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More Best Places to Dive & Snorkel in Florida
Grab a map of Florida and you'll see why there are as many diving opportunities as there are gators in the
glades. Looking much like a long finger pointing into the blue oceanic waters, many of the best dive sites
are within a few short hours drive from just about anywhere in the state including your Florida monthly
vacation rental.
You could dive from spots at the top of the Panhandle to the bottom of the Florida Keys - and every place
in between. Here's a roundup of the best places to enjoy Florida's underwater world.
Florida monthly vacation rental and Best Place to See the
Living Reef: Looe Key
Just off of Big Pine Key are the fabulous reefs of Looe Key. This 5.5-square-mile National Marine Sanctuary
is a protected underwater ecosystem. It is an undersea oasis reminiscent of big reef structures found
throughout the Bahamas; and was named after the HMS Looe, a British Man O' War that ran aground in 1744.
The wreck no longer exists, but the pristine reefs that lie within the sanctuary are a living coral system
that features a high profile spur-and-groove coral configuration. The deeper reefs are an impressive
collection of almost every type of sponge and soft coral found in the Florida Keys.
Florida monthly vacation rental and Best Place to Explore Big Wrecks: Key Largo
The colorful reefs and mind-numbing profusion of fish in Pennekamp Park is reason enough to pack up the
family wagon and head south. But if you are looking for some really big wrecks, the 510-foot Spiegel Grove
may be the main attraction. After nearly eight years of planning and an edge-of-your-seat sinking that had
the Grove floating upside down on national television, the wreck is now attracting the marine life
attention it deserves. Two other great wrecks not to be missed are the former Coast Guard cutters Bibb
and Duane. Toothy fish like barracuda and oceanic jacks have made these sites their home base.
Florida monthly vacation rental and Best Places to Explore Historic Wrecks:
Florida monthly
vacation rental in Pensacola, Destin and Panama City
Florida monthly vacation rental in Pensacola:
This military town has not only shaped
the city's commerce, but its dive sites as well. Wrecks include the 500-foot World War I battleship, USS
Massachusetts, the Russian freighter San Pablo, a Navy barge and an A-7 Corsair that fell off the deck of
the carrier USS Lexington. You'll find Vietnam-era tanks and various other naval ships. USS Oriskany, a
retired aircraft carrier, is scheduled to become Pensacola's newest artificial reef.
Florida monthly vacation rental in Destin:
Military buffs will find the waters off
this beach town littered with sunken barges, tugs, liberty ships, landing craft, airplanes, army tanks and
bridge rubble populated with grouper, flounder and cobia.
Florida monthly vacation rental in Panama City:
The marine institute has sent ships,
Navy scrap metal, pontoons, towers, bridge spans, tanks, hovercraft and even a Quonset hut to the bottom of
the Gulf since the 1970's. Perhaps the most famous wreck is the Empire Mica, a 465-foot British tanker that
was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942. It now rests in 110 feet of water 20 miles off Cape San Blas.
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