Florida diving charters

Florida’s waters are not only clear and blue, they also are home to the United States’ only living-coral barrier reef. The 120-mile stretch of the Florida Keys is a particular favorite of scuba divers who are seeking an adventure close to home. Florida diving charters allow guests to explore the large coral formations with schools of blue-striped grunts and moray eels.

Why Florida
The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is in place to ensure that divers from across the globe are able to continue to visit the reef, which possibly offers the biggest and most diverse selection of sea life in the world. The habitat offers shallow reefs for beginners and snorkelers as well as shipwrecks and deeper dives for more experienced divers.

Your yacht charter is equipped with all of the necessary diving equipment and your crew is knowledgeable in where the best dives lie as well as being capable of providing advice and assistance.

Accessibility
The Florida Keys make an excellent diving charter destination simply because of their accessibility. No passport required. No need for a foreign money exchange. No need for a translator. Florida is our tropical paradise and if you want, you don’t even need to catch a flight to get there. The Keys are connected by the Overseas Highway and are dubbed as “The Islands You Can Drive To.”

With the close proximity of the Keys, you can sail between them easily, enjoying the wide variety of diving sites all in one vacation.

Climate
Florida is warm all year round with temperatures which range from 80 to 90 degrees in the summer months and only low 70s to mid-80s in the winter. The Keys also tend to get less rainfall than the mainland and the Gulf Stream draws in warm, clear waters to the area in the same way that it feeds the Bahamas and Caribbean with perfect diving conditions. Guests will enjoy warm weather and consistent breezes that moderate the climate. The water around the Florida Keys is azure and crystalline – absolutely ideal for scuba diving adventures!

The Experience
Diving yacht charters will bring you up close and personal to the myriad of fish and plant life of Florida. In protecting our living coral reef, we have kept alive a national treasure. While diving, you may spy large schools of grunts, delicate angelfish, and branching arms of elkhorn. The fish are quite used to divers, allowing photographers to capture amazing shots as colorful fish swim to them, rather than being frightened away by their mere presence.

Skilled divers will also enjoy the array of shipwrecks in the Keys. As if frozen in time, these historic wrecks offer an insight that is not found in books. Explore the steel-hulled wreck of WWII’s Benwood, which is coated in coral and sponges and home to a variety of species of marine life. Additionally, some ships were sunk to create even more shelter for the sea creatures along the Florida Keys, including the Eagle off Islamorada, the Thunderbolt near Marathon, and the Cayman Salvager off Key West.