From year-round diving and a diversity of habitats, Florida has everything you need to learn to dive and advance your skills. With some luck, you could even glimpse a whale shark.

Horizon Divers earned a total of five first-place operator wins in the 2025 Readers Choice Awards, including Best Overall.

Captain Hook’s won a total of 17 combined awards in the 2025 Readers Choice Awards for its three locations in the Florida Keys.

Amoray Dive Resort won 12 2025 Readers Choice Awards, taking first place in seven categories!

This PADI Five Star Career Development Center won five awards in the 2025 Readers Choice Awards, including Quality of Dive Boats, Quality of Facilities and Quality of Staff.

This maze of bridge supports off Pensacola, Florida, creates a towering artificial reef that draws in snapper, grouper and a host of marine life.

On April 5, 2024, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium responded to rescue a distressed smalltooth sawfish after someone called the sawfish hotline; the animal was seen swimming in circles in a Cudjoe Bay canal in the Florida Keys.

Drop in on this artificial reef off Pensacola, Florida, and prepare to be overwhelmed by schooling pelagic fish.

Nearly two dozen wrecks dot the seafloor from Pensacola to Port St. Joe. Here's how to experience them all for yourself.