9 Foot Stake dive site

Overview

Description

Fallen 9 ft telephone pole fell making a reef. Wreckage of an old light house is at the NE point, look around under the water for things like iron bars, and pilings and other stuff that the fish and marine life use for home. The coral rock is a typical spur groove formation. They provide protection for reef fish such as Spanish hogfish, yellow goatfish, and blue tags as well as large barracudas, turtles, snappers, eagle rays, moray eels, sharks, jacks, parrot fish, lobsters, conchs, crabs, stingrays, grunts, angelfish, lionfish, Brain coral , gorgonian coral and stony. This is within the Florida keys national marine sanctuary Good for all divers, all certification levels, discover scuba, its great for taking photos, videos. Buoyancy certification , search and rescue.

Location 24.47167, -81.76417Get Directions

Useful training for this sitePADI Open Water Diver, PADI Discover Scuba Diving, PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Scuba Refresher, PADI Underwater Navigator, PADI Boat Diver, PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy, PADI Night Diver, PADI Underwater Photographer, PADI Underwater Videographer

Dive Types

Reef, Ocean

Suggested Equipment

Booties, Camera, Dive Flag, Dive skin, Gloves, Rash guard, Shorty, Surface Marker Buoy, Torch, Wetsuit

Entry

Boat

Common SightingsGrouper, Nurse sharks, Brain coral, Coral, conches, Elkhorn Corals, yellow tube sponge, Giant barrel sponge, Reef fish ( Scorpionfish, boxfish,puffer fish, surgeonfish, angelfish, bannerfish, triggerfish, parrotfish, trumpetfish, pipefish, clown fish, sweetlips, snaper, grouper, lionfish etc), Stingrays, Crayfish, stingrays, moray eels, dolphins, moki, kahawai

Water Type

Salt

Maximum Depth 9 feet / 2 meters

Entry

BoatShore/Beach

Common SightingsSharks, Whales, Dolphins, Turtles

Water Type

Salt

Maximum Depth 9 feet / 2 meters

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