Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!bob From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Newsgroups: net.rec.scuba Subject: Re: Skin Diving in S. Florida? Message-ID: <260@pedsgd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 10:05:23 EDT Article-I.D.: pedsgd.260 Posted: Wed Sep 4 10:05:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 08:24:03 EDT References: <548@bonnie.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Organization: Perkin-Elmer, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 36 Summary: Organization : Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls NJ Keywords: In article <548@bonnie.UUCP> joel@bonnie.UUCP (Joel West) writes: >I will be visting the Ft. Lauderdale and Melbourne areas in the near >future and was wondering if there were any decent car-accessible >skin diving spots along the Atlantic. > >I'd prefer something within an hour of Ft. Lauderdale, or in the >Melbourne/Cocoa Beach area. I understand the Keys would be the best, >but it looks like > 2 hour drive just to get to the northernmost >edge. > The Keys are indeed the best bet, and it is not much more than a 2 hour drive, if that. Depends on traffic. There is absolutely no beach diving anywhere in the Keys though, so you got to get on a cattle boat. Pennekamp park on and around Key Largo is probably the best dive spot in the US period. There is a place in Pompano Beach where you can beach dive just south of the Pompano pier; I think it is around 8th street where you can enter the water. You have to swim out about 150 yards and there is a low reef in about 15-20 ft of water. Lots of bottom time. Dont bother if it is not dead calm however, visiblity is poor and it can be very difficult to find. There are also numerous wrecks in about 90ft of water that dive operators can take you to. The Mizpah off Palm Beach is the best known. I understand that they have also recently sunk the ship that washed up on shore last year. Hope this helps. Wish it were me. Bob Weiler.