do people really dive in Florida?

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I went down to the keys for my first time late last December.

One of my friends parents live in the keys, so we stayed at their place and used their boat. We were spending the first half of our trip in the keys, and the second half at Ginnie for some cave diving. Out of 5 days there, we only had one day of diving on Looe Reef. The rest of the time we ended up diving the channel that they use to get to their house from the ocean. The weather was AWESOME on land...but once you got out to the ocean there was zero viz and wicked waves (one day, a boat capsized on some reef and one of the passengers died). On the plus side, we did spend a lot of time gathering crab out of their traps, and then eating them with beer and fresh key limes off of their tree.

They pretty much told us that winter is a terrible time to dive in the keys. They don't really do it much during the winter because the weather was always so unpredictable.