Devil's Den
An underground spring inside a dry cave, with stalactite rock formations and Pleistocene fossil beds, at 72 °F year round.
- Advanced
- Spring
Advanced≤30 m
Ginnie Springs (Ginnie Ballroom)
Dive site in Florida Springs, United States
Pull up to the Ballroom's welded grate at 50 ft and feel the force of 35 million gallons of spring water a day.
- Usual dive
- 15 m
- Deepest point
- 15 m
- Level
- Advanced
- Season
- All year
- Entry
- From shore
The story
Ginnie Springs has been privately owned by the Wray family since 1971. After a rise in scuba diver deaths, Wray put an iron grate over the most dangerous part of the cave, in the Ginnie Ballroom cavern.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The dive
A spring and cavern dive from the shore.
Who it's for
Advanced≤30 mSource: ginniespringsoutdoors.com
Recommended minimum: Advanced (PADI Advanced Open Water, N2).
- OverheadPart of the dive is under a ceiling, without a direct way up.
Conditions
- Dive type
- Spring, Cavern
- Entry
- From shore
- Estimated
- Environment
- Cavern (daylight visible)
- Water
- Fresh water
Why divers come
- Spring
Season in Florida Springs
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
- Best
- Good
- Possible
- Closed
- Not documented yet
Diveable all year.
Source: ginniespringsoutdoors.comWhere is Florida Springs?
The point shows the Florida Springs area, not the exact dive site.
More dives in Florida Springs
Troy Spring
A 70-ft first-magnitude spring with the remains of the Civil War steamboat Madison, scuttled in 1863, in its shallow run.
- Advanced
- Wreck
Cavern
down to 18 m
Blue Grotto
An open-water basin to 40 ft, a wide-entrance upper cavern and an air bell with viewing windows, plus Virgil the resident turtle.
- Advanced
- Turtles
About this page
Values marked “Estimated” come from our original catalogue and are being checked against published sources one by one. Sourced values link to where they come from. Conditions change with the season, the weather and the tide: confirm with a local dive centre before you dive.
Photo credits
- Devil's Den Spring dive site, Florida, Eric Beach, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Clear water of Troy Spring, Florida, Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
