I love this shop, boat crew and dives! For several years now we have used them and have always had great times and great dives! Lots of gear to rent or buy. Everyone is happy and eager to help!
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach provides a full-service training and dive center. Their instructors have more than 50 combined years of experience worldwide in diving. This knowledge is passed on to students in the heated pool as well as open-water courses.
There are so many great options that Panama City Beach is a top-rated dive destination in Florida. You can dive into the Gulf of Mexico with your fins to see the treasured underwater worlds and marine life that we call home.
We offer many classes to suit divers of all levels.
Our scuba diving classes can be a great way to improve your snorkeling skills. Our Discover Scuba class makes it easy for vacationers with limited time to squeeze in all the activities they desire. Learn to scuba diver and start a new adventure. We can also help you get a lifetime certification to scuba dive if you already love it. The first level requires three days of water training, as well some eLearning.
Our definitions of inshore diving are less than 8miles from St Andrew's Pass. These dives are safe for open water divers. Red Sea is a historic wreck of an E. E. Simpson Tug and a 125ft tugboat that were installed in 2009. Stage 2 is a Navy platform that was destroyed in 1984. FontainebleauBoxcars are two boxcars, with associated reef material. There's also a pair Voodoo-jets anchored in Seltzer. Below is the table with bottom depths for all inshore dive sites on Panama City Beach.
St. Andrews State Park offers the best beach diving along the Emerald Coast. The channel side of the west jetties has a depth of 70 feet. In spots, the rocks also attract and keep a variety of sea creatures, such as octopus and red snapper. The best part about diving is when you catch an incoming tide.
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.