The Florida Keys at the bottom end of florida, provide island diving that you can drive to. As part of the US, the keys provide all the facilities and services that could be required. The keys are not tropical islands with white sandy beaches, they instead have mangroves fringing the shores. These mangrove beaches are what help build the keys into islands. The keys provide more options for accomodation, including resorts, motels, and camp grounds. The pace of life also tends to slow down the further south in the keys you travel.

Diving in keys is mainly done on the fringing reef, the reef structure that fringes the continental shelf, with some patch reef and artifical reefs closer to shore also offering some diving. The fringing reef is nourished by the currents of the gulf stream, which runs parallel to the keys and the continental shelf, and this continual nourishment provides the fringing reef with a vibrant and wild variety of marine life and colorings.

The Upper Keys boasts the largest under water marine park in the US. It is also home to artifical reefs created by wrecks, including the steamer Tossawanda, the schooner City of Washington, and an old civil war wreck. Also of interest is the 9 foot tall statue of christ, pointing to a giant brain coral, that sits in a sand channel near key largo dry rocks. (here divers come for photo shoots and even some marriage ceremonies have taken place at this underwater shrine)

The Middle Keys offers many wrecks to dive on including the RV Thunderbolt and the HMS Love.

The Lower Keys offers many wrecks to dive on including the Chet Alexanders in 10 meters of water, Joes Tug and the Santa Margaretta.

Typical marine life to be found in the keys includes, flamingo tongue shell, spotted moray, sea turtles, spade fish, baraacuda, parot fish, trump fish, southerm stingrays, and the ocassional great white shark.