08/28/2026
NEW SEADEPTH CHART RELEASE — FLORIDA EAST COAST
WEST PALM BEACH, FL → KINGS BAY, GA
I’m excited to finally release the new SeaDepth Florida East Coast Chart, covering approximately 25,000 square miles of Atlantic bottom from West Palm Beach, Florida, north through Kings Bay, Georgia.
While SeaDepth originally grew out of my frustration with the bathymetry available for daytime swordfishing, this chart was built for a lot more than just sword fishermen.
Whether you’re bottom fishing, deep dropping, swordfishing, trolling edges, looking for new structure, or simply trying to better understand the bottom you already fish, the goal is to give you another perspective of what is actually happening underneath the boat.
DETAILED DEPTH CONTOURS
Throughout the region, SeaDepth provides:
• 1' contour intervals from the beach to 500'
• 10' contour intervals from 500' to 2,500'
• 80' contour intervals from 2,500' to the abyss
Rather than relying solely on shaded relief, I wanted fishermen to be able to read the actual depths and better understand how a ledge falls, which direction a finger runs, where a depression bottoms out, how quickly a slope changes, and how one piece of structure relates to the surrounding bottom.
WEST PALM BEACH TO KINGS BAY
This is a BIG chart with detailed coverage of offshore bottom from Palm Beach and Jupiter all the way through Fort Pierce, Sebastian, Cape Canaveral, Daytona, St. Augustine, Jacksonville and north to Kings Bay, Georgia.
Some of the well-known areas and features covered include:
• Juno Ledges
• Jupiter Fingers
• Fort Pierce Sword Grounds
• Oculina Banks
• Sebastian offshore grounds
• Cape Canaveral Sword Grounds
• The Steeples
• Party Grounds
• Horseshoe Ledge
• Jacksonville Sword Grounds
• And a tremendous amount of bottom in between
SIX HIGH-DETAIL BANK ZOOM CHARTS
One of the biggest additions to this region is six separate high-detail Bank Zoom charts built to provide an even closer look at selected areas.
Three of those Bank Zooms focus specifically on the deepwater grounds off:
FORT PIERCE
CAPE CANAVERAL
JACKSONVILLE
These bank zoom charts let you get much more detailed with the offshore terrain and were developed with daytime swordfishing in mind—particularly the fingers, depressions, holes, slopes, breaks and subtle changes in bottom that can be difficult to fully understand on a conventional chart.
When you’re dropping a bait 1,500', 1,800' or 2,000'+, even a relatively subtle feature can become interesting.
Instead of simply seeing a shaded area and knowing that the bottom changes somewhere underneath you, the idea is to help you understand where that change begins, how steep it is, which direction it runs, what is immediately around it, and exactly where you want to position the boat for the drop.
The other Bank Zooms provide the same concept for selected shallower areas where detailed structure can be valuable for bottom fishing and deep dropping.
BOTTOM COMPOSITION
Another feature I’m particularly excited about is the bottom-composition overlay.
This adds another layer of information for evaluating transitions between sand and mud and seeing how those transitions relate to nearby contours and structure.
For swordfishing, I'm particularly interested in how those transitions relate to fingers, depressions, slopes and other deepwater features.
For deep dropping and bottom fishing, it's simply another piece of information to consider when trying to understand why one section of bottom may fish differently than another.
WHY I BUILT SEADEPTH
SeaDepth originally started because of daytime swordfishing.
I was frustrated with the lack of detailed bathymetry available for really understanding what was happening on the bottom in 1,200'–2,000'+ of water.
When you’re dropping a bait that far, I wanted more than a pretty shaded picture. I wanted to understand exactly what the bottom was doing underneath the boat.
But as SeaDepth developed, it became pretty obvious that the same information could be useful well beyond swordfishing.
For a sword fisherman, it might help decide where to put the first bait down.
For a deep-drop or bottom fisherman, it might reveal a small break, ledge, depression or secondary feature away from the obvious structure everyone else fishes.
And for someone who simply enjoys exploring offshore, it might help identify something you've driven over 100 times without realizing what was actually down there.
SeaDepth isn't intended to tell anyone where the fish are.
It's about giving fishermen another perspective of the bottom and letting them decide how to use that information.
We've been getting some really encouraging feedback from fishermen using SeaDepth in the Gulf and our other regions, and I'm excited to finally bring the same concept to the Florida East Coast and Northeast Florida.
I've put a lot of work into this one, particularly the Fort Pierce, Cape Canaveral and Jacksonville Bank Zooms, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what fishermen who know these areas find with them.
25,000 square miles of Atlantic bottom.
West Palm Beach to Kings Bay.
1' contours to 500'.
10' contours from 500'–2,500'.
Six high-detail Bank Zoom charts.
Dedicated Bank Zooms for Fort Pierce, Cape Canaveral & Jacksonville.
Bottom-composition data.
Know the bottom. Fish it better.
SeaDepth Charts
Download the SeaDepth App
Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seadepth/id6747972372
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seadepth
