Come dive with us in warm, clear, blue water right in our own back yard, just off the coast of Freeport, TX! Earn your advanced open water certification, deep diver certification, enriched air Nitrox or dive for fun led by one our experienced instructors. You simply won’t find a better place to gain experience or earn certifications and you won’t find better pricing than when you bundle your training with this 3 day trip.
$940—3 day trips (same price as 2 day weekend) departing late Sunday evenings 6/29 7/13 9/28
Includes all dives with Nitrox (if certified), food & drinks, and your 3 night stay on board the MV M-V Fling by Texas Caribbean Charters. Book through us and bundle Advanced Open Water or Deep Diver certification for only 149.99 each normally 399 each or Nitrox for 99 normally 249.
Not included—Instructor and Crew gratuities and any rental gear other than the tanks provided on board the Fling. Rent from us and we will deliver your gear to the boat, rinse/dry and return gear after trip. Contact for pricing and to book. Only a few spots remain for 6/29 departure.
When you think of great, blue-water diving, you might not immediately think of Texas. But there's one special place off the Texas Coast that really is a life-list dive site: The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. But that's not all. The "vertical reefs" in the Gulf of America offer an additional and completely different dive experience. And all of this is waiting for you in deep, indigo waters!
The Flower Garden banks consist of two salt domes, pressed upward by geological forces to within 60 feet of the surface. The upper parts of these are covered by some of the healthiest coral reefs anywhere. How does it happen that healthy reefs live in a place nobody knows about? Well, they're isolated from the pressures of human development by 110 miles of open ocean.
That's where the M-V Fling comes into the picture. We depart two or three times each week carrying divers on 2-, or 3-day excursions to world-class ocean diving. The reefs are stunning, and seem to go on and on forever. There are steep walls and valleys in the natural relief of the banks. Deeper (beyond the reach of sport divers) there are brine volcanos, and rivers of super-saline discharges that run down the dome and occasionally pool eerily in basins. It's a unique place for sure!
Flower Garden Tours
We carry divers from Freeport, TX on a tour of this place. We depart in the evening and motor overnight to the West Flower Garden Bank, where divers most often see mantas. The West Flower Garden Bank is the most reliable manta sighting in the United States.
Extended Flower Garden Tour
Our 3-day extended Flower Garden Tour adds a full day in the middle of the regular tour. Two additional dives in the morning at the East Bank usually on the spectacular east-facing wall as the sun comes up over the deep water. And in the evening, there's two additional dives at Stetson Bank, including the famous night dive there.
This extended tour includes all three of the dives that people tell us are the best! The wall at the East Bank, the oil platform, and the night dive at Stetson Bank. This trip has the best of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
Extended Flower Garden Bank Tour
3-Days
11 Dives (weather permitting)
Contact us to get booked now! 940-367-6534 or message us
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