SCUBA Diving in Pompano Beach, FL
WOW! What an incredible SCUBA diving trip this was! I can't believe how many things we saw on 4 drift dives and 2 wreck dives! Lobsters, octopus, lionfish, turtles, barracuda, eels, and a VERY rare surprise guest... you'll just have to watch to find out!
Thank you to my Dad for being the best dive buddy in the world! Having done 300+ dives in his life, I could just relax and enjoy the experience under his guidance.
I can't recommend Pompano Beach FL enough! We dove with South Florida Diving Headquarters. For my first wreck dives ever, the United Caribbean and the Ancient Mariner were perfect! Top ten moments in my life swimming the entire length of the Ancient Mariner - inside!
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Pompano Beach Snorkeling with a Sea Turtle a Beach Diving Location
Swimming out to the second reef in Pompano beach. Swimming with lots of fish and a sea turtle. I swam out near life guard stand number two and near the pier.
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Scuba Diving with a Whale Shark in Pompano Beach, Florida with Pompano Dive Center
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In between our 2 Dives we visited a Whale Shark who was passing through.
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We estimate the Whale Shark to be right around 30 feet in length.
The sighting was on 11.25.12 about a 1/4 mile off of Pompano Beach Shore.
Video footage contributed to Pompano Dive Center by Al Portelli and Gina Cochrane.
Still Images contributed to Pompano Dive Center by Guillaume Bauch,
All Footage was recorded using a Go Pro with Go Pro Dive Housing.
Pompano Dive Center
101 N. Riverside Dr., Suite 111,
Pompano Beach, FL 33062
(954) 788-0208
info@pompanodivecenter.com
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176 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33432
(561) 218-4492
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Scuba Diving Lady Luck Florida, Pompano
Lady Luck Wreck
Location: Pompano Beach
Depth Range: 80-131'
Skill Level: Advanced
The Lady Luck is a 324 ft tanker vessel that was sunk on July 23rd, 2016 and is one of the biggest contributions to Florida’s artificial reef system. Originally named the Newtown Creek, the Lady Luck was built in 1967 and operated as a sewage tanker for nearly 50 years, transporting 1.2 million gallons of sewage per day. She was decommissioned in 2014 and sold to Shipwreck Park Inc. in 2016 thanks to contributions from the city of Pompano Beach and Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park. Artist Dennis MacDonald, of Pompano Beach, was hired to create casino themed displays as a part of the Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park sponsorship. Some of the art displays include a mermaid waitress, an octopus dealer, giant dice, and poker table with card sharks all can be viewed in this video.
The Lady Luck currently sits in 131 ft, with the deck at 105 ft.
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Scuba Girl Dives the Captain Dan: Shipwreck in Pompano Beach, FL
Epic Dive through Captain Dan Shipwreck in Pompano Beach, FL (110 ft salt water)... If you like this video, then take the dive and subscribe! More awesome adventures to come.
Scuba Diving with Dive Rite, Pompano Beach, Florida
This 6 minute movie features 4 closed circuit and 2 open circuit divers, including representatives from Dive Rite. We dove the morning of 29-Sept-2009, from Scubatyme III Charters. The first half of the video shows divers swimming between the United Caribbean wreck to the Sea Emperor wreck, both at about 70 fsw. The second dive was on Hillsboro Ledge and Abby Too Reef, at about 50 fsw. Notice how good all the divers look in the water!
Diving under Blue Heron Bridge with Tom Carpenter and South Florida Beach Divers
Diving under Blue Heron Bridge with Tom Carpenter and South Florida Beach Divers
2017 Okinawa Sinking and First Dive - Shipwreck Park Pompano Beach
Shipwreck Park Pompano Beach is the new home for another sunken vessel adorned with artwork in this vast artificial reef system and underwater cultural arts park just north of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The 107-foot Okinawa sank perfectly August 19, 2017, just one mile off of Pompano Beach in 70-feet of water. She joins 16 other nearby sunken ships that are already covered in marine life, including the park’s centerpiece, the 234-foot Lady Luck, which was sunk last year.
The Okinawa is a tugboat built in 1953 for the U.S. Army with an interesting wheelhouse, large engine room and sleeping quarters for more than a dozen crewmembers. Like the Lady Luck, the Okinawa is adorned with whimsical artwork by world-renowned Pompano Beach artist Dennis MacDonald. On her deck behind the smoke stack, divers can visit the Midnight Sun dive bar” complete with a sculpted pirate-style mermaid as the barmaid, surrounded by giant sea snakes and starfish. The artwork is designed to be fun for divers and for establishing homes for new coral colonies and schools of fish.
“The sinking of the Okinawa continues our mission to create awareness for protecting our ocean environment and growing our artificial reef system to take pressure off of the natural reefs nearby,” says Rob Wyre, chairman of the not-for-profit Shipwreck Park, Inc., which raised the funds to sink both the Lady Luck and the Okinawa. “The Okinawa offers an easily accessible underwater cultural arts attraction for divers and snorkelers of all skill levels.” Finlandia, with it's corporate mission to support clean water, was the biggest sponsor for the sinking of the Okinawa.
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Pompano Beach Shore Dive
Dive was on July 2, 2018
Pompano Beach Dropoff, Florida shore diving
Pompano Dropoff is a beautiful reef for shore diving or snorkeling.
