Guided Scuba Drift Dive at Blue Spring State Park

Join other certified divers for a guided, shore-based drift dive through Blue Spring’s natural run. Your guide leads the group and helps with site orientation, while you manage your own dive plan—this is a shared dive for self-sufficient divers, not an instructional session.

• Enjoy guaranteed park entry and diver access, even when the park reaches capacity
• Prepare with a briefing on site safety, conditions, and wildlife protection

Itinerary

Your adventure begins with a scenic walk down the park’s beautiful boardwalk, where you’ll be guided to our private diver staging area equipped with benches and plenty of space to gear up. Just steps from the spring’s edge, this area offers an a staging area for our guests to gear up.

Once in the water, you’ll follow our experienced dive leader downstream on a relaxed shore-based drift dive. Blue Spring’s consistent 72°F / 22°C temperatures and excellent visibility make it a diver’s paradise year-round. Along the way, keep an eye out for native freshwater species such as:

Catfish, Bass, Brim, and Longnose Gar, Turtles and Florida Manatees (wildlife sightings not guaranteed)

What's Included

• One aluminum 80-cubic-foot air tank

Important details

• Active scuba certification is required. Inactive divers need a refresher course to participate in this group tour.
• Independent swimming, comfort diving in a group, and self-sufficient dive planning are required. This activity can be physically demanding; you are responsible for managing your air supply, depth, buoyancy, navigation, and dive time within your training limits.
• Bring proof of certification and your last dive to check-in. A physical or digital certification card is required.
• Present your booking confirmation, digital or printed, and a driver's license or government-issued ID matching the reservation name at the park entrance.
• Park admission is not included in the listed price and is charged separately on arrival: $6 per vehicle with two to eight people, $4 per single-occupant vehicle, or $2 for pedestrians, bicyclists, extra passengers, and passengers traveling with an Annual Individual Entrance Pass holder. Park fees are subject to change.
• A complete set of maintained, functioning scuba equipment is required. If bringing your own gear, include a buoyancy compensator, regulator with an alternate second stage, dive computer or timing device and depth gauge, pressure gauge, scuba mask, fins, snorkel, dive boots, dive light, and weights. Horse-collar buoyancy compensators are not permitted.
• Only recreational diving with a single back-mounted tank is permitted. Cave, cavern, and other overhead diving are excluded. Sidemount equipment, closed-circuit rebreathers, twin tanks, cutting devices, dive floats, dive flags, reels, and surface marker buoys are prohibited.
• Stay with the group, follow the guide's directions, listen to the safety briefing, and exit at the designated take-out location. Unsafe or uncooperative behavior may end your participation.
• Do not approach, touch, chase, feed, harass, or block manatees. Leave wildlife, fossils, rocks, artifacts, plants, and natural formations undisturbed. Do not climb or stand on embankments or spring walls, carve natural surfaces, or use metal detectors.
• Drugs, alcohol, weapons, hunting tools, spearguns, collection devices, and fishing equipment are prohibited. Intoxication or possession of prohibited items will result in removal.
• Check in at least 30 minutes before departure. Late arrival may result in denied access or reduced time with your guide.
• Allow at least 12 hours before flying after a single dive, or 18 hours after multiple dives, as recommended by Divers Alert Network.