Talk about an unforgettable experience. The service was personalized and extremely comfortable. I can't wait to go back to dive!
Have you ever tried diving? No problem. Panama City Beach, for both you and your feet, is the ideal place to get wet. Our dive shops are perfect for getting you certified and ready to go to the bubbly deep. Scuba Dive Panama City Beach has the expertise to help you begin your new, aquatic lifestyle. This is an all-in-one shop that offers diving training, equipment rental, repairs, and maintenance.
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach (Professional Association of Diving Instructors), is the best PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors Training Center) on the Gulf Coast. Join the Scuba Dive Panama City Beach Family to have more fun and be a certified diver. Panama City Beach is known for being the best place to dive in North Florida. It is second only to Florida Keys in popularity as a dive destination.
Scuba Dive Panama City Beach takes you to famous shipwrecks like Black Bart. Or, you can snorkel along the beach at St. Andrews State Park. The park's amazing rock jetties make it possible to see sea creatures such as redfish, octopus, and more at high tide.
Our definition of inshore diving is less than 8 miles from St Andrew’s Pass and generally safe of open water divers. Notable dives here include the Red Sea, a 125' tug boat installed in 2009, and the historic wreck of the E.E. Simpson Tug that sank in 1929. Other interesting sites include Stage 2 (a Navy platform that was demolished in 1984), the Fontainebleau Boxcars (two boxcars and associated reef material), and a pair of Voodoo jets anchored in Seltzer Reef. Below is our table of inshore dive sites in Panama City Beach with associated bottom depths.
Its extraordinary structure is what makes this site so special. Divers can inspect the wheelhouse at 40 feet down. The deck can be found at 66ft below the surface. There are also accesses to the cargo holdings. The ship's head, or toilet, is found outside the wreck on the sand. There is also a smiling skull. A lot of sea life visits the Warsaw Reef nearby.
She is a three-story high vessel with an unbelievable amount of sea life already finding a home there. As of our last trip, you could still see the “Happy Holidays” unknown townsfolk painted onto her deck for all the cars to see passing over the bridge.
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.