A Navy minesweeper tender measuring 184 feet in length and with a 33 foot beam, it was used as a training site for divers. Storms ripped the bow and it fell off the wreck's port side. The rest of the boat is still intact and stands upright, rising 20 feet off the bottom.
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Scuba Dive Panama City Beach is an aquatic training center and full-service dive centre that you can use to learn. Their experienced instructors bring over 50 years of diving experience to the students at their heated pool and in a range of open water courses.
Do you know PCB is the Wreck Capital of the South? Our interactive map for scuba diving Panama City Beach contains almost 150 dive locations with over 50 wrecks sunk as artificial reefs and eight feature dive sites you have to try! We’ll give scuba lovers everywhere the low down on why they have to blow bubbles on the Florida Panhandle.
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There is quite an extensive collection of artificial reef material deployed around Panama City Beach. Materials range from bridge pilings to old piers to specially designed reef habitat. Most of these sites wouldn’t attract divers on their own, but when you see a sunken ship surrounded by reef modules, you can bet there will be lots of fish down there.
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.