Reef Notes

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Information about the 2012 deposits can be acessed from the Home Page.





Check with the following local dive shops for more recent offshore reports:

Atlantic Scuba Daytona Beach,  386 253 7558
Discover Diving Port Orange, 386 760 3483
Sea Dogs New Smyrna Beach,  386 424 1644
Spruce Creek Scuba Port Orange,386 767 1727

                                             Loran-C signals  are no longer available in our area 

                                  Click  below for offshore wind,wave heights and marine weather :


20 NM offshore Cape Canaveral

East of Cape Canaveral near the Gulf Stream

40 NM ENE offshore St.Augustine

Click here for WUnderground Daytona Beach weather

Click here for the National Hurricane Center 

To select a possible survey site,click Surveys Needed in the left column

For recent updates to the county's "Artificial Reef Locations" folder, Click GPS of Arificial Reefs  in the left column.

Click on Survey Forms in the left column to print out or download a survey form. The.doc survey form on that page is editable using MS Word. A sample Summary Sheet is also available on that page. If you are doing a training survey, detailed instructions for using the team survey form are also available on the Survey Forms web page.

The following links may contain additional local marine information:


For new experimental marine SE weather, click on : SE Marine Weather Portal

http://www.marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/sat shows surface water temperature.

http://www.oceanweather.com/ shows surface wind offshore of Florida.

http://wx.erau.edu/wxkiosk/ shows current and future weather fronts.

Grays Reef in georgia has information about local marine life and geology.

For the  Florida fishing and  lobster regulations click on
 http://www.myfwc.com/rulesandregs/saltwaterulesindex.htm

You can find a current listing of Florida  hyperbolic chambers on the internet
 using Google search.

The Volusia County Reef Team survey form is designed so that fish identification and count data can be manually transferred to the Reef Environmental Education Foundation. Any diver,who can identify local fish, can submit a survey to REEF on-line.When you submit a report, your fish count information may be added to REEF's worldwide database.This data base can be viewed on REEF . The fish count data for the central east coast of Florida is posted under zone 3101.To submit a survey to REEF on-line, access the REEF data entry program, go to http://www.reef.org/dataentry To determine the eight digit zone code for the site you visited, go to http://www.reef.org/data/twazonelist1.shtml and scroll down to zone 3101xxxx to check if the site you visited is listed.If the site is not listed, email REEF as directed.