who travel to nearby wrecks like Black Bart.
St Andrew's Park Jetties is the place to go for shore diving in Panama City Beach. It takes only a short distance from the parking lot and you'll soon be on the water. The beach-side is quite shallow with little boat traffic. If you are crossing over to the channel-side, bring your dive bag. In the rocks of the jetties, you'll find many tropical fish. High slack tidal is the best time to dive. Visibility and current are more clear. St Andrew's Park's Jetties are also an excellent place for snorkeling in Panama City Beach.
Panama City Beach’s newest wreck, the El Dorado, is now known as Panama City Beach. Hurricane Michael destroyed the ship in October 2018. She was left stranded off the Hathaway Bridge, as a reminder of the storm's devastation in winter and spring. In May 2019, she became a top-ranked diver.
Scuba Diving Magazine recognizes Scuba Dive Panama City Beach among the best dive locations! Scuba Diving Magazine named Scuba Dive Panama City Beach one of the Top 100 Readers Choices 2011.
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.
The Black Bart is an 180-foot vessel that was used as an artificial reef in 1993. Vulcano del Golfo was named in 1977 in honor of Charles' Black Bart' Bartholomew (Navy Supervisor of Salvage Captain), who drowned while diving off Panama City Beach, in 1990. His achievements include leading the Navy's cleanup after the Exxon Valdez oil leak.
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.