Florida Diving

[lars2923]

Planning a dive? Have any suggestions on a location? Post your thoughts here.

[Sarah]

I hear the Crystal Springs Florida is a great place to go diving with the friendly, people loving manatees.

[TravelnSJ]

I am going to Ft Lauderdale in July. I will be diving West Palm Beach and Boynton Beach....they say very good diving!....also heard that Crystal springs is great....but cool waters.

[lars2923]

Ft. L. is nice diving. I do not know if you have been there to dive before.
The depth begins to decent maybe, maybe starting at 2 miles off shore.
So long boat rides are not neccessary. Diving is easy. Just head West and you should eventually hit shore. So shallow end on your right when diving south, on your left when heading North. You get the idea.
A number of wrecks may be found along the site. Fairly safe diving. One does
not need a lot of wreck training to navigate in and around them.
Do you know who you would be using for the charter. I have a recommendation. Good boats..

Lars
"Let's go Diving"

PS: All the springs are good. Well, except for a few I could recommend you not visit. Most springs
are of a constrant temp. I know one thats fed with a hot thermal. Now that one is nice to dive
in, especially when the air temp is lower than the H2O..

[lars2923]

I took the day off from work and what do I go and do?
Dive..
Naturally...

A friend of mine invited me last week. Another friend joined us.
Today we visited Devil Den in Williston, Fl. It was a rather splendid
day, blue sky, sun shinning and very little people diving. We had the
visibility we desired to get some good video.
I'll post some shots in the gallery.
One may circumnavigate the site in less than 30 minutes.
Hitting the deeper area lead to holes you may swim through,
coming up into the sun light that protruded the hole in the ceiling.
Spectacular site.
The sun's shimmer light reflection on the bottom is a bit disorienting.
Closing my eyes for a few second helped me get my bearings. I was out
of sorts today but I enjoyed the day, I was diving.

Devils Den, I give it four stars out of five. A nice place to visit at least
once. Also an enjoyment for friends and new divers to experience. The grounds
are well maintained, picnic tables, grills, (Take food and drink along. Nothing on site),
pool and nice scenery. Rinse area for your gear after your dives, restrooms, showers, air fills are available as well.

For those who may be planning a trip to Devils Den, just down the road is
Blue Grotto. Maybe 1 mile at the most. When leaving Devils Den and hitting the main road,
make a right and you'll see the sign for Blue Grotto just down the road.
You could make a day out of diving both sites. 2 dive in the AM at one location, head over to
the next site and dive a couple in the afternoon.

Both sites are very well maintained, clean. provide picnic tables, restrooms, rinse areas
air fills and plenty of room for the non diver to wonder around or lay in the grass. Perfect for napping..
Fees at the time of this writing: Devils Den $35, Blue Grott0 $40.

Next weekend A friend and I are planning on diving Paradise Springs. Another favorite of mine.
I'll post more on that dive later.

[dalehall]

Nice write up Lars. Devil's Den is one of the Springs I haven't been to yet.. We're planning to make a trip down in the next couple of months.. I'll have to add DD as a possibility on our as yet to be determined itinerary.
Thanks..