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Continued from the United States dive sites guide, which covers regions, seasonality, and planning details.
Wisconsin · 14–23 m
The steam barge S.C. Baldwin (1871) sank off Point Beach near Two Rivers in August 1908 and was relocated by sport fishermen in the mid-1970s. She sits upright in about 60-75 feet of water with her stem post rising 30 feet off the bottom, marked by a seasonal mooring buoy. Regularly documented by sanctuary archaeologists, she is one of the area's most popular intermediate-level wreck dives.
Wisconsin · 24–27 m
The wooden bulk freighter Selah Chamberlain sank in a foggy 1886 collision off Sheboygan with the loss of five crew. The wreck lies in 90 feet of water two miles northeast of Sheboygan Point, broken into three sections on sand, with the fantail stern split open to expose her boilers and engine. A WHS mooring buoy and published dive guide make it a staple intermediate-advanced charter dive on the Shipwreck Coast.
Florida · —
archaeological site in Bay County, United States of America
Georgia · Up to 3 m
Stafford Island is a dive site located in United States. Depths run to roughly 3 m. The site is reached by boat.
Massachusetts · 3–4.6 m
Stage Fort Park on Gloucester Harbor offers two protected training beaches — sandy Half Moon Beach and rocky Cressy Beach — with easy walk-in entries and depths of only 10-15 ft. The best diving follows the rock slopes east of Cressy or south of Half Moon, where lobsters and crabs hide among the boulders. With restrooms, a snack bar in season and big paid parking lots, it is one of the most facility-rich (if shallowest) dive venues on Cape Ann.
Texas · 16.8–40 m
A siltstone-claystone bank about 80 miles off the Texas coast, 30 miles inshore of West Flower Garden Bank, added to the national marine sanctuary in 1996. Uplifted siltstone pinnacles at roughly 55-90 ft create a 'moonscape' of ridges covered in sponges, fire coral and Madracis coral, and a wall on the north side drops sharply toward 180 ft. Normally dived from the same Freeport liveaboard trips that visit the Flower Garden Banks.
California · 3–15.2 m
A sheltered cove on Carmel Bay below the Pebble Beach golf links, accessed through the private Beach & Tennis Club. Usually in the lee of the prevailing northwest wind, it offers calm granite reefs, shallow canyons and kelp in 10-50 feet, with most reef at 25-30 feet. Access is tightly controlled: a 17-Mile Drive gate fee, diving limited to 10 divers per day on the beach east of the pier, daylight hours only, and beach parking reservable through the harbormaster.
Missouri · 6.1–21.3 m
A 24,900-acre Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Sac River in southwest Missouri, regarded as one of the state's better freshwater dive lakes. Underwater terrain includes bluffs, points and submerged structure mirroring the surrounding Ozark hills. Visibility typically runs 8-10 ft, improving to 25 ft or more in spring. Orleans Trail Marina on the northwest shore is the hub for divers, offering boat rentals, scuba equipment and cylinder fills.
Connecticut · 1.5–6.1 m
Connecticut's most popular shore dive, at the tip of Stonington Borough where two stone jetties shelter a sandy beach entry. The shoreline slopes gently to about 20 feet over boulder fields covered in kelp and seaweed, and Gulf Stream-carried tropical juveniles appear in late summer. It is an easy, protected site widely used for training and night dives.
Wisconsin · 2–3 m
The scow schooner Success, built at Manitowoc in 1875 for the lumber trade, was driven ashore at Whitefish Bay, Door County, during a November 1896 storm; her entire crew was rescued by local fishermen in a daring small-boat effort. Her remains lie in about 8 feet of water 500 feet south of Whitefish Dunes State Park. The shallow sandy site is an easy beach-entry snorkel or novice dive on calm days.
West Virginia · Up to 12.2 m
Shore diving on Summersville Lake is done from Battle Run Beach near the campground and from the winter access ramp near the dam, with the Salmon Run ramp area serving as another easy entry on the north shore. Training platforms sit at roughly 20-25 ft and a small sunken boat, the Thomas Patrick, lies off the winter ramp. The same exceptional clarity that earned the lake its 'Little Bahamas' nickname makes these easy walk-in dives rewarding.
West Virginia · Up to 12.2 m
Summersville Lake, nicknamed 'The Little Bahamas of the East,' is widely called the clearest freshwater lake east of the Mississippi, with summer visibility of 20-40 ft. Long Point Cliff is the lake's signature boat dive, a towering sandstone formation with walls dropping to about 40 ft, and nearby Bubble's Cave offers a cavern-like ledge with a trapped air pocket about 25 ft down. Both sites are boat-access only and stay clearer than the shoreline areas.
Washington · 4.6–30.5 m
A designated conservation area on the west shore of Hood Canal about 2 miles north of Hoodsport, widely considered one of Washington's premier shore dives. Two main walls (north and south) drop to 70-80 ft with deeper walls beyond 100 ft for technical divers, plus a sunken boat north of the north wall and a small wreck between the walls. The site is not current-sensitive, and resident giant Pacific octopus and mated wolf eel pairs are the headline attractions.
Alaska · Up to 27.4 m
Sunshine Cove is a designated SEAtrails underwater trail roughly 34 miles north of Juneau near the end of Glacier Highway, a wide cove framed by rocky cliffs with a small island at its edge. Reefs in the cove are loaded with nudibranchs and crabs, and Steller sea lions from the nearby Benjamin Island haulout frequently visit divers. Depths run to about 90 feet, and access is via a steep trail from a highway turnout down to the beach.
Florida · Up to 25 m
The tug Sylvia is one of several tugboats scuttled as public artificial reefs in the Escambia County reef zones off Pensacola Beach. She rests on sand in about 82 feet of water; storms have removed her wheelhouse and upper deck and the hull has subsided roughly 20% into the bottom. The remaining hull still holds plenty of reef fish and is commonly paired with neighboring reefs on two-tank charter trips.
Missouri · 3–24.4 m
A clear Ozarks reservoir near Branson with a dedicated dive operation (Diventures) based at the State Park Marina. Visibility commonly runs 20-30+ ft, unusual for a Midwest lake. Signature dives include the Zebulon Pike, a 90 ft double-deck excursion boat sunk as an artificial reef at roughly 80 ft, the 'Enchanted Forest' of submerged standing oak trees, and remnants of the flooded town of Oasis. Most sites are reached by boat from the marina.
Florida · Up to 8.5 m
Artificial reef built from Fiberglass Boat Molds, 350 square feet Coverage
South Carolina · Up to 14 m
Artificial reef built from Approximate Center of Reef
Wisconsin · 95–99 m
The tiny scow schooner Tennie and Laura foundered in a sudden 1903 storm while hauling lumber from Muskegon to Milwaukee; the captain survived but his crewman drowned. Found during the 1998-2000 search for the fish tug Linda E, she sits intact in 325 feet of water nine miles southeast of Port Washington, a rare surviving example of the Great Lakes scow schooner type. Only highly experienced technical teams dive her — for everyone else she remains an archaeological time capsule.
Florida · Up to 23.5 m
Tessie is a small steel boat deployed as part of Escambia County's public artificial reef program in state waters off Pensacola Beach. It sits on a sand bottom in about 77 feet of water and shows as a very small mark on sounders. Like the other nearshore Pensacola reefs it concentrates snapper, grouper and baitfish on an otherwise featureless seabed.