Dive Key Largo Safety Inspected Boats
Dive Key Largo safety inspected boats when visiting the Florida Keys.
Safety inspected and certified dive boats provide comfort and safety for all guests.
USCG Inspected dive boats must meet very strict safety standards.
USCG Annual Inspections
Dive shops who want to take more than 6 paying guests on their boat must comply with various safety inspections.
Every 2 years these boats need to be dry docked for the hull inspections.
A hull inspection checks for any damage to the boat below the water line.
When blistering of the fiberglass is found the boat owner must make repairs.
Why select A USCG Safety Inspected Boat
It is important to pick a dive shop with a USCG safety inspected boat.
https://www.undercurrent.org/UCnow/dive_magazine/2012/DiverDies201201.html
For many a worst nightmare would be to be trapped inside a sinking dive boat.
December 18, 2012 a diver died while trapped inside the cabin of the boat named Get Wet.
Get Wet was a boat owned by Key Largo Scuba Shack.
Due to a lack of safety inspection, it sank when in choppy seas.
Boats Which Carry More Than Six Guests
Commercial vessels that carry six or fewer passengers are not required to be inspected.
Dive boats that carry more than six must have an annual safety inspection and a haul-out hull inspection every two years.
Key Largo Shops With USCG Inspected Boats
Out of the thirty plus shops to pick from, only a few actually have USCG Safety Inspected boats.
The following dive shops have inspected boats.
Deeper is the name of the USCG safety inspected boat owned by Sail Fish Scuba.
https://www.sailfishscuba.com/
Rainbow Reef
Ocean Divers
Silent World
Horizon Divers
https://www.horizondivers.com/
Island Ventures
https://islandventure.com/