Key West Scuba Diving the Middle Florida Keys Middle Reef.

Here you will find a series of reefs with most of them no deeper than
25 feet. Coffin's Patch makes a great 2nd dive after a deep one. First
you have the Donut. You follow the limestone ledges around the middle
section. Explore the Stony, and Brain corals with all their fish hiding in
them. Second the Stake an area of eroded tunneled limestone with Fire
Coral ledges. Just to the west you have large Brain coral clusters. Third
is the Pillar Patch just a little bit smaller than a football field with huge
towers of pillar coral reaching for the surface. Pillar Coral is one of the
few corals that feed during the day. This gives divers the opportunity to
view these tiny coral animals. Photographers will get some great shoots
here. The corals that has been knocked down by storms in the past grows
from the pieces sending new shoots reaching toward the surface. This
makes for some interesting photos. Just off Grassy Key and east of Coffin
Patch you find a series of ledges. The average depth is 25 feet. From the
surfaces the bottom seems alive with all the fish moving around.