The boat, nearing completion at St. Johns Ship Building, features a flat deck, ample aisles, convenient access and inch-thick windows on the spring-fed waters.

A glass-bottom boat is surrounded with kayaks at Silver Springs. Jeff Brown, 34, is a fitter, who cuts and bends aluminum. “I used to go to Silver Springs on field trips for school.” ...

Well, if it's a glass-bottom boat at Silver Springs Nature Theme Park, it's full of people having fun, and crowds are likely to build as the attraction transitions into state park management.

Visitors to Silver Springs can opt to board the glass-bottom boats for a 25-minute cruise of the river. While gliding over the crystal-clear surface, people who have never scuba dived or snorkeled ...

OCALA — While visiting a glass bottom boat display at the Silver River Museum complex recently, Darrell and Jim Buchanan looked through old photos and reminisced about a time, when, as ...

Money collected from the specialty license plate for the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida is going to help buy Silver Springs State Park’s first wheelchair-accessible glass bottom boat. The ...

Silver Springs acquired its glass-bottom boats around the turn of the 20th century. In 1909, C. "Ed" Carmichael installed cushioned seats and canopies. The early gasoline engines were converted to ...

Florida’s 150 years of treating tourists to gushing springs, lolling manatees, curious fish and emerald grasses undulating in invisible currents is about to take a turn because of a chance remark.

A glass-bottom boat is surrounded with kayaks at Silver Springs. Jeff Brown, 34, is a fitter, who cuts and bends aluminum. “I used to go to Silver Springs on field trips for school.” ...

The glass-bottom boat tours have been a staple at Silver Springs since the 1870s. Miller says the rest of the fleet has been around since the mid-1960s, before people were thinking about handicap ...

Florida's 150 years of treating tourists to gushing springs, lolling manatees, curious fish and emerald grasses undulating in invisible currents is about to take a turn because of a chance remark.

A new glass-bottom boat for the Silver Springs attraction is being built at St. John’s Shipbuilding in Palatka, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.