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Continued from the United States dive sites guide, which covers regions, seasonality, and planning details.
Florida · 0.5–2.4 m
Juniper Springs is a historic CCC-era swimming spring in the Ocala National Forest, with a stone millhouse and a famous 7-mile paddling run. It is a swim/snorkel site only: scuba diving is prohibited (Alexander Springs is the only spring in the forest where diving is allowed) and the pool reaches only about 8 ft deep.
Florida · Up to 30.5 m
Artificial reef built from 35' X 10 'X 11' Steel Sailboat
Wisconsin · Up to 16.8 m
The three-masted schooner Kate Kelly sank in a violent spring storm on May 13, 1895, while carrying hemlock railroad ties from Alpena to Chicago. The wreck lies broken and scattered in 55 ft of water about two miles off Wind Point near Racine, marked by a seasonal WHS mooring buoy. A popular sport-diver site served by local charters and documented with a high-resolution 3D photogrammetry model.
Texas · Up to 14.9 m
Kate's Reef is a dive site in United States. Maximum depth is around 15 m. The site is reached by boat.
Hawaii · Up to 37.2 m
Keawakapu Artificial Reef, Maui - Corner B is a dive site located in United States. Maximum depth is around 37 m. The site is reached by boat. Rated advanced based on available data.
Hawaii · Up to 26.8 m
Keawakapu Artificial Reef, Maui - Corner C is a dive site located in United States. Depths run to roughly 27 m. The site is reached by boat. Rated intermediate based on available data.
Maryland · 9–14 m
Kelly's Reef (the Little Gull site) is a 467-acre Maryland artificial reef about 3 nautical miles southeast of the Ocean City Inlet. Reef materials include concrete rubble, prefabricated concrete units and a sunken barge in roughly 30-45 ft of water. Its short run from the inlet makes it a convenient shallow reef dive and spearfishing spot for sea bass, tautog and flounder.
Florida · Up to 21.3 m
Artificial reef built from 132' X 32' X 10' Steel Freighter, the "Tracy"
Maine · 1.5–7.6 m
A sheltered cove adjoining Crescent Beach State Park in Cape Elizabeth with free parking, toilets and a boardwalk to an easy sand-beach entry, making it a beginner favorite and frequent class site. Eelgrass beds give way to ledges and crevices, with the best route crossing into the next cove to the left; depths stay shallow (roughly 25 feet). As state land, park diving rules apply: carry your C-card, display the free permit, and no solo diving.
Washington · 3–18.3 m
Washington's other underwater state park, along the rock jetty protecting Keystone Harbor at Fort Casey State Park on Whidbey Island, next to the Coupeville-Port Townsend ferry landing. The jetty boulders are plastered with anemones and nudibranchs and shelter wolf eels, octopus and big lingcod, with about 55-60 ft of depth at the jetty tip. Admiralty Inlet currents sweep the site hard, so it is strictly a slack-water dive planned with Admiralty Head current predictions, and divers must never round the jetty into the active ferry lane.
South Carolina · Up to 13.1 m
Artificial reef built from Cooper River Bridge Rubble
Rhode Island · 6.1–12.2 m
A quiet shore dive off Ocean Avenue in Newport, about a quarter mile from Brenton Point, entered down an old concrete boat ramp from a free dirt parking lot. Average depth is around 20 feet with areas to about 40 feet over eelgrass, kelp and rock, with abundant flounder, crabs and seasonal fish; current runs parallel to shore with the tide. A relaxed, uncrowded alternative to Fort Wetherill that is frequently used by classes on weekends.
New York · 4.9–7.6 m
Kismet Reef is a small 10-acre NYSDEC artificial reef in Great South Bay, just north of the South Beach between Kismet and the National Seashore dock, in 16-25 ft of water. Built from barges, concrete barriers, blocks, slabs, culvert and rubble, it is a sheltered, shallow bay reef good for newer divers. Visibility is limited and tide-dependent; black sea bass, tautog, scup and flounder use the structure.
Hawaii · Up to 35.4 m
Kualoa Artificial Reef - Corner A is a dive site located in United States. Depths run to roughly 35 m. The site is reached by boat. Rated advanced based on available data.
Hawaii · Up to 33.5 m
Kualoa Artificial Reef - Corner C is a dive site in United States. Maximum depth is around 34 m. The site is reached by boat.
Hawaii · Up to 27.4 m
A dive site in United States. The site reaches a maximum depth of about 27 m. The site is reached by boat. Rated intermediate based on available data.
California · 3–18.3 m
San Diego's classic easy shore dive inside the San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park, where a protected entry leads to rocky reef, eelgrass, and kelp in roughly 10-45 feet of water. Sea lions, garibaldi, kelp bass, lobster, rays, and occasional giant sea bass make it one of the most reliable marine-life dives in San Diego.
California · 7.6–22.9 m
The most popular beach dive in San Diego, where an easy sand entry leads to the rim of the La Jolla submarine canyon. The main wall at Vallecitos Point lies in about 60-70 feet, with deeper sections descending in terraces past 130 feet and beyond recreational limits. Coordinates estimated for the canyon wall just offshore of the named entry point.
Florida · Up to 39.6 m
Artificial reef built from Steel seahorse cutouts mounted on bow, and treasure chest mounted to super-structure of Lady Lucky
New Hampshire · 4.6–9.1 m
A 125-foot wooden sidewheel steamer built in 1848-49 that sank in 1895 while under tow to be scuttled, settling upright in about 30 feet of water in Smith Cove (Glendale Cove), Gilford, in front of the NH Marine Patrol headquarters. The hull remains largely intact and is the most popular wreck dive in Lake Winnipesaukee, typically reached by a short boat run or kayak; small dive boats can tie directly to the wreck.
Idaho · 6–29.3 m
The most-dived lake in northern Idaho, home to several purpose-sunk and natural wrecks plus shore-accessible dives. Independence Point, a beach next to a downtown resort, provides shore access to multiple wrecks, while charters reach deeper sites such as the excursion cruiser Seeweewana, sunk at 96 feet as a dive attraction in 1988, and the steamboats Spokane and Harrison. Early-1900s silver and copper mining left heavy metals that make the water exceptionally dark, and thousands of kokanee salmon spawn at nearby Higgins Point in late fall.
Kentucky · Up to 27.4 m
A 101-mile-long Corps of Engineers reservoir formed by Wolf Creek Dam in 1950, regarded by the Bluegrass Dive Club as one of Kentucky's best diving areas. Visibility runs 10-30 ft over rock bluffs, sunken boats and abundant game fish, with a pronounced thermocline around 35 ft. Most diving is staged from Burnside near Somerset, where the Diver's Den shop supports lake divers.