This KMZ file shows dive sites throughout Florida within Google Earth. By no means has this list encompassed all of the great diving in the State of Florida. If your favorite site is not listed, please feel free to let us know. If there are feature that you would like to see added, again let us know.
What's Included:
- Current Conditions
- Current Coal Reef Watch (Live Feed)
- Hotspots
- Sea Surface Temperatures
- SST Anomaly
- Data for Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, Western Pacific and Indian Oceans
- National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) Buoys around Florida
- Geospatially correct locations of 36 NDBC buoys around Florida with links to live data on the NDBC web site.
- Real Time Stream Flow
- Provides information on hundreds of Rivers, Streams and Creeks around Florida.
- Weather
- SE US Radar Image
- Radar images of the Southeastern United States from the Warning Decision Support System -- Integrated Information and the University of Oklahoma
- Updated every two minutes
- SE US Radar Loop
- Radar images of the Southeastern United States from the Warning Decision Support System -- Integrated Information and the University of Oklahoma
- Updated every two minutes
- Will take a few minutes to load, and can be used to track the direction of storms.
- Hurricanes Lives Position
- Updated every ten minutes
- Provides the position, strength, and projected track of hurricanes world wide.
- Links to web cams in the area of the hurricane.
- World wide visible cloud cover.
- Locations
- Artificial Reefs – Latitude / Longitude and depth of over 3500 artificial reefs around the State of Florida as provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Reef Locator. Broken down in the following segments:
- Ships – Lists ships that have been sunk as part of the Artificial Reef program.
- East Coast – Artificial reefs located on the east coast of Florida.
- West Coast – Artificial reefs located on the west coast of Florida.
- The Keys – Artificial reefs located around the Florida Keys.
- NPS Historic Shipwrecks – Lists thirteen shipwrecks listed on the National Parks Service National Register of Historic Places that are accessible to divers and reveal the wonders and mysteries of Florida's maritime past.
- Shipwrecks – Over Fifty “shipwrecks” (not scuttled) sites around the State of Florida. Most have a brief history and pictures of the ship.
- Springs, Sinks, Caves and Caverns – Lists over 150 Springs and Sinks throughout the State of Florida that contains diving for Cave, Cavern or Open Water Diving. Some site listed are “closed” or the access is available only through the specified groups.
- State Parks – Lists over 25 Florida State Parks where diving is listed as an activity.
What you'll need: Google Earth (FREE) and the Florida Diving KMZ file (315 kb). |