Park in the lot at the end of Atlantic Blvd. You can also enter from SE 2th Street. Must have a flag because boating traffic can be busy in the area.
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Wrecks and Reef Trip - Pompano, FL
Life Underwater went to Pompano, FL and saw a ton of amazing marine life, wrecks, and or course, reefs. We made 5 dives including one twilight (not quite night) dive. Saturday evening we feasted on terrific German cuisine at Checkers Old Muenchen - always a favorite stop (probably because they sell beer in liter boots)!! After diving on Sunday, we made a ritual stop at Flanigan's for lunch and then trekked back to Tampa. It was an awesome weekend - here are some highlights.
Florida Shore Diving: Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
This is a great shore dive here in South Florida at Lauderdale-by-the-sea just off of commercial Blvd. This stretch of coast is known as the capital of shore diving in Florida for good reason. There are plenty of natural ledges to explore just off the beach, but you do have to swim out a bit to reach them. We also investigated the Biorock reef that was installed in 2011. This is an interesting concept that involves electricity to precipitate minerals on a metal structure in order to build limestone. The project has been discontinued, but this will show you what has developed over the past seven years.
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Snorkeling Pompano Beach, FL
First time filming via Gopro snorkeling, in Fort Lauderdale Florida on Pompano Beach.
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Diving USS Copenhagen in Lauderdale Florida (Deans Dive Center Fort Myers FL)
Diving the USS Copenhagen in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea / Pompano Beach Florida. Dive trip with Deans Dive Center in Fort Myers FL and dove with South Florida Dive Headquarters on the Black Pearl. We dove the SS Copenhagen and the Nursery.
COPENHAGEN
Type of Dive: Mooring Buoy / Drift
Depth Range: 15-30 ft
Skill Level: Open Water Diver or Snorkeler
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Description: The SS Copenhagen was a steamer 325' long with a beam of 47'. The wreck is broken up along the eastern side of the Pompano Drop Off. While some of the wreckage is buried you can still make out many features of the wreck. It is nostalgic diving or snorkeling a wreck site over a hundred years old. Usually you see large schools of bait fish being chased by the rest of the food chain.
History: The British cargo ship Copenhagen was built by Priestman & Co. of Sunderland in 1898. The Copenhagen was owned by Glasgow Ship Owners Co. While en route from Philadelphia to Havana with 4,940 tons of coal, she ran aground on the Pompano Drop Off. Although the ship was unsalvageable, her cargo was saved. The Copenhagen remained partially visible above the water until WWII naval fighter pilots used her for target practice sending her to the bottom where she sits today. The Copenhagen was declared a State Underwater Archaeological Preserve in 1994.
NURSERY
Type of Dive: Mooring Buoy / Drift
Depth Range: 15-30 ft
Skill Level: Open Water Diver or Snorkeler
Location: Pompano Beach (ridge complex)
Description: We named this site the Nursery many years ago after the family of nurse sharks that reside here. There is good habitat here, with large under cut ledges. The sharks are used to divers and snorkelers and usually swim around under the boat. Hundreds of other fish surround the snorkelers on the surface..Occasionally we see the resident morey eel. The Nursery has been featured in numerous T.V. shows and magazines.
Navigation: The Nursery is usually an anchor dive, because most participants want to stay and interact with the nurse sharks. However take a flag and venture down the ledge and come back for more shark action. This is the best shallow dive in SE Florida!
Shipwreck Diving in Pompano Beach.
Scuba Earth Video Contest Submission, Odyssey Charters
This video shows the various wrecks and aquatic life surrounding Pompano Beach, Florida. All of these dives were done with Odyssey Charters and they can be reached at 855-DIVE-SFL. Please visit ocharters.com for additional information, or to make reservations to see these Shipwrecks for yourself !
Scuba Diving in Pompano Beach, FL. The Okinawa Wreck Barracuda!
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Pompano Beach Florida GoPro Snorkeling Video
Florida Pompano Beach 2015 Snorkeling
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Mergulho no Nursery Reef - Pompano Beach, FL
Mergulho no Nursery Reef - Pompano Beach, FL
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Scuba Diving at Barracuda Reef, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
My Wife and I did a couple of dives while spending a weekend in Ft. Lauderdale. It is a nice slow drift dive.
Surrounded by 29 mooring buoys--the first markers to be installed in Broward County--Barracuda reef is an excellent spot for fish-watching. Located a half-mile out from the John U. Lloyd State Recreational Area, this reef lies in 35 feet of water. The site has a high profile reef ledge that rises 10 to 15 feet from the bottom. This reef offers a sight similar to that of reefs in the Florida Keys with a healthy concentration of stag horn, star, and brain corals. Fish life is plentiful and lobsters, crabs, and moray eels can be found underneath ledges that rise about four feet from the bottom. Boat traffic is heavy in the area and divers should exercise caution when exploring this reef.
Filmed by Oleg Kaplun using GoPro Hero 2. Two Lights & Motion Sola 2000 Lights. Backscatter Red Filter
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Scuba Diving RSV Pompano Beach, F.L
Advanced Nitrox Deep Dive, RSV, Pompano Beach F.L. 130'
Filmed with GoPro Hero Black 4.
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