About Who's Been Here Revisions Eagles Nest Cortez Blvd, Weeki Wachee, FL More Info Max Depth: Over 150ft/46m Entry Type: Shore Bottom Composition: Rock Rating: 4.00 by 1 divers 1/21/2018 9:23 AM LatitudeAdjustment

Eagles Nest is a shore accessible fresh water dive site, located at Cortez Blvd, Weeki Wachee, FL. This dive site has an average rating of 4.00 out of 5 from 1 scuba divers. The maximum depth is over 150ft/46m.

lat. 28°33’17.2" N., long. 82°36’33.2" W

This site is deep (310’) and a very advanced dive. The NACD and NSS-CDS recommends that you have the following MINIMUM qualifications to dive:
Full Cave Certification
Trimix certification
Appropriate experience with deep cave dives





Access to Eagle’s Nest is located off Cortez Blvd, about two miles east of US-19.

1/20/2018 incident is the 12th fatality to happen since 1981, and that’s with the cave was shut down between 1999 and 2003.



YouTube; youtube.com/watch?v=pkrnSwNSSpY

More info; caveatlas.com/systems/system.asp?ID=26

Comments

randomlyon - 5/02/2024 7:08 AM Rating Added: 4 This was a cool but intimidating few dives. We eventually got down to EXACTLY 150’ in the cavern zone at the end of an AN/DP class, going into planned Deco. I used cave filled manifold double LP95s w/ air for back gas, an AL80 EAN34 traveler, and clipped off a 100% oxygen AL40 deco bottle in the beginning. The dives were planned on MultiDeco and I used Shearwater Perdix AI computers to control deco stops. If you don’t have cavern with AN/DP at minimum, with full cave and trimix recommended, don’t dive here. People die in this cave. The deep death sign was on top of the mound was at 128’ when I went.