Caloosa Dive Club -- Scuba Diving in Southwest Florida

         

   

 
Florida Gulf Coast - Edison Reef
 
Edison Reef is often overlooked as a good dive site and that's good for those of us who like to spend a little time there.  Edison is actually a big area with piles of rubble from the old Edison Bridge that once crossed the Caloosahatchee into Fort Myers.  Some sections are only a few feet high and others are fairly large and include sections of the roadway structure from the bridge. 
 
Since Edison is only 12-15 miles out from Sanibel, it is often adversely affected by the flow of fresh water from the river and the volume of heavy rain during the rainy season but if you catch the tide just right, it can be a fantastic dive.  We have been fortunate enough to see turtles gliding along the rubble, seemingly unworried about the presence of divers and there are hundreds of different fish hiding in the nooks, crannies and swim through areas of the structure.
 
The photos shown here were taken by Gary Wood on a late June dive at Edison Reef.
 

Cherri checks out the scenery A Lizard Fish thinks we can't see it!
This is a good spot to find Butterfly Fish A busy intersection on the bridge

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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