DIVING in KEY LARGO !! LIVING OUR BEST LIFE / SHARKS !!!
This week we decided to head down to Key Largo and work our way through the Keys this year. It was amazing, the water was so clear and beautiful. It was exactly what a post card would look like. I now have a new found respect and desire to dive in open waters and will be focusing on getting my own equipment.
Captain Slate was who we dove with along with his daughter Sky. I highly recommend working with them.
Here is a little about Key Largo.
Key Largo is the first of the fabulous Florida Keys and is the self-proclaimed Dive Capital of the World. It is home to the world's largest artificial reef, the 510-foot USS Spiegel Grove, the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and the African Queen. Everglades National Park is just a short trip away from Key Largo.
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Scuba Florida - Emocean Sports Social Scuba Dive in Key Largo, Florida
presents: Our Emocean Sports team had a blast diving in the warm clear waters of Key Largo, Florida. Scuba diving in Key Largo is a must for your dive bucket list, especially since Key Largo is known as the Dive Capital of the World! Our Emocean Sports Instructor Andy Olday of Key West, Florida created this dive video of our amazing underwater experience diving in Key Largo!
2016 Boys Keys Trip Big Pine Key & Key West Plus Fishing & Diving
Five Guys on a Five Day trip to the keys. Staying on Big Pine Key, fishing the back country, diving Looe Key w Goliath Grouper, Dinner at the No Name Pub, Alabama Jacks, Robbie's for feeding the tarpon. Craig's Restaurant with Best Fish Sandwich. Key West, Duval Street, Malory Square, Some alcohol involved. Happy hour at the end of the street.
Best Snorkel Trip in Key Largo Florida with Sail Fish Scuba
Snorkel Trip with Sail Fish Scuba in Key Largo Florida
We had a blast with Sail Fish Scuba. Thanks for the wonderful and personalized snorkel trip to the coral reefs.
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Key West Adventures!
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Went on a Social Dive with Diver Direct employees in Key Largo. First we went to French Reef and then Molasses Reef. Nice vis and fun time!
Colleen, Skylar and Sara's diving Adventure with Key Largo Dive Center
SeeMyBeach.com's Colleen takes a couple of her friends on a Florida Keys diving adventure with Key Largo Dive Center. Their Dive guide was Jason and they chose to dive at Wolf Reef.
Mooching about Key Largo
Check out the full trip report at ... Very laid back living down here with excellent scuba diving sites in the John Pennekamp reef. The nearby hurricane curtailed some activities but we enjoyed it nonetheless.
Body Glove Stand Up Paddleboards now available in Florida at Divers Direct
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Driving in the Florida keys
This a drive through the Florida keys all the way to Key West
Florida Keys Experience - Sombrero Beach and Sister's Creek
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Hurricane Irma 4
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Category 4 hurricane (1-min mean)
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As of: 5:00 a.m. EDT September 8 (09:00 UTC September 9)
Location: 22.5°N 78.8°W ± 10 nm
About 45 mi (70 km) E of Caibarién, Cuba
About 245 mi (395 km) SSE of Miami, Florida
Sustained winds: 135 kn (155 mph; 250 km/h) (1-min mean)
gusting to 165 kn (190 mph; 305 km/h)
Pressure: 930 mbar (hPa; 27.47 inHg)
Movement: WNW at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
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Hurricane Irma is an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that is currently making landfall in Cuba and is threatening the Southeastern United States. It is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the strongest landfalling cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin as well as the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Wilma of 2005 in terms of maximum sustained winds, the most intense in terms of pressure since Dean in 2007, and the first of such intensity to make landfall anywhere in the Atlantic since Felix in 2007. Irma is also the first Category 5 hurricane on record to affect the northern Leeward Islands, and only the second hurricane on record to make landfall in Cuba at such an intensity, with the other being a hurricane in 1924. A typical Cape Verde hurricane,[1][2][3] Irma developed on August 30 near the Cape Verde Islands from a tropical wave that had moved off the west African coast two days prior. It is the ninth named storm, fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.[4][5][6]
Under favorable conditions, Irma rapidly intensified shortly after formation, becoming a Category 2 hurricane within a mere 24 hours. It became a Category 3 hurricane (and therefore a major hurricane) shortly afterward; however, the intensity fluctuated for the next several days due to a series of eyewall replacement cycles. On September 5, Irma became a Category 5 hurricane, and by early the next day, Irma reached peak intensity with 185 mph (295 km/h) winds and a minimum pressure of 914 mbar (914 hPa; 27.0 inHg). This ties it as the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane nd the Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago located off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost portion of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas. The islands lie along the Florida Straits, dividing the Atlantic Ocean to the east from the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and defining one edge of Florida Bay. At the nearest point, the southern part of Key West is just 90 miles (140 km) from Cuba. The Florida Keys are between about 23.5 and 25.5 degrees North latitude.
