Diving And Snorkeling In Key West Florida

Focuses on 14 segments of the Florida Reef, featuring historically significant wrecks, lighthouses, state parks, etc. Provides GPS coordinates and practical travel hints.

Abbeville launches a new series of scuba diving guides more complete than any other guides on the market.Full-color, three-dimensional maps of each dive site offer what no book has ever before provided: the information needed to plan your dive down to the last detail. You can review the exact layout of the site-including depths, sizes, and distances between reefs and wrecks or any hazards -- and even the lighting conditions for optimum underwater photography. The short chapters covering the 28 dives in each book provide crucial data about depth, currents, weather variables, and plant and animal life, and each book ends with a full-color visual encyclopedia of the most common fish that inhabit the area.The lively text by dive experts has been vetted by Diving Science and Technology Corporation (DSAT), which is a corporate affiliate of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), making these the most reliable guides for the expert as well as the first-time diver.Watch for future titles on the Red Sea and the Great Barrier Reef.

Provides information on diving and snorkeling in the Florida Keys. Describes and provides addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers for local dive shops and charters that provide gear and boats for these sports. Includes Andy Griffiths Charters, Atlantic Fury Catamarans, Easy Day Charters and Tours, Key West Boat Rentals, Key West Pro Dive Shop, and Southpoint Divers. Offers links to issues of the "Diver's Journal," a monthly newsletter offering insight into diving and snorkeling off the Florida Keys.

Beautifully illustrated with full-colour photos, Lonely Planet's Pisces Books explore the world's best diving and snorkeling areas and prepare divers for what to expect when they get there, both topside and underwater.

The Florida Keys is the seventh book in the Reef Smart Guides line of dive and snorkel guidebooks. The definitive guide to diving and snorkeling in the Florida Keys, this guide book provides information and 3D rendered illustrations for more than 100 dive and snorkel sites stretching from North Key Largo down to the Dry Tortugas. The book provides information about how to access each site, what to expect at the site and how best to explore it. The unique 3D maps offer insight into the reefs and wrecks of the area with an incredible level of detail and accuracy.

Includes: Atlantic (Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Bermuda, Florida Keys); Caribbean (Barbados, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cozumel, Curacao, United States Virgin Islands); Central America (Belize); South America (Brazil); Pacific (Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary, Santa Catalina, Galapagos, Hawaii).

This candid travel destination guide is an honest fishing and diving appraisal of Florida's fresh water springs and coastal waters including the Keys, Gold Coast, Middle Atlantic, Upper Atlantic, Lower Gulf, and Upper Gulf. A detailed index, numerous photos, and tourism contacts are included. This comprehensive book features artificial reef loran numbers, fresh water springs and caves, inshore flats and channels, reefs and barrier islands, back country estuaries and Gulf stream passes.

As a boy growing up in Miami, The author fell in love with the beauty of the Keys And The Everglades wilderness. Color photos and maps throughout. The Florida Keys attract visitors from all over the world. They are renowned for their pristine waters, great snorkeling and diving, superb sportfishing And The laid-back ambiance. Previous editions of this guide have always been top sellers. Scuba diving, sailing, fishing, windsurfing, nature hikes, airboat rides, historic sites, music festivals, art galleries, shopping--the author details them all. Where to get the best key lime pie, The best seafood, homemade jams and other treats--it's all here. Accommodations range from luxury resorts to small family B&Bs and campgrounds. Like other Travel Adventure Guides, this shows you how to experience the destination more intensely and directly than most travelers know how to do--getting out of the taxi or the rental car and seeing the place close-up, through walks, bike rides, horseback excursions, culinary adventures, interacting with the people.