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Exploring Key Largo’s Best Dive Sites with Horizon Divers

Drift in the cobalt blue waters of Key Largo and experience Molasses Reef, Eagle Ray Alley and more with Horizon Divers.

Buddy's Reef

Buddy Dive’s on-site reef offers a visual feast for curious divers

Plaza Beach Resort Bonaire’s House Reef: 18th Palm

The Bonaire Dive Site’s Sloping Sands Present a Dive like No Other

Dive the Hilma Hooker

The Hilma Hooker is a gem of a deep wreck dive located off Bonaire’s southwest coast

Explore Key Largo with Ocean Divers

Ocean Divers in Key Largo, Florida, is a PADI scuba diving operation offering scuba certifications, wreck diving, reef diving and boat charters for divers and snorkelers.

Explore the phenomenal underwater world of Kona

Jack's Diving Locker was rated the Best Dive Operators and Best Family Diving Experiences from Scuba Diving 2018 Readers Choice Gold List awards.

A Diver’s Guide to the Lower Keys

Once you’ve ticked off the many impressive sites in Key Largo, Islamorada and Marathon, you’ll arrive in yet another natural Florida Keys wonderland — the Lower Keys. A stunning swath of the archipelago that curves gently westward on its way to the end of the road in Key West, the Lower Keys is a destination all its own. And there’s tons of fun to discover here, both below the water’s surface and above.

A Diver’s Guide to Key West

All the elements of an idyllic dive vacation in the Florida Keys come together where the Overseas Highway comes to a dramatic finish in Key West. Here, you’re at the southernmost point of the United States, and worlds away from the mainland when it comes to attitude and stress level — after all, Key West is closer to Cuba than Miami. The United States is at its most Caribbean here, and not just in the pastel-hued bungalows and crystal-clear waters, but in Key West’s casual approach to life as a whole too. The Florida Keys’ dining scene is at its most sophisticated and diverse here. And if you think the diving opportunities dwindle out at the end of the road, you’d be dead wrong. One of the most exciting wrecks of the Florida Keys Wreck Trek awaits divers who descend on the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. And day-trippers can head offshore from Key West to one of the most fascinating national parks in the United States within the islands of the Dry Tortugas. Read on for more ways to maximize your time diving and simply enjoying all the pleasures of Key West.

THE LURE OF SUNKEN TREASURES

Beneath the aquamarine waters surrounding the Bahamas chain lies a silent fleet of shipwrecks. The vast majority of them are buried beneath the sand and reef, strewn across the sandy seabed like lost treasure. They have made the Bahamas famous, rightfully earning the sobriquet, “Wreck Capital of the Caribbean”.

There are thousands of them and most will be left undisturbed forever. But about 50 or so are accessible to divers. Most of these are scattered around the southwest coast of New Providence Island, more than 40 of them sunk over the past four decades by Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas just a short boat ride from the dock. With names like Port Nelson, Sea Trader, Vulcan Bomber, Steel Forest or Twin Sisters, they beckon to underwater explorers searching for adventure, mystery and a taste of a rich maritime history.

For pure visual impact, few underwater experiences surpass the excitement and beauty of descending into the depths and watching a ghost ship with its distinctive lines and bulk slowly but steadily materialize out of the blue, literally.