Your confidence and knowledge will increase as a diver. Dive Locker offers a full service dive center and aquatic training facilities. They have more than 50 years experience as instructors, and they can share that knowledge with students in their heated pool or on a variety of open-water courses.
Are you looking to descend on our limestone reefs or an artificial one built from a fighter plane? Do you want to see an underwater bridge? You have the option to choose.
Technical divers go beyond recreational diving. These divers can dive deeper, farther, higher, and more overhead, using different gas mixtures to meet nrcosis or decompression requirements. You are a skilled diver who wants to see the deepest part of the pool. This is how you can get there. We offer Intro to Tech, Advanced Nitrox, Deco Procedures and Trimix. Advanced Trimix is also available.
Dive Locker is a full-service diving center and aquatic training facility. The instructors are experts with over 50 years of experience in diving, which they share with students in the heated pool or open-water courses. Dive Locker will take you to the famous Black Bart shipwrecks or allow you to snorkel at St. Andrews State Park.
Panama City Beach is a paradise for both divers and non-divers. There are plenty of things to do in the area, and you won't feel guilty about taking your family to PCB when you go diving.
We do strive for accuracy. St Andrew's Park Jetties is the place to go for shore diving in Panama City Beach. The beach is a short walk away from the parking area. Soon you will be in the water. The beach is very shallow and there is little boat traffic. If you are crossing to the channel side, be sure to bring your diving flag. Many tropical fish live in the rocks at the jetties.
You can also go snorkeling at St. Andrews State Park. High tide allows you to see the amazing rocky jetties of the park, which allow you to get up close and personal with ocean creatures such as redfish or octopus. Dive Locker provides another excellent charter option. They are known for personalizing their trips and can send you with a US Coast Guard-certified captain on the spearfishing or diving trip to your heart's content. You can choose to drop at natural limestone reefs or an artificial, made from fighter jets.
An Average Diver, at an Average Depth, With an Average Tank
Based on personal experience, an average open-water certified diver using a standard aluminum 80-cubic-foot tank on a 40-foot dive will be able to stay down for about 45 to 60 minutes before surfacing with a safe reserve of air still in the tank.
So just to reiterate: don't grab animals, don't hold them for photo ops, don't go for rides on dolphins or turtles, and don't force puffer fish to inflate (it can be fatal to them).