do people really dive in Florida?

[MN.Manatee]

:'( - For the second time my husband and I went thru the usually trouble of saving money, making plans, booking flights/hotel/car/diving and for the second (and last time) we were blown out. We went to Ft Lauderdale to go diving, see online friends and go to OceanFest. At our age we figure we only have so many diving years left and only so much money to spend on such things. 2 out of those few years were wasted on blow outs. We had taken out trip insurance but that only works if you cancel before hand or have something catastrophic occur during the trip. Our dive shops didn't bother to inform us either time of weather conditions and what you can get off the news or online weather reports are generally only part of the info you really need. Both times the local swore that things like this just don't happen at that time of year at that location (so I guess the gods just have it in for us). We wont be wasting our money going to Fl again.