INSHORE-TYPICALLY 8 MILES AND LESS FROM THE PASS

Normal inshore trips are to the Black Bart and Span 14 or the USS Strength, Red Sea or one of the Spans ( 2, 12) in their vicinity. Shipwrecks are typically 75' deep to the sand with most of the dive being above 60'. 

SOUTH WEST

The Black Bart- 180' Oil Field Supply Vessel

Hovercraft- Former military Amphibious Assault Craft
Hathaway Bridge Span 14- Metal Truss Span 110' long 

 Warsaw Hole- Natural limestone reef (liveboat dive only)

Central

These sites are very small and we do not dive here often.

Chickasaw- Tug Boat

Dan Safety Barge

B&B Barge

East

Red Sea Tug- 110' Tug Boat

Bridge Span 12 and Span 2

USS Strength (below)- Naval Minesweeper, sunk with explosives.

West

Oleander Reef
Heaven Reef
Bridge Spans 5 & 6 (Original Hathaway Bridge)

Offshore- Advanced-Adventure Cert and Nitrox is required for these dives

Dives are typically 100-110' to the sand with structure starting around 70'. The dive sites are more than 12 miles from the pass.

South West

Tarpon (below)- Steam driven ship sunk during a storm with beer and flour onboard.

Commander- Small Tug Boat sunk by fire.
Stage 1- Large footprint of the old Naval Diving Stage. Similar to an oil rig in structure.
Hathaway Bridge Spans 7-10
Grey Ghost- This small tog boat is mostly note worthy as being the original artificial reef from Panama City and that it lays on a nice natural limestone reef.

South

Accokeek- Another retired Naval Support vessel, the Accokeek is a fantiastic dive. She is 180' long with many swim throughs and large resident Golaith Grouper.

DuPont Bridge Spans-Part of the DuPont Bridge that connects Panama City to Tyndal AFB and the Forgotten Coast. Theese Spans were deployed in 2009 and are slightly larger than the Hathaway Spans.

El Dorado- A Casino ship grounded by two hurricanes and deployed as a sdive site in 2019. It is 180' from DuPont Span 3 and we hope to have a bread crumb trail of reef modules between the two sites. 

The 144' long casino ship "El Dorado" shortly before sinking.

Mac's Reef

Chippewa (below)- A retired military tug/utility vessel. This is another of Panama CIty's must dive shipwrecks.

BJ Putnam
Bridge Span 3
Bridge Span 13

Technical Dives

3 to 5s Reef 130-160fsw
Birmingham Queen 150fsw
USCG Zennia 180fsw
USS Ozark 330fsw