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Biscayne Reef Shelf — The Best Diving Within an Hour of Downtown Miami
Forget the Keys for a minute. The reef shelf off Biscayne Bay holds 30-50ft visibility three weeks of every month, parking is free, and you can be back at your desk by 2 PM.
Devil's Den — Diving a Prehistoric Submerged Cave That Sits in a Pasture
It looks like a hole in a Williston cow pasture. You climb down into it on a wooden staircase. At the bottom is a 72°F freshwater dome that's been collecting fossils for ten thousand years. It is one of the strangest dive sites in the United States.
Ichetucknee Springs in Winter — When the Tubing Crowd Leaves and the Springs Open Up
From November to April the tube concession is closed and the river belongs to paddlers, divers, and exactly one manatee herd. The Blue Hole alone is reason enough to drive here from anywhere.
Madison Blue Spring — The Panhandle's Hidden First-Magnitude Cathedral
Two hours west of Gainesville, a perfectly circular 90ft limestone bowl pumps 64 million gallons a day of 70°F gin-clear water into the Withlacoochee. No cap, no crowd, no cell signal. The least-known first-magnitude spring in Florida.