jimicasper
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Went to the Keys last week for the first time. The dive shop in Key West was awesome. Dive Key West. Very friendly good dive trip allaround great people. The reefs looked beautiful. 
Just got back from Key West
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parothead22
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I bet! You are lucky...never been, though I want to go soon, as well as visit Margaritaville and the stomping ground of Jimmy Buffett!
Alot of nice diving and snorkeling there from what I heard...
Alot of nice diving and snorkeling there from what I heard...
Make sure you go south of Tavinier, just got back from a week in key largo (upper keys) the reef there are DEAD! Just alot of reef rubble laying where the reefs used to be. I grew up in miami and have been diving the reefs in the keys for 45 years and have never seen it so bad. If they don't stop big sugar in the everglades the death of the reefs in florida will spread south over time. The dive boats out of the upper keys are still taking tourists out and they dive on the reefs, but it is just soft corals and sea fans, which,look nice, but there are NO hard corals left. We had our own boat and dove about 7 of the upper reefs, very sad what has happened over the last 40 or so years.
Make sure you go south of Tavinier, just got back from a week in key largo (upper keys) the reef there are DEAD! Just alot of reef rubble laying where the reefs used to be. I grew up in miami and have been diving the reefs in the keys for 45 years and have never seen it so bad. If they don't stop big sugar in the everglades the death of the reefs in florida will spread south over time. The dive boats out of the upper keys are still taking tourists out and they dive on the reefs, but it is just soft corals and sea fans, which,look nice, but there are NO hard corals left. We had our own boat and dove about 7 of the upper reefs, very sad what has happened over the last 40 or so years.
parothead22
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Thanks for the advice...Yeah, amazing and scarry at the same time what has happened to the reefs of our world and how decimated they have become!
