Scuba Diving tour Panama City Beach

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Scuba Dive Panama City Beach offers the Florida Panhandle's most comprehensive Dive Center and Aquatic Training Facility. You can find beautiful Panama City Beach and have direct access for divers to miles of uninterrupted white sandy beaches, shipwrecks or natural reefs. Our staff can assist you in arranging for beautiful aquatic life, swimming with sharks, and exploring hidden treasures beneath.


The threshold for offshore diving lies more than 8 miles away from St Andrew's Pass. These sites require advanced certification. A nitrox certificate would be a good idea. These trips are not available every day due to the distance involved. Check with the dive shop for the latest trip information. Or, plan a trip with well-qualified friends. They might be able put one on the calendar.

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The Panama City Beach has a variety of great dive sites, suitable for both beginners as well as experienced divers. Over 50 artificial reefs can be found within miles of the World's Most Beautiful Beaches. There are also bridge spans, boats, bridges, and hundreds upon hundreds of natural limestone reefs. The depths range from 18 feet to 110ft.

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Beginner Scuba Diving tour

Beginner Scuba Diving tour


Inshore diving is defined as less than 8 miles away from St Andrew's Pass. It is generally safe for open water divers. The Red Sea, a tugboat measuring 125 feet, was installed here in 2009. It is also home to the E. E. Simpson Tug, which sank in 1929. Stage 2 (a Navy platform, which was destroyed in 1984), Fontainebleau Boxcars (2 boxcars with associated reef material) and a pair Voodoo Jets anchoring in Seltzer Reef are other interesting locations. Below is a table listing inshore dive spots in Panama City Beach and their associated bottom depths.

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Panama City Beach boasts a vast array of artificial coral material. Material options include old piers, bridge pilings and custom-designed reef habitat. While these sites are unlikely to attract divers by themselves most of them will attract divers if they are surrounded by reef module-enclosed ships.

Scuba Diving Panama City Beach Deep Sea

Scuba Diving Panama City Beach Deep Sea


Scuba Dive Panama City Beach has the best Dive Center and Aquatic Training Facility in Florida. Divers have direct access miles of unbroken white sand beaches, shipwrecks natural reefs, freshwater springs, and more at Scuba Dive Panama City Beach. Our staff will prepare you to swim with sharks, see beautiful aquatic life, and visit hidden treasures deep below.

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Our threshold for offshore diving is more than 8 miles from St Andrew’s Pass. Due to the depths and the open water, these sites require advanced certification, and nitrox cert would be a good idea. Due to the distances involved, these trips don’t run every day. You’ll want to check with the dive shop to see when the next trip is running, or plan a trip with your well-qualified friends, and they might be able to put one on the schedule for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.