Little River West Bank
Georgia · Up to 6.1 m
Little River West Bank is a dive site in United States. Maximum depth is around 6 m. The site is reached by boat.
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United States Dive Sites — Page 25
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Continued from the United States dive sites guide, which covers regions, seasonality, and planning details.
Lizzie D (Rum Runner)
New York · 18–24.4 m
The wreck of the Lizzie D, a 122-gross-ton tugboat that sank on 19 October 1922 carrying a contraband cargo of Prohibition-era whiskey. The 'Rum Runner' rests upright and largely intact in about 80 feet of water roughly eight miles southeast of Atlantic Beach Inlet. Its moderate depth and proximity to shore make it a popular summer wreck dive; bottles have historically been recovered from the wreck.
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Loch Low-Minn Quarry
Tennessee · 1.5–15 m
A spring-fed 10-acre former quarry near Athens operated as a private scuba diving resort. The clear water holds more than 40 sunken attractions including boats, jet skis, statues and training platforms, and the quarry is famous for its resident paddlefish. A sharp summer thermocline sits around 25-30 ft, with surface temperatures reaching the 80s F.
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Lofthus
Florida · 4.6–6.1 m
The Lofthus, a 222-ft iron-hulled Norwegian barque built in 1868, wrecked off Manalapan in 1898 while carrying lumber from Pensacola to Buenos Aires. The scattered iron hull now lies in 15-20 ft of water about 175 yards offshore, three-quarters of a mile north of Boynton Inlet, and was designated Florida's eighth Underwater Archaeological Preserve in 2004 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sand movement alternately exposes and buries the wreckage, which shelters lobster, grunts, porkfish and rays.
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Lonestar
Texas · Up to 21.9 m
Lonestar Reef (MU-770L) sits about 10 nautical miles off Port Aransas in 72 ft (22 m) of water, where the Texas Parks & Wildlife artificial reef program placed three sunken barges; at 31 acres it is among the program's oldest and smallest sites. It serves mainly as a fishing reef rather than a dive destination, but the structure holds fish typical of Texas nearshore artificial reefs, including red snapper, sheepshead, and schooling Atlantic spadefish. Plan around Gulf conditions: nearshore water clarity is often poor, with the warmest water and best visibility from April through October. Boat access only.
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Louise Mine Pit (Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area)
Minnesota · 6.1–30.5 m
One of the flooded iron-mine pits in Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area near Crosby-Ironton, with diveable depths from about 20 ft down to roughly 100 ft. Like the other Cuyuna pits it offers clear, rock-filtered water (30-60 ft visibility typical for the area), sheer walls, submerged trees and mine-era artifacts; a life-size Jason Voorhees statue placed by divers is a well-known photo stop at depth. Part of a complex of about 50 mapped dive sites across 27 bodies of water in the recreation area.
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Louisiana Wreck
Wisconsin · 0.5–5.5 m
The wooden freight steamer Louisiana (1887) burned during the Great Storm of November 1913 in Washington Harbor; all crew survived a storm that sank 20 Great Lakes ships. The wreck lies near Schoolhouse Beach off Washington Island with its stern in 18 ft of water and bow nearly reaching the surface. Shallow depth, clear protected water, abundant structure and resident smallmouth bass make it a favorite of beginning divers and snorkelers.
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Louisville State Recreation Area (Lake 2)
Nebraska · —
Louisville SRA, off Highway 50 beside the Platte River between Omaha and Lincoln, contains five sandpit lakes totaling about 50 surface acres. Lake 2, which has the swim beach, is the lake regularly dived by Omaha-area clubs; rangers allow divers to enter to the right of the beach area with a dive flag. Visibility runs up to 10-15 ft and the sandy pits hold abundant panfish, bass, catfish and carp.
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Lovers Point
California · 4.6–21.3 m
A Pacific Grove classic off Ocean View Boulevard with three stone-stair entries (Lovers 1, 2 and 3) on the east side of the point. Rocky pinnacles rise 10-20 feet off a 30-40 foot sand bottom beyond the kelp canopy, and skilled divers can navigate around the point into Lovers Cove. Note the seasonal city restriction: May 1 - Sep 30 on Friday-Monday and holidays, diving east of the point is limited (permitted south of the pier only from sunset to 11:30 a.m.).
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Lowcountry Anglers' Reef
South Carolina · Up to 11.9 m
Artificial reef built from Cooper River Bridge rubble
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Lowell Point
Alaska · —
Lowell Point is a black-sand beach community a couple of miles south of Seward on Resurrection Bay and the area's standard shore dive. Swimming straight out from the beach reaches a 'car reef' of sunken vehicles that has accumulated marine growth, and the surrounding bay is known for invertebrate life, rockfish and occasional encounters with sea otters and Steller sea lions. It also serves as the staging area for boat dives further out in Resurrection Bay.
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Lucerne Wreck
Wisconsin · 3.8–6.1 m
The Lucerne, one of the largest three-masted schooners on the lakes, foundered with all hands in a November 1886 gale while carrying iron ore; rescuers found three sailors frozen in the rigging. The wreck lies about 200 yards off Long Island in 20 ft of Lake Superior water, with the centerboard top at 12.5 ft, inside Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. A buoyed, shallow, historically powerful dive — bring thermal protection for Superior's cold water.
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Lumberman Wreck
Wisconsin · 17.7–19.8 m
The three-masted lumber schooner Lumberman (1862) capsized in a sudden squall on April 6, 1893, off Oak Creek south of Milwaukee, sinking in about 65 ft of water. Rediscovered in 1983, the mostly intact hull at 58-65 ft has become southern Lake Michigan's most popular wreck dive, marked by a WHS mooring buoy and served by Milwaukee charters.
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M/V Castor
Florida · Up to 33.2 m
Artificial reef built from 258' X45' X 37' Coastal Freighter, the "M/V Castor". Customs Seizure
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M/V Material Service Wreck
Indiana · 7–11.5 m
American self-unloading diesel powered workbarge
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M/V Zion Train
Florida · Up to 27.4 m
Artificial reef built from 164' Steel Ship, the "Zion Train" ($25,000-Local Funding)
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Madeira Wreck
Minnesota · 3–33 m
The Madeira was a 436-foot steel schooner-barge driven onto Gold Rock Point beside Split Rock Lighthouse in the great Mataafa Storm of November 28, 1905. The hull broke into several large sections that now lie from about 10 feet down past 100 feet along the base of the cliff, including the pilothouse, bow and huge hull plates. It is the most famous and most dived shipwreck in Minnesota, reachable as a strenuous shore dive from the beach north of the lighthouse or, more comfortably, by charter boat. Cold water, depth and exposure to northeast seas demand solid cold-water skills.
IntermediateShore + boat
Madison Blue Spring
Florida · 7.6–27.4 m
Madison Blue Spring is a first-magnitude spring on the bank of the Withlacoochee River in Madison Blue Spring State Park, regularly voted among the best cave dives in the United States. The 82-ft-wide, 25-ft-deep basin leads to a cave entrance about 30 ft down that opens into more than 26,000 ft of mapped passage including famous rooms and tunnels along the gold line. Diving is restricted to certified cavern and cave divers with mandatory sign-in, two-diver teams, and no DPVs.
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Madison Quarry
Alabama · 3–16.8 m
A city-owned flooded limestone quarry in Madison, Alabama, formerly operated as Madison Aquatic Park with a full-service dive shop. It was best known for sunken attractions including a NASA Minuteman missile, an F-4 Phantom jet, a Titan missile nose cone, houseboats, a fire truck, and training platforms, with a max depth of about 55 ft (average ~40 ft) and 20-30 ft visibility. The park closed to recreational use around 2019-2020 when its operator went out of business, and as of 2024 the fenced site sits abandoned while the city weighs proposals to turn it into a nature preserve.
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Magnolia Rocks (Kettle Cove)
Massachusetts · 4.6–15.2 m
Magnolia Rocks (at Kettle Cove in Gloucester's Magnolia village) is a long granite ledge sloping into the sea, fronting a sand bottom strewn with medium and large boulders that run several hundred yards offshore. The boulder field shelters abundant lobsters and fish life, but the bare ledge entry is fully exposed to southerly swell and is considered one of the most hazardous entries/exits on Cape Ann — strictly a calm-day site for experienced divers.
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Mala Wharf
Hawaii · 3–10.7 m
The collapsed remains of Lahaina's Mala pier - knocked down by Hurricane Iniki in 1992 - now form one of Hawaii's best artificial reefs in only 10-35 ft of water. The fallen concrete slabs and pilings shelter resting whitetip reef sharks, abundant green turtles, frogfish and dense fish schools. The area was affected by the August 2023 Lahaina wildfire, but the boat ramp and dive site have reopened and diving has resumed.
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Malibu Center
California · Up to 18.3 m
Artificial reef built from Quarry Rock, Concrete Shelter, Car Bodies, Streetcar
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Mammoth Lake Scuba Park
Texas · 0–21.3 m
A 65-acre dive park in Clute (Brazoria County) southwest of Houston with more than 150 sunken objects, headlined by the fuselage of a C-130 cargo plane plus a short bus, boats and sculptures. Average depth is about 38 ft with a deep hole reaching 65-70 ft depending on water level. Visibility is modest (5-10 ft typical) and a marked thermocline cools the deeper water.
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