More than 95 percent of the land area lies in Monroe County, but a small portion extends northeast into Miami-Dade County, such as Totten Key. The total land area is 137.3 square miles (356 km2). As of the 2010 census the population was 73,090 with an average density of 532.34 per square mile (205.54/km2),[1] although much of the population is concentrated in a few areas of much higher density, such as the city of Key West, which has 32% of the entire population of the Keys. The US Census population estimate for 2014 is 77,136.
The city of Key West is the county seat of Monroe County. The county consists of a section on the mainland which is almost entirely in Everglades National Park, and the Keys islands from Key Largo to the Dry Tortugas.
Spearfishing Key West, FL HD
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Scuba Florida - GoPro: Bug Out! Florida Spiny Lobster Season
presents:The regular Spiny Lobster harvesting season starts August 6th! Are you ready to bag all the bugs for Florida lobster season? Find tickle sticks, complete lobster kits, lobster gauges, lobster hotels, lobster snares, and more lobstering gear at one of our six local dive shops in the Florida Keys(Key Largo & Key West), Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando!
Mergulho Key Largo (FL) - USA #diveordie
Mergulho no Spiegel Grove Wreck e Sand Bottom Cave (French Reef)
Great snorkeling in Key Largo - Christ of the Abyss - Molasses reef
We went on the Molasses reef in Key Largo and the the Christ of the abyss. It was pretty cool except for the jellyfish.
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Key Largo Coral Reefs: Hurricane Irma Aftermath 2017
Key Largo Coral Reefs: Hurricane Irma Aftermath 2017
Key largo did not receive a direct hit, but with hurricane force winds and the resulting wave action pounding the reefs, I was very interested in getting back out to see what it all looked like. This video includes footage from Molasses reef and Sand Island Reef on December 23rd 2017 (about 3 months after the Hurricane).
The descriptions and possible causes presented in this video are based on talks with our dive masters and observation. There is little published research yet, so I will definitely be back with more solid info at a later date.
Either way, it is obvious the reefs have undergone significant change in some locations, and in other areas, the corals survived surprisingly well. Our dive masters expressed their belief that a lot of the sand was removed from Molasses Reef, leaving bare/rock/rubble bottom. I definitely see how they could say that, but it also looks like corals were hammered to pieces in some areas as well.
The fish assemblages have changed a lot as well...there are many more than I remember before, but that could be just circumstantial.
The Florida Keys reef track has been undergoing a stressful few years with widespread bleaching and disease impacting the coral. Add on a hurricane and I do worry about the reef track as a whole.
Hurricanes can actually be good for a coral reef. Broken fragments of coral will get redistributed and start growing in new areas, causing a rejuvenation of sorts. But when the water quality and conditions are not conducive to coral growth, it makes me more difficult.
I was encouraged by seeing large stands of Elkhorn still intact, and broken fragments beginning to grow where they landed…. This is nature’s way and hopefully will lead to a rebuilding of coral.
Either way, these were great dives filled with a high diversity of fish and marine life.
Until next time!
P.S.: I did delete the first posting of this video as I needed to make a few corrections.
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References About the Florida Keys Reef track.
Florida’s Coral Reef is Disintegrating
Florida’s Dying Reefs Could Devastate Keys’ Economy
South Florida Corals Dying in “unprecedented” bleaching and disease
Saving Florida’s Precious Coral Reef After Hurricanes Irma and Maria
Range of Conditions’s for Florida Keys Reefs After the Hurricane
Divers Looking at Coral Reefs After Irma didn’t Expect what they saw down below
Sanctuary: Reef bruised but not destroyed