With its calm blue waters and easy-to-get-to location at the southerly most tip of the United States, the Florida Keys is an excellent place to get your PADI Scuba Diver or Open Water Certification. You don't have to tromp outside the country in order to get the best scuba diving instruction and training in the world at a very affordable price.
Some of the best PADI instructor training dive centers are listed below. Give them a call, they'll customize a trip and courses just for you and you're on your way to doing something you've always dreamed of. Life is just to short. Why wait?
Florida Keys Dive Center - Key Largo, FL
Key West Diving & Snorkel - Key West, FL
Conch Republic Divers -Tavernier, FL
FL Keys Diving - Diving centers throughout all the islands
Now dive vicariously with me as I go under the surface of the water and enter a world so calm and so peaceful:
Beneath the sea I float in fascination. The sea creatures are as curious about me as I am about them. I find a world where God threw away all the rules of nature and went wild with His imagination. Normal colors of nature such as browns, greens, and tans are cast away like buckets of leftover paint and replaced by electric blue, glow-in-the-dark green, and candy apple red splash a permanence on all the ocean life.
My schedule and worries drift; silence surrounds my deep breathing and replace the clatter of the modern world. A butterfly fish mesmerizes me for a couple of minutes, but in actuality, for more than half an hour! I follow it with amazement upon its deception - extra "eyes" on its tail which allows it to confuse predators. Thus allowing it to escape from being the fresh catch of the day.
"Plants that are actually animals and "animals" that are actually plants keep me in awesome wonder. A shark nestles below and I amaze my friends with a close-up shot of a creature so feared. I reassure them that it's just a nurse shark and all it may do is give a giant hickey but a close friend responds, "I don't care. If I were that close to a shark, the water would suddenly turn brown and murky, if you know what I mean!"
A spotted eel tucked away in the coral pokes its head out at me as if to say, "Go ahead. Take a picture of me." It has a very grimacing look and I'm not believing what lies before my eyes but I do snap the shot - everything under the sea is so photogenic. Creatures of the deep that only exist in mythical imaginations actually do exist here.
This liquid screen is better than any movie ever dreamed up on the Silver Screen. So it's time to power down the computer and go book your diving trip and get scuba certified!
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