Can you recommend a dive shop in Ft. Laureldale?

[Sasha_K]

Hello guys

It looks like I will get an unexpected opportunity to dive in Ft. Laureldale. I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good dive shop. My interenet search found a few affordable places, but I also wanted to see if anyone has a recommendation.

Thanks in advance

Sasha

[Splitlip]

Hey Sasha.

Visit Scubaboard, Florida Conch Divers forum. You'll get a butt load.

(Conch Divers are nice people)

[scubagirlj]

i like sea experience, my husband prefers prodive-both in los olas area on the beach & marina-one does mornings and the other afternoons-both really great group of people that run top rate DOs

[maverick]

The America II out of Fort Lauderdale. Affordable.

[DMWiz]

At the risk of sounding like a parrot, I'll ask you this question: Do you want a dive shop or a dive op?

I can give you both, but some of the best dive ops don't have a dive shop and the best dive shop doesn't have a boat.

American Dream is a very well liked dive op.

I like Parrot Island. SFDH and Sea Experience as well.

Pro Dive is also experiencing a resurgence and they're doing a great job at attracting the locals.

There are many more and they all have their pros and cons depending when and where you want to dive. If you give me more details about what you want to do I can give you more specific information too.

Have a great time!

[Sasha_K]

Thanks a ton for recommendations guys.

DM Wiz - I'm just looking to dive in warm water (I live in Toronto - enough said :-) - and I was looking for a dive op , apologies for not being specific enough.

I see that most of the shops dive the same locations - i.e. the ones in table below. Are there any dives you'd recommend?


Sunday, October 4
Tracy (70’) / 30’ Reef
Monday, October 5
Merci Jesus (70’) / 30’ Reef
Tuesday, October 6
Hog Heaven (70’) / 30’ Reef
Wednesday, October 7
Edmister (70’) / 30’ Reef
Thursday, October 8
Jay Scutti (70’) / 30’ Reef
Friday, October 9
Tenneco Towers (110’) / 30’ Reef
Saturday, October 10
Tracy (70’) / 30’ Reef
Saturday, September 10 NIGHT
Mercedes (100’) / 30’ Reef
Sunday, October 11
Edmister (70’) / 30’ Reef
Monday, October 12
Hog Heaven (70’) / 30’ Reef
Tuesday, October 13
Jay Scutti (70’) / 30’ Reef
Wednesday, October 14
Merci Jesus (70’) / 30’ Reef
Thursday, October 15
Edmister (70’) / 30’ Reef
Friday, October 16
Mercedes (100’) / 30’ Reef
Saturday, October 17
Jay Scutti (70’) / 30’ Reef
Saturday, October 17 NIGHT
Hog Heaven (70’) / 30’ Reef
Sunday, October 18
Tracy (70’) / 30’ Reef

[scubagirlj]

a fellow canuck(for you), marcy, is the DM at sea experience-they have something called the 5 wreck trek you might be interested in

[DMWiz]

The 5 wreck trek is basically the Mercy Jesus, The Tracy, The Scutti, The Pride and The Moonshot. The first three are nice, but since there's usually a north current you're usually dropped on the Moonshot and drift to the others. I often just skip the first two and spend most of the dive in the last three with a north current. Max depth is 75'

[DMWiz]

Sunday, October 4
Tracy (70’) / 30’ Reef
Monday, October 5
Merci Jesus (70’) / 30’ Reef

You can do both of these on one dive, (read the previous post on the wreck trek)

Tuesday, October 6
Hog Heaven (70’) / 30’ Reef
Wednesday, October 7
Edmister (70’) / 30’ Reef
Thursday, October 8
Jay Scutti (70’) / 30’ Reef

Most of these 70' wrecks are about the same.

Friday, October 9
Tenneco Towers (110’) / 30’ Reef

Tenneco is a very cool deeper dive. Highly recommend it
Another dive I would recommend, but it's absent from your list is The Sea Emperor (Specially at night). You can also hit a couple of other wrecks from there.
The Miracle of life is a newly sunk ship in deeper water.
Both of the night dives listed are also very nice. Specially Hog Heaven.

Yes a lot of the ops go to the same places all the time so you can pick which op based on their scheduled locations. But the difference is often going to be on the little things like bottom times SIs and your second site. Some ops will go to near shore reefs that get visited very often while others will take you to less visited sites.

[DMWiz]

Originally Posted by Sasha_K

DM Wiz - I'm just looking to dive in warm water (I live in Toronto - enough said :-) - and I was looking for a dive op , apologies for not being specific enough.

BTW, I did the wreck trek yesterday and there was a canadian on the boat asking exactly what you're asking. I thought it was you.