It’s all about Animal Magnetism

We like to go where we can see the cool stuff, and the cool stuff like to be where it is most agreeable to them.

Like a magnet, we are drawn to Palm Beach County’s coastline because it is the place to see the “cool stuff”from strange planktonic creatures (some not bigger than a finger nail) to a listing of marine residents larger than your dive buddy.

Sea Turtles, Goliath Groupers and Sharks oh my! 

The Palm Beach County coast is one of the few places in the world where divers can encounter all five species of sea turtles found in the Atlantic, with loggerheads and hawksbills being the most prevalent. These same waters are also home to the largest species of reef fish in the world, the goliath grouper. In addition to a large resident population of goliaths, every August and September, these huge fish gather in groups of 50 or more among a handful of key sites to spawn. So unique is this annual event, and one of just two locations in the world where aggregations of giant groupers take place, the Palm Beach Coast is quickly earning it’s newest nickname: the “Goliath Coast.”

In addition to sea turtles and goliath groupers, there are the sharks. The Palm Beach Coast becomes a major hang out for large variety of sharks from lemon to reef and bull, the most common to tiger and hammerhead, black-tip, sandbar, silky and dusky.  During the months of January through April the presence of our friend in the grey suits goes up a notch with the annual spinner shark migration all the way down the Palm Beach Coast.

Should you be lucky enough, you might even encounter the largest of them all, the whale shark.

There’s much more to diving than giant groupers, huge turtles, sharks and rays.

Adding to that, the waters of Palm Beach County is perhaps one of the best places to go for encountering genially higher quantities of fish life from huge schools of spadefish, jacks, grunts and porkfish than most anywhere else in the continental U.S. or the Caribbean.

But when it’s all said and done, it’s the big stuff that keeps divers coming back time after time.

So, dive in and discover what there is to see.