Little Palm Island Divers
Little Palm Island Divers is an on island PADI Resort Dive Center staffed with experienced professional boat captains and scuba instructors. We provide all the necessary equipment for your snorkeling or diving adventure. All dives are instructor guided for your saftey and enjoyment.
All trips are aboard the Island Girl a 30-foot Coast Guard licensed and inspected dive boat. It is designed for the comfort of both snorkelers and divers.
Looe Key Reef Trips - This trip departs daily, weather permitting, in the morning and afternoon with snorkelers and divers on board the Island Girl. We stop at two different locations for about an hour each before returning to the resort. Looe Key is a protected area within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It is a barrier reef with distinctive spur and groove coral formations and a wide variety of marine life. With depths between 5 and 30 feet, it is one of the best reefs in the Florida Keys.
Discover Scuba Diving - This is an introductory scuba diving experience for those not yet certified. It consists of a short classroom session, learning a few basis skills in the pool and then two dives on the reef with your instructor.
Scuba Review -This is a pool refresher session where we review many of the skills you learned in your certification course. This is for those who want to review their skills in a controlled environment (the pool) prior to diving at the reef. It is required if the diver has not been diving within the past two years. This course includes two dives with your instructor.
The Adolphus Busch Dive - The Adolphus Busch is a 210-foot island freighter intentionally sunk on December 5, 1998 in about 115 feet of water. Combine this dive with a reef dive to see the best we have to offer all in one trip. Enriched Air is available upon request.
Twi-Nite Dive - This dive on Looe Key is offered during the summer months when the sun sets later than 7:30 pm. This is two dives at one location - a twilight dive before sunset and a night dive after sunset. Dive lights are provided.
Certification Courses - PADI Open Water Diver; PADI Advanced Open Water Diver; PADI Enriched Air - These certification courses are offered as home-study programs to minimize the time you need to spend in a classroom while you are on vacation. You must contact us in advance so we can send you the training materials to complete the book work at home. When you arrive, we complete the class work, conduct the pool training (Open Water course only) and complete the required open water training dives.
To save even more vacation time, you can do all your class and pool work at a local PADI dive center and then you only have to complete your training dives with us.
Check with us on the availability of other certification courses in which you may be interested.
For additional information and pricing, please contact our dive instructor at diveshop@littlepalmisland.com or call 305-515-4001.