Boca Grande Wreck

Bulb shape sink-hole

Approx. 27 miles offshore Marco Island, Florida

Black Hole

Military radio tower

Approx. 29 miles offshore Marco Island


R  Tower

The Santa Lucia was a 47 foot turtle boat; she was sunk in 1997 to become part of and artificial reef site.

Approx. 4 miles west of Gordon Pass

Santa Lucia

Artificial reef. approx. 30-40' barge with culvert pipesaround that lead to another barge.

Always goliath grouper, snapper, AJs, and various other species.

Viz is normally decent. Usually not crowded.

Easy to find 8-10' relief on bottom finder.

Palm Island Ferry



Directly south of Marco Island / Cape Romano

D Tower

This site is known to yield fossilized sharks' teeth. Poor visibility, esp when the water's a little choppy. I have found upwards of 60 teeth in a one-hour dive. (Pics of them on my page.) Teeth ranged from serrated (white sharks) to lanceolate (sand sharks). Many different sizes. This site has been reported to yield teeth in excess of 4" diameter !!! Local dive guides available, but you won't need them. Stay at exactly 19'-21', and you'll find plenty. BEWARE of boats: use a dive buoy.

Public parking at the municipal lot. Hump your gear to the water's edge. Go straight out +/- 100 yards from the lifeguard tower.

Venice Beach

This 453 foot-long German freighter was sunk by Dutch and British warships back in WWII.

Off the coast of the Dry Tortugas

Rhein

Spanish Rocks Reef is unique in that it is one of the very rare saltwater shore dives on the west coast of Florida.  This dive site consists of limestone ledges that vary in height off the bottom from about a foot to about five feet high in certain locations.   Life on the ledges are sponges, tunicates, lots of sea weed, and some corals (hard coral, sea fans, gorgonians).  Various tropical fish live on an around the ledges with turtles and nurse sharks spotted on occasion.  Average depth is from 15 to 20 feet based on tides.  Visibility is highly dependant upon prevailing wind direction and strength.

This dive site located off of Bradenton Beach, FL on Anna Maria Island.  To get to this location find the beach access point on Gulf Drive North and 33rd Street.  33rd Street is only 50 to 100 feet long and serves as the parking lot for the local beach access.   A way to get there from the mainland is to take SR 64 (Manatee Ave.) to Gulf Drive North and then go south about a quarter mile.   If you keep going south along gulf drive for about another 1.5 miles you will get to the other Brandenton Beach shore dive site the Wreck of the Regina (aka Sugar Barge).  The 33rd St. Gulf Drive N. beach access is marked by a small blue green sign to the west.   From the Beach access point find the reef by walking south along the beach six houses and then head out from there due west for a couple hundred yards.  You have to go past the sandy bottom area.  If the visibility is poor it can be easy to miss.  The ledges then heads towards the west away from shore at an angle.

Spanish Rocks Reef

There is a SCUBA destination in Lake Denton, Florida.  This is where my wife and I completed our open water dives for our certification.  The visibility is good and there are a lot of fish to see.  It is a favorite of the locals and is busy on Saturday, but Sunday it's less crowded.  There are lines on the bottom to help navigate.  There are also a couple of sunken dinghies.

Lake Denton, Florida

Lake Denton

Unterseeboot 2513 (U-2513) was a Type XXI U-boat of the Kriegsmarine that was operated by the United States Navy for several years after World War II.

On 2 September 1951, the Chief of Naval Operations ordered that the boat be sunk by gunfire. U-2513 was sunk west of Key West, Florida during rocket tests by the destroyer Robert A. Owens (DD-827) on 7 October 1951.

She now sits on her port side, waiting for you!

Approximately 23 miles northeast of the Dry Tortugas

U-2513 is also known as U 2513.

Boca Grande Wreck

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Boca Grande Wreck