Key Largo, Florida, USA
Molasses Reef
One of the most-dived reefs in the Florida Keys, easy and full of fish.
About the dive
Molasses Reef is a beginner-friendly dive site in Key Largo, Florida, USA. It is a reef dive. Divers have logged 10,583 dives here, going to 11 m on average in around 16 m of visibility. 29 species are recorded here month by month; the most sighted are nurse shark, parrotfish and barracudas. Sightings peak in June, July and November.
- Level
- Beginner
- Entry
- Boat
- Avg. max depth
- 11 m
- Visibility
- 16 m
- Dive time
- 46 min
- Logged dives
- 10,583
- Busiest months
- Jun · Jul · Nov
- Region
- Floridian
Most sighted here
Nurse shark
ParrotfishPhoto: Jeffry Surianto · CC0
BarracudasPhoto: Wouter Naert · CC0
AngelfishPhoto: Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY
What you’ll see, month by month
The most-sighted species at Molasses Reef and the months they are logged. The brighter the cell, the more sightings.
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse shark | ||||||||||||
| Parrotfish | ||||||||||||
| Barracudas | ||||||||||||
| Angelfish | ||||||||||||
| Moray eels | ||||||||||||
| Stingrays | ||||||||||||
| Loggerhead Turtle | ||||||||||||
| Butterflyfish | ||||||||||||
| Groupers | ||||||||||||
| Pufferfish | ||||||||||||
| Trumpetfish | ||||||||||||
| Snappers | ||||||||||||
| Grunts | ||||||||||||
| Oceanic Blacktip Shark | ||||||||||||
| Damselfish | ||||||||||||
| Surgeonfish |
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