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Panama City Beach is one of the best drive and dive weekends you can take from the South. You can dive Sunday morning, drive home in time for bed, and not have to worry about your no-fly timeline.
There are many excellent dive spots on Panama City Beach for both novice and advanced divers. There are more than 50 artificial reefs within a few miles of the World's Most Beautiful Beaches. These include bridge spans, ships, and natural limestone reefs that range in depth from 18 to 110 feet.
Our threshold for off-shore diving is 8 miles from St Andrew's Pass. These locations require advanced certification. Nitrox certification would be a good idea. Because of the distance involved, these trips do not run every day. To find out when the next trip will be running, you can check with the dive shop. You might also want to plan a trip together with qualified friends.
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.
Panama City Beach is a haven for divers and non-divers alike. You’ll never want things to do on your surface interval or feel guilty for taking your family to PCB while you went diving. You can even work a diving trip into a romantic weekend in Panama City Beach or a larger romantic Florida getaway, especially if your partner is certified too.
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.