Panama City Beach is home to a wide variety of artificial reef material. Materials include bridge pilings, old-piers, and special designed reef habitat. Although these locations won't attract divers, you can be sure that they will attract fish when there is a sunken ship with reef modules surrounding it.
SCUBA diving is an incredible experience and we are happy to share it with you. We offer SCUBA courses through NAUI. Our courses can be tailored to suit your individual needs. We offer entry-level classes up to Instructor level. We consider diving to be a serious sport and look forward getting you started on your amazing journey.
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.
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.
Did you know that PCB is the Wreck capital of the South? The interactive map of scuba diving Panama City Beach includes almost 150 dive spots with more than 50 wrecks that were sunk as artificial coral reefs. There are also eight featured dive sites that you should try. Scuba enthusiasts all over the world will learn why they need to dive in the Florida Panhandle.
Check out our videos. You’ll see that no matter what your experience level is, you can have your own adventure of a lifetime with the help of Scuba Dive Panama City Beach in Panama City Beach!
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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.