Diving in Key Largo Florida Keys

Scuba Diving in Key LargoKey Largo, the northernmost island of the Florida Keys island chain, lies only an hour's drive from South Florida's two major airports. Yet it is a world away.

Key Largo is sandwiched between the watery wilderness of the Everglades National Park to the west and the fish-covered coral formations of North America's only living coral barrier reef to the east. Key Largo has had a long history of marine conservation.

Scuba Diving in Key LargoBeginning in 1960 with the creation of the nation's first undersea preserve, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, and then with the designation of the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary in 1975, Key Largo has been protected from spearfishing and coral collection for four decades.

Now, as an integral portion of the 2,800-square-nautical-mile Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Key Largo features six unique Sanctuary Preservation Areas (SPA's) where even hook and line fishing is prohibited. Nowhere on earth has more friendly fish than Key Largo, creating an absolute paradise for underwater photographers!

The Dive-Center.org Team