Black Water Drift Diving

If you’ve been diving in West Palm Beach, it’s likely that you’ve seen jellyfish, shrimp, crabs, and lobsters. But few know what is drifting in mid-water close to the Gulf Stream until you go out and see it for yourself. If you’ve seen the pictures, you’ve seen some pretty alien-like creatures. Most of what we see there is in its larvae stage of growth and life. The pictures you see are so gorgeous and some of the subjects might look pretty familiar to you. What you may not realize is how small the critters are. But it's not only the size of things that excite us on these dives but also the rare creatures that we’re not used to seeing and may not see on the reef and the rare forms of common critters we see all of the time.

Black Water Drift Diving in West Palm Beach for the first time changed my outlook on the ocean as a whole! I would have never believed that Caribbean Spiny Lobsters drift at 40ft, 560ft above the ocean floor. I saw things that I never thought I would see. After close to 100 of these dives, I’m still amazed at what I see. I see things that I can easily identify and there are things that I have no clue what to call them. There are photo groups on social media sites and a few great websites out there to help us identify the critters in our pictures. And there are many marine biologists that monitor those photo groups and help us identify them too. It's quite a community of divers.
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