The perfect choice for those looking for an unforgettable vacation in Panama City Beach is diving. Below the turquoise waters of Panama City Beach lies another world, a new kind of paradise. Many historic shipwrecks can be found throughout the region.
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach has daily dive charters. We have a 40 foot boat that can hold up 18 divers. Our charters provide safe and friendly diving.
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach is a full-service diving center and aquatic training facility. They have more than 50 years of combined experience in diving, which they pass on to their students through both the heated pool and open-water courses.
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The Black Bart (180') is an artificial reef that was built in 1993. Vulcano del Golfo is a memorial to Charles' Black Bart’ Bartholomew. He was the Navy Supervisor of Salvage captain who drowned in a dive off Panama City Beach in 90. His contributions include the rescue of the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as leading the Navy’s cleanup of Exxon Valdez, an oil rig supply vessel.
All over the region are historic wrecks. Skin Diver Magazine has named Panama City Beach the wreck diving capital of the South because of these and other artificial corals.
Panama City Beach was directly impacted by Hurricane Michael, which was a category four storm in October 2018. It made landfall in the Panhandle with maximum sustained winds of 154mph. Hurricane-force winds were experienced by more than 650 artificial reefs.
It seems that during this summer a writer from Sport Diver took an excursion on one of our boats and was so impressed, he/she wrote a great little article about us and the great diving off Panama City Beach.
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.