Flower Garden Banks Scuba Diving
Our two and three day sport trips will provide you with excellent dive opportunities in one of the world's most pristene coral reefs.
Flower garden banks scuba diving. The flower garden banks nms is one of 14 federally designated underwater areas protected by noaa’s national marine sanctuary program. The water was a stunning deep sapphire blue on the surface and crystal clear high visibility below. 2021 flower gardens & stetson banks dates!
Visit by boat you can visit the flower garden banks by boat by leaving from the coast near galveston. The balance due will be collected two days before the trip. The mv fling is one of the most professionally operated dive charters in the world and services the flower garden banks from their headquarters in freeport, texas.
Come experience the flower garden banks aboard the m/v fling. This is a 2 or 3 day trip where you experience amazing coral reefs up to 110 miles offshore in the gulf of mexico. East flower garden bank (texas flower gardens) is a boat accessible salt water dive site, located in freeport, tx.
With no natural predators, lionfish would be unstoppable without human intervention. In 1992 the two larger reefs, the east flower garden and the west flower garden were designated national marine sanctuaries, and the third, the stenton bank in 1996. 2 dives on the west flower garden bank, 3 dives on the east for day one 5 dives at stetson for day two 2 dives on the kraken wreck the morning of day 3 average depths around 80' for most dives and total run of around 40 minutes each.
This dive site has an average rating of 3.96 out of 5 from 27 scuba divers. The flower garden banks national marine sanctuary is a u.s. The fling crew makes sure you are well fed before and after every dive.
The official flower garden banks website 3 states there are several commercial dive and fishing charter operators that take people out to the sanctuary and surrounding oil and gas platforms. In a mission to collect data on the spiny sea creatures, the flower garden banks national marine sanctuary (fgbnms) off galveston, texas, opened the lionfish invitational cruise this summer: The flower garden banks actually comprise three separate regions: