outdoor · Leonida Keys
Scuba diving is back. A Rockstar screenshot set in the Leonida Keys shows a protagonist underwater alongside vivid reef life — the most colourful underwater environment any GTA has ever shipped with. The Keys archipelago, modelled on the real Florida Keys, gives the activity a natural home: clear shallows, reef structures, and the kind of wreck-dotted seabed that has anchored GTA underwater exploration since Vice City's Phil Cassidy's docks. Mechanically, scuba diving in GTA V already established the template — air supply meter, harpoon underwater weapon, hidden wreck loot. Expect Rockstar to expand it for VI with proper marine ecosystems, dive-shop unlocks, and underwater photography ties to other systems. The Keys' reefs are likely the central exploration zone, with periodic shark encounters and structured wreck dives offering the bigger payouts. The activity also slots into multi-step heist setups — recovering items from sunken boats or pre-positioning gear underwater is a Rockstar staple. Expect a returning Cayo-Perico-style stealth-from-the-water approach for at least one Leonida Keys job. The ecology layer is where Rockstar will likely innovate. RDR2 already proved the studio can render a believable wildlife ecosystem; underwater Leonida is a chance to do the same for marine biology — schools of grunts, parrotfish on the reef structures, the occasional barracuda or shark cruising the deeper drop-offs. If a wreck-dive economy emerges (sell salvaged artifacts to a Keys-based pawn broker, say) it would mirror the Cayo Perico approach without rehashing it. Either way, the Keys are too geographically central to the map for diving to be a minor activity.
