Shipwreck diving for treasure is specialized and takes divers back to a past. Each wreck has its own history waiting to be explored.
Recreational diving or sport diving is a type of diving that uses SCUBA equipment for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment.
Standard dive equipment and suba skills is all that is needed to dive shipwrecks for the MOST PART.
The reefs in the Florida Keys is a grave yard to the majority of the 1733 Spanish fleet sunk by a hurricane. Most of these shallow wrecks have been slavaged but you can still hunt for ballast stone and maybe uncover a treasue that was left behind.
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The most famous ship wreck the Nuestra Senora de Atocha sunk in 1622 by a hurricane, uncovered the largest treasure of gold and silver salvaged.
Dive operations through out the Keys offer dive expeditions to a number of these treasure ships. You can also plan your own treasure hunt with a chart of all the marked shipwrecks discovered.
