Scuba Dive Panama City Beach's newest dive shop is an additional asset. The shop is also a good place to get certified by PADI. Their knowledge and experience will help you become a more confident diver.
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach is the premier PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) Training Center on the Gulf Coast. If you’re ready for more fun in your life, come to Panama City Beach, join the Scuba Dive Panama City Beach family, and become a certified scuba diver. Panama City Beach has long been known as the most popular place for diving in North Florida. It’s second only to the Florida Keys as the most visited dive destination in the state.
Sport Diver published a short article about us, and the wonderful diving off Panama City Beach.
A 184' long Navy minesweeper tender with a 33' beam sunk in 1987 as a dive salvage training site. Storms broke the bow, and it lay off the port side of the wreck. The rest of the boat remains intact and sits upright, rising 20' off the bottom.
SCUBA diving offers serious excitement and we want you as much as us to have fun. Our entry-level SCUBA classes, available through NAUI/PADI & SSI allow you to get your friends, family, and loved ones into the water quickly, while still meeting your individual training needs.
This place is very good for the first time diver, and has a good selection of diving equipment. Their staff is knowledgeable and helpful. Great diving classes for beginners and those who have dived before.
Panama City Beach has an impressive array of artificial reef material. Materials can be anything from old piers to special-designed reef habitat. Many of these sites don't attract divers but you can bet that there will still be fish down there if there are sunken ships surrounded by coral modules.
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.