Diving in Flower Garden Banks

Flower Garden Banks sits in the Gulf of Mexico, roughly a hundred miles offshore from Freeport and Galveston, Texas. These salt-dome reefs are the northernmost coral reefs on the North American continental shelf, and that distinction shapes everything about diving here. The six sites in our database range from shallow reef caps to deep pinnacles and a freighter wreck, covering depths from a few metres down to over sixty. All access is by boat or liveaboard, and conditions suit intermediate to advanced divers. Visibility is consistently good, and the warm summer months bring whale shark sightings, while gorgonians, nurse sharks, goliath grouper, and sea turtles are recorded across the sanctuary year-round.