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Why Register

This is about YOU being able to get the special Package Deals SFDJ has negotiated with the best area Hotels..to enjoy the Best Dive Resort experience possible. possible.

Examples of the benefits of logging in:

1. Much lower prices when reserving hotel rooms for divers with SFDJ log-in ID
2. All perks we are currently offering will be immediately offered to you, such as:
- a. Any "special" boat or hotel deals
- b. Better fill discounts for air, Nitrox or trimix
- Shuttle Van availability which is most likely when we have a large number of SFDJ registered Hotel guests in a given week.
- d. High likelihood of getting you diving with other divers with exactly the same diving interest you have ****Should be the most important perk..see Specific Interest Dive Group article
- e. Planning tools and Groups Calendar system to help you find the best times to find what you want on a Palm Beach Dive Trip
3. If you are a Scubaboard member, we can alert you when there are several other Scubaboard members in town diving during your trip here
5. Opportunity to be notified and involved in Free Gear Demos, free DIR Dive Experience and Training demos
6. Help us create a larger lobby for Palm Beach Diving which we can leverage with County Tourism to push for better State and local protections for the Palm Beach Reef system.

Beyond being an Underwater Adventure Magazine, SFDJ is the collaborative infrastructure of the best Dive Operators and best Hotels for diving in Palm Beach county Florida..SFDJ is the system the hotels and boats are using to connect with traveling and local divers, and if you don't login each time you visit, the boats and hotels won't be able to offer you the best deals and ideas we have come up with.

Diving the Off-shore Ledges will get you into our bigger adventures.
This is where Palm Beach divers go for bigger fish potential, deeper diving, and far more variability in what they might see, based on the reef location.

The reefs in Boynton Beach will have an offshore side quite different from DelRay Beach or from Breakers Reef. Juno and Jupiter will have very different offshore ledges, with "sometimes" radically more advanced deep diving requirements-- some gear based, some SAC rate based, some training and experience based.

In this relatively shallow offshore ledge environment (shallow when compared to some of the more northern reefs as you reach Singer Island and Juno Beach), divers can experience the Offshore side with depths still allowing reasonably long bottom times with nitrox mixes.

........There are a few structurally fantastic differences in the offshore side ledges....One of the great examples of the difference potentials, are the "Finger Structures" of Boynton Beach.

In this area, the wall of the off-shore ledge has a long series of large finger like protrusions. These protrusions, or fingers, can extend outward as far as 75 or more feet, and between the fingers, is a canyon-like void typically with a narrow bed of sand at the v-shaped bottoms. The sides of the finger protrusions often have large undercut ledges or caves, and in these you can find life as large as Goliath Groupers, or as small as nudibranchs. These are areas of the reef where you really will enjoy using a good dive light.