Charleston 60' Reef
South Carolina · Up to 18 m
Artificial reef built from Ronald McDonald House rails
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Dunedin Reef
Florida · Up to 8.5 m
Artificial reef built from 22 pieces of Concrete Culverts and Rubble
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Sand Hollow Reservoir
Utah · 3–18.3 m
A warm, red-sandstone-rimmed reservoir in Sand Hollow State Park near Hurricane, completed in 2002 and now southern Utah's most popular training and recreation dive. A designated scuba area holds purpose-sunk attractions including a twin-engine Cessna 320, a 26-foot Reinell boat, a VW-style bus, toilets, a practice bomb and a buoyancy course, lying at roughly 35-60 feet. Summer water reaches 75-80 F with 15-20 ft visibility, and the reservoir is dived year-round.
Shore + boat
Lake Coeur d'Alene - Independence Point
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.
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Dublin Lake
New Hampshire · 0–30.5 m
A clear 240-acre glacial lake at about 1,480 feet elevation beneath Mount Monadnock, popular with regional divers and training classes. Shore access points along the northeastern shore off Route 101 lead to a bottom that slopes steeply to about 60 feet past glacial boulder fields before flattening into silt that reaches 90-110 feet. Visibility averages over 30 feet, unusually good for a New England lake; altitude diving procedures apply.
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Fish America Reef
South Carolina · 1.5–3 m
Artificial reef built from Approximate Center of Reef
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The Sunken Fleet of 1758
New York · 7.6–15.2 m
A NYS DEC Submerged Heritage Preserve in the south basin of Lake George, about one mile north of Lake George Beach. The site holds the remains of seven flat-bottomed bateaux (warships of the French and Indian War) plus a replica bateau built by local schoolchildren in 1997. Some 260 bateaux were deliberately scuttled here in autumn 1758 to protect them under winter ice; this cluster is also known as the Wiawaka bateaux.
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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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Gypsum Prince
Delaware · 14.6–24.4 m
A British-built freighter that sank in 1942 after colliding with the tanker Voco at the end of the Harbor of Refuge breakwater off Cape Henlopen, then was wire-dragged and demolished as a navigation hazard. The wreck today is a sprawling field of twisted plates and machinery on sand in roughly 50-80 ft of water that shelters lobster, tautog and sea bass. Its position at the bay mouth means strong currents, and local charters dive it at slack tide.
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14 South County
Florida · 16.5–22.9 m
Artificial reef built from 500 tons of Concrete Poles, Pilings, Culverts and Barricades
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