Scuba Diving in Florida, United States

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USCGC Duane Wreck

Florida · —

1936 Treasury-class cutter

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Chippewa

Florida · Up to 31.1 m

Artificial reef built from 204' Tugboat, the "Chippewa"

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Juniper Springs is a historic CCC-era swimming spring in the Ocala National Forest, with a stone millhouse and a famous 7-mile paddling run. It is a swim/snorkel site only: scuba diving is prohibited (Alexander Springs is the only spring in the forest where diving is allowed) and the pool reaches only about 8 ft deep.

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Jay Scutti

Florida · Up to 20.4 m

Artificial reef built from 95' Tug, the "Jay Scutti "and 95' Schooner, the "Harbour Towne"

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Miss Louise

Florida · Up to 17.7 m

Artificial reef built from 95' Steel Tug Boat, the "Miss Louise"

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Esso Bonaire

Florida · Up to 27.4 m

Artificial reef built from 147' Tanker, the "Esso Bonaire III"

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Joe's Tug

Florida · Up to 19.8 m

Artificial reef built from 90' Long Tugboat

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Troy Spring

Florida · 1.2–21.3 m

Troy Spring is a first-magnitude spring on the Suwannee River in Troy Spring State Park, with a clear bowl dropping to about 70 ft — one of the deepest open-water spring dives in Florida that requires no cavern certification. In the shallow spring run lie the ribs of the Madison, a Confederate sidewheel steamboat scuttled in 1863 to keep it from Union capture. Diving is open-water only: certified divers with a buddy, no lights and no cave penetration.

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Sylvia

Florida · Up to 25 m

The tug Sylvia is one of several tugboats scuttled as public artificial reefs in the Escambia County reef zones off Pensacola Beach. She rests on sand in about 82 feet of water; storms have removed her wheelhouse and upper deck and the hull has subsided roughly 20% into the bottom. The remaining hull still holds plenty of reef fish and is commonly paired with neighboring reefs on two-tank charter trips.

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