Virginia reef, Biscayne National Park is a salt water dive site, located in Homestead, FL. This dive site has an average rating of 4.00 out of 5 from 4 scuba divers. The maximum depth is 26-30ft/8-9m. This dive site provides bathrooms and airfills.
The only dive boat that goes here leaves from Biscayne National Park
As of now (10/28/2013) there is no park concession but some dive boats from Miami come here and to the wall. RayC/LatitudeAdjustment
This is a shallow reef with two large coral heads and a mooring bouy between them and a smaller third coral head off to the side with an I-beam between probably from a navigation marker. The I-beam is up off the sand and a good spot for macro. It’s easy navigation and would be a great night dive if the NPS let the dive concession go out but the park closes at dusk :( This is fishy like the Key’s but without all of the boat traffic :)
Large resident Southern Sting ray, easy dive, lot’s of fish & good coral that I think is in better shape than the Keys, follow a figure 8 pattern around reef back through sand channel to mooring. Look along the I-beam for cleaners.
From my log: Excellent dive, Boat (cat) was Boca Chita, DM was Nestor Morales. (comments about my daughter and 3rd buddy deleted)Could hear shrimp but never saw any. Blue runners hanging high over reef, saw Blue parrotfish with sucker attached, tried to photograph school of barracuda, large Loggerhead turtle swam through spooking them and then flushed out a huge Southern ray, didn’t get a picture of any of them! These reefs at the south end of the park don’t have the pronounced spur and groove (the map shows them in the north end of the park) of the FL keys and all of the Biscayne reefs seemed to have more juveniles than Key Largo.
Info on Key Biscayne Park;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_BiscayneMore Info;
http://www.nps.gov/bisc/index.htm