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Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary
Texas, United States
Max depth80.5 m
LevelEstimated: Advanced and up
Water bodyGulf of Mexico
Water temp21–30°C
Estimated from climate dataMay–Aug
About this site
Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary is a reef dive site, United States, in the Gulf of Mexico. It has a maximum depth of about 80 m. Marine life recorded within about 5 km (OBIS/GBIF) includes sea fans, groupers, barracuda, jacks, moray eels. Typical surface water temperature ranges from about 21 to 30 °C over the year.
Conditions by month
BestGoodMixedOctoberGood
Generally good diving.
Marine life
Recorded nearby
Blue TangAcanthurus coeruleus
Spanish HogfishBodianus rufus
Queen ParrotfishScarus vetula
Stoplight ParrotfishSparisoma viride
Reef ButterflyfishChaetodon sedentarius
Princess ParrotfishScarus taeniopterus
Great BarracudaSphyraena barracuda
Redband ParrotfishSparisoma aurofrenatum
Nearby sites
- 1West Flower Garden Bank2.0 km
- 2East Flower Garden Bank21 km
- 3East Flower Garden Stairway22 km
- 4Rankin Bank32 km
- 5Geyer Bank39 km
- 6McGrail Bank50 km
Straight-line distances.
Sources: Species occurrences: OBIS (CC BY 4.0), GBIF.org