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Continued from the United States dive sites guide, which covers regions, seasonality, and planning details.
Florida · 3–7.6 m
USS Amesbury, locally called Alexander's Wreck, is a former U.S. Navy destroyer escort/high-speed transport on the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Shipwreck Trail. The shallow wreck lies in about 25 ft / 7.6 m roughly 5 nautical miles west of Key West. NOAA documents two hull/superstructure sections about 600 ft apart, including recognizable gun mounts and a debris field.
North Carolina · 3–9 m
Historic USS Huron lies just off Nags Head in shallow Atlantic water and is managed as an NC Heritage Dive Site. The wreck is close enough for shore access in calm summer conditions, with buoys commonly marking bow and stern, and is useful for both snorkelers and shallow scuba divers. Treat it as a protected archaeological site: look, photograph, and do not disturb or collect artifacts.
Hawaii · 18.3–38.7 m
West Oahu wreck/artificial-reef dive around the Mahi minesweeper area off Waiʻanae. The wreck is known for eagle rays, reef fish, and coral-encrusted structure, but collapsed sections make penetration inappropriate. Treat the current PickADive record as a composite Mahi/Navy Barge reef-area record unless later split by precise official coordinates.
Florida · 1–6.7 m
Shallow iron shipwreck southwest of Loggerhead Key in Dry Tortugas National Park. The site has two main wreckage fields and is suitable for careful snorkelers and beginner-level scuba divers when reached by boat in calm conditions. Treat the wreck and coral as protected cultural/natural resources.
California · 3–9.1 m
Shallow historic side-wheel steamer wreck at Middle Anacapa Island, protected within Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and National Park. Divers mainly see machinery/paddle-wheel remnants and growth-covered wreckage in kelp-reef habitat rather than an intact hull. This is a boat dive with cold-water exposure and protected-resource rules.
U.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas · 6–27.4 m
Large steel WIT Shoal II / former LST-467 wreck west of St. Thomas, normally run as an advanced boat dive in about 90 ft of water. The wreck rises high off the bottom and has multiple deck levels, but penetration or overhead swim-throughs should be treated as wreck-trained dives only. Expect fish life around the structure and plan the dive around current, gas, and boat pickup.
Hawaii · 18.3–30.5 m
Advanced boat dive on two adjacent artificial-reef wrecks off Waikiki: the larger Navy yard oiler YO-257 and the smaller San Pedro fishing vessel. The pair is often dived as a dual-wreck route, with turtles, reef sharks, eagle rays, trevally/amberjacks, and a visible tourist submarine route. Penetration is possible only for trained divers and should remain guide- and conditions-dependent.
Florida · 17–19.8 m
Artificial reef built from East/West Chain of 28 Sites Roughly 200' Apart-Coordinates for Center
Florida · 17.1–19.8 m
Artificial reef built from East/West Chain of 24 Sites Roughly 200' Apart-Coordinates for Center
Florida · 16.8–19.8 m
Artificial reef built from SE/NW Chain 13 Sites Roughly 200' Apart-Coordinates for Center
Massachusetts · Up to 27.4 m
An unnamed steel stern trawler of roughly 65 ft rests on top of Stellwagen Bank in just over 30 m of water, inside the outbound Boston shipping lane that crosses the national marine sanctuary. Decades on the bottom have split the wreck apart: the pilothouse stands upright with helm, throttle, and radio gear still visible, while the hull and stern lie separately near a lone trawl net reel, with patches of blue and white paint still clinging to the steel. NOAA and a local dive charter installed a subsurface mooring here, and divers visiting the site are helping investigate the wreck's still-unsolved identity.
Florida · 5.8–8.2 m
Artificial reef built from 1 Goliath, 7 Ultras, 13 Pallets and 27 Bay Balls, 5 of 7 drops this grant and day
Delaware · 14–20 m
Mr. G and the Rusty Pusher are two small tug/pusher-type vessels reefed on Delaware Artificial Reef Site #10, which lies 5.5 nautical miles from Indian River Inlet in 55-66 ft of water. The site's wrecks and barges are heavily encrusted with blue mussels that attract sea bass, tautog and triggerfish, making it a regular stop for Delmarva dive and spearfishing charters.
Delaware · 14–20 m
YC-725 was a 251-ft, 2,344-ton steel vessel built in 1918 at Globe Shipbuilding in Superior, Wisconsin (originally the Contoocook, later Elda) and finished her career as a U.S. Navy open lighter barge. She was sunk in 1946 and lies on what is now Delaware Artificial Reef Site #10 in about 60 ft of water, 5.5 nautical miles from Indian River Inlet, where her mussel-covered hull holds sea bass and tautog.
Delaware · 14–20 m
YON-80 is a 110 x 35 ft, 400-ton U.S. Navy yard fuel-oil barge built in 1941 by Dravo Corp of Wilmington, Delaware, and sunk as reef material on Delaware Artificial Reef Site #10 on March 10, 2010. The barge sits in the site's 55-65 ft depth range, 5.5 nautical miles off Indian River Inlet, encrusted in blue mussels and holding sea bass and tautog.
Alabama · Up to 21.6 m
The 105 Tug is a sunken tugboat off the Alabama/Pensacola coast, roughly 14 miles offshore in about 100 feet of water, and is a popular charter wreck dive noted for abundant fish life. It is grouped with the Navy Tug and 151 Tug in dive-magazine coverage of the region's sunken tugs. The compact wreck offers a wheelhouse to explore and surrounding sand where rays and bottom-dwellers are found.
Florida · 16.5–22.9 m
Artificial reef built from 500 tons of Concrete Poles, Pilings, Culverts and Barricades
Delaware · Up to 12.8 m
Artificial reef built from Concrete, Plus 35' and 42' Steel Vessels (“P3” and “Dolphin”)
Michigan · 10.7–13.7 m
The A.R. Colborn was a wooden steam barge built in 1882 and abandoned at Port Huron on April 28, 1922; her remains lie alongside a sunken crane in 35-45 ft of water in the swift St. Clair River just south of the Blue Water Bridge. The pair make a popular high-speed drift dive for experienced local divers, flown over by the strong current that keeps the river exceptionally clear. The site sits among a cluster of river wrecks (M.E. Tremble, Ben Hur, lightship LV-55/James Beard) dived from the Port Huron seawall.
New York · 7.6–33.5 m
The wreck of the schooner A.E. Vickery, which struck a shoal near Rock Island Lighthouse and sank on 15-16 August 1889, on the US side of the St. Lawrence River near Clayton in the Thousand Islands. One of the most popular dives on the river: a buoy line leads down through a swift surface current to the shoal head at 25-30 feet, with the bow near 65 feet, the stern dropping over a ledge to about 110 feet, and broken masts trailing into the channel to roughly 180 feet.
Florida · Up to 30.5 m
Artificial reef built from 210' Freighter Formally the "Ocean alley", Near Looe Key
North Carolina · 25.9–33.5 m
The Aeolus is a 409-ft former US Navy attack cargo and cable-repair ship intentionally sunk in 1988 as part of North Carolina artificial reef AR-305, south of Beaufort Inlet. Hurricane Fran broke the wreck into three large sections, creating a multi-level dive from about 85 ft down to 110 ft with abundant swim-throughs. It is a dependable site for schooling baitfish, amberjack, and resident sand tiger sharks.