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Scuba Forum / General / March 2004Key Largo diving recomendations
I've been diving in Key Largo several times, and have these complaints: 1) location: all the operations seem to go to the same place, were we look at dead coral in very shallow water. Is there any operation that will take us to somethign different, better, deeper? (myself and my buddy are advanced certified) 2) price: it seems to be one of the most expensive places i have dove - is there a lower-cost operator that anyone would recomend? we have all our own gear. Planning this trip for a few weeks from now, so any recomendations will be greatly appreciated! thanks - dan > I've been diving in Key Largo several times, and have these complaints: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > thanks - dan Key Largo is a tourist-driven location. There are some fine dive sites which smaller local operators will visit on request, but the major operators stick with the shallow, over-dived sites for obvious reasons. Ya have to seek out those few operations that are geared to more experienced divers and will take you to out-of-the-way sites, and it is best to do that before ya get down there. Or go to Boynton. > I've been diving in Key Largo several times, and have these complaints: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > thanks - dan I was there a couple of weeks ago and dove with "Ocean Divers" on the dive boat "Santana". I was impressed with their operation and the boat. While we dove two relatively shallow reefs, that was what they had on the charter for that day. They did have a trip planned to the Speigel Grove the next day, but I was planning on returning. Andy  Signature"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Unknown >From: "dan mcgraw" spam@onlysleeping.org >Date: 3/2/04 10:08 AM Eastern Standard Time [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >thanks - dan http://www.pennekamp.com/sw/ E-mail these guys, ask for Ric. I dove with them last year and got exemplary service. Popeye "If one does as God does enough times, one will become as God is." -Dr. Hannibal Lector. >I've been diving in Key Largo several times, and have these complaints: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >advanced certified) > I think the best diving in the Keys is in the middle keys, try Marathon or Islamarada. And the Keys are shallow water. That's why they have so many shipwrecks. > > I think the best diving in the Keys is in the middle keys, try Marathon > or Islamarada. And the Keys are shallow water. That's why they have so many shipwrecks. I think the operators in the middle and lower keys are more likely to take their customers to the better sites. They have to do something to draw them from the more convenient northern islands. There are some great sites between Key Largo and Islamorada and a lot of miles of reef between Islamorada and Marathon. You just have to have the resources to find them, whether that's a boat or your own or a cooperative dive operator. The Keys have dives at all depths, from so shallow that even snorkeling is hard, to way beyond what even the most technical of divers consider reasonable. Lee Just returned from there.Key largo.....................I was very dissapointed Shallow crappy diving. I was unfortunate to be diving with inexperienced pucking fools. Visibility sucked, the water was 73 degrees (cold) and nothing worth or really extraordinary. After seeing my "buddy" pucking his breakfast thru his regulator, my mind and stomach never recovered fully. Both snorkeler's on the boat never touched the water because they were pucking their hearts out. And believe me , the sea condition was almost flat. Go to the Caribbean if you can. Better visibility, real coral reefs and warmer water. >I've been diving in Key Largo several times, and have these complaints: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >thanks - dan > Just returned from there.Key largo.....................I was very > dissapointed [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Both snorkeler's on the boat never touched the water because they were > pucking their hearts out. Any diver that gets on a boat with snorkelers gets what he/she deserves. Lee >> Just returned from there.Key largo.....................I was very >> dissapointed [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Lee Amen! Being a S Florida local... I agree... GO TO THE CARIBBEAN...... But... in case you are interested.... When the winds and seas kick up in Key Largo, many operators will go to Hens and chickens because it is inside the reef line. Yes there is nothing to see but dead coral, poor vis, no real fish. Next time, do some research, ask the charter boat where they are going (Site, depth, distance) and if it is to rough to go deep... can you get your money back, get a ticket for another day. Most reputable boats will allow that... SOME will tell you no... if we go... you pay (no matter how bad the alternate spots are). I would also agree with Lee... snorkelers are not a good sign on the boat unless their name is Martin Stepanick or they are wearing 4' long fins. (Martin is attempting to break some crazy record with a snorkel...>>200') Enjoy St Thomas!!!! >>> Just returned from there.Key largo.....................I was very >>> dissapointed [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Amen! > Any diver that gets on a boat with snorkelers gets what he/she deserves. Okay. Not trying to start (or continue) a flame-war but why is the presence of snorkelers a problem? Is it just because it implies no depth on the dive? I'm asking this question seriously (this time!). - David David Gintz (formerly newdiver2@aol.com) wrote: >> Any diver that gets on a boat with snorkelers gets what he/she deserves. > > Okay. Not trying to start (or continue) a flame-war but why is the presence > of snorkelers a problem? Is it just because it implies no depth on the dive? > > I'm asking this question seriously (this time!). Sorta like showing up at a snowshoe race that includes cross country skiers. > Sorta like showing up at a snowshoe race that includes cross country skiers. I don't get it Mike. (And I both, snowshoe and cross-country ski!) (Although I'm looking forward to end of May when I hope to be in Boynton to dive with you folks again.) - David "David Gintz \(formerly newdiver2@aol.com\)" <d_gintzREMOVEALLUNDERSCORES@adel_ph_iaDOT_net> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Okay. Not trying to start (or continue) a flame-war but why is the presence :of snorkelers a problem? Is it just because it implies no depth on the dive? Going very deep is important to some people. I am not one of them. The only problem I ever had from diving with snorkellers was in Cozumel. This was at a site where the snorkellers tended to feed the fish, which caused feeding frenzies, and I ended up getting bit by a fish. Mind you, I could have stayed further away from the snorkellers, but I didn't. Dan Bracuk If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/ >> Okay. Not trying to start (or continue) a flame-war but why is the >> presence of snorkelers a problem? Is it just because it implies no >> depth on the dive? It implies sites with no depth. It implies a site that is suitable for snorkelers which, in my personal opinion, is unlikely to be the best place to spend a tank of gas. > Going very deep is important to some people. I am not one of them. Not relevant unless you consider roughly 30 feet, about as deep as the Keys snorkeling sites are, to be the measure of very deep. Lee I see all the "geniuses" here have their own "opinions". I was dissapointed on Key Largo diving. Continued to be. And won't reference these are to any "real" diver. I will keep my diving to the Caribbean and other warm water spots. I have dived out here in Rockport, MA........50 degree waters. I prefer the Caribbean diving anytime. Diving with cold water and no visibility is pointless. And that is not recreational diving, just bull crap. I love to "observe" the coral reef life, whatever is left at this point, before it all die in 50 years......................... If going to dive in any kind of cold water I prefer looking at pelagians of some sort big fish. It is my preference, does not have to be for you, or any of the "smart a.ses" here that think they know everything and can't fart without shiting their pants. BYe >I've been diving in Key Largo several times, and have these complaints: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >thanks - dan > I see all the "geniuses" here have their own "opinions". > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > a.ses" here that think they know everything and can't fart without > shiting their pants. How amusing. Somebody critical of all the geniuses that can't put a dozen sentences together correctly. |
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