Reef Notes
Updated 07/23/08
Check with a local dive shop for recent reports of the offshore conditions.
Atlantic
Scuba
Daytona Beach
386 253
7558
Discover Diving Port
Orange
386 760
3483
Sea Dogs
New Smyrna Beach 386
424
1644
Spruce Creek Scuba Port Orange
386 767
1727
Check the
surface temperature offshore click here then select NE
Florida and Java or HTML.
East of Cape Canaveral near the Gulf Stream
40 NM ENE offshore St.Augustine
To select a possible survey site, click Surveys Needed Click, Survey Form to print out or download the team survey form. The survey form is editable using MS Word. A sample Summary Sheet is also available on that page.If you are doing a training survey, detailed instructions for using the team form are also available on the Survey Forms web page.
The following links offer additional local marine weather information:
http://www.oceanviewcam.com
is a view of
the surf at New Smyrna Beach
http://www.marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/sat_
shows local surface water temperatures along the
east coast of Florida
http://www.oceanweather.com/ shows
current surface wind offshore of Florida.
http://wx.erau.edu/wxkiosk/ shows
current and future weather fronts.
Gray's Reef in Georgia.
has information about local marine life and
geology. The life and geology of Gray's Reef are similar to the
reefs offshore of Daytona Beach.
For the latest
Florida fishing and sportsman
lobster regulations link to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Marine
Fisheries web
pages. A reminder that goliath grouper (jewfish)
and nassau grouper are a protected species and are not to taken.
These pages also contain information about mercury which may be
in some species of Florida fish
For recent updates of the April 2000 "Artificial Reef Locations"folder,go to Artificial Reef Locations, updates on this web site.
There is now a hyperbaric chamber at Ormond Beach Hospital. Call 386 676 6476
http://www.scuba-doc.com contains a list of hyperbaric chambers in Florida. Under Dive Safety, select Facilities , then Florida. Also check the other web links on that site for other medical information of interest to divers.
The Volusia County Reef Team survey form is designed so that
fish identification and count data can be transferred to a Reef
Environmental Education Foundation.
Any diver,who can identify local fish, can submit a REEF survey
for a local reef. The survey forms can be submitted to REEF
on-line. When you submit a report, your fish count information
may be added to REEF's worldwide database. This data base can be
viewed on http://www.reef.org. The fish count
data for the central east coast of Florida is posted under zone
3101.
To submit a survey to REEF on-line, access the REEF on line data entry program, go to http://www.reef.org/dataentry To determine the eight digit zone code for the site you visited, go to http://www.reef.org/data/twazonelist1.shtml and scroll down to zone 3101xxxx to check if the site you visited is listed.If the site is not listed, email REEF as directed.
