Snorkeling Venice Beach, Florida

The main attraction for snorkelers at Venice Beach is the shark teeth that can be found underwater. That's fossilized shark teeth. I'm told that the best chance for finding the biggest shark teeth [megalodon teeth] is in about 15-20 feet of water. However, the most popular snorkeling techniques is to look for shark teeth in water about 10 or 20 feet from the beach. There is a small drop off, so you'll be in water about two feet deep in most places.

The water along the Venice coastline is usually murky near the beach, but often clears up quite a bit once you swim out 100 feet or so. The nature of the sand and the slope of the beach causes quite a bit of suspended sediment in the shallow water.

The depth of the water along Venice beach drops off more quickly than it does on northern Siesta, Longboat, or Anna Maria, and the sand is dark with fossilized material--nearly black in some places.