United States Dive Sites

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K2 Sailboat

Florida · Up to 30.5 m

Artificial reef built from 35' X 10 'X 11' Steel Sailboat

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Memorial Stadium (South end)

Maryland · Up to 7 m

Artificial reef built from Reefballs, rubble

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Shark Condos is a deeper Molokini site where white-tip reef sharks use cave/ledge pockets near the crater rim. It is a scuba-only advanced/deep profile, not a snorkel site. Divers should observe sharks from outside the structure and avoid penetration or harassment.

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Big Mans Reef

Texas · Up to 14.6 m

Big Mans Reef is a dive site in United States. Maximum depth is around 15 m. The site is reached by boat.

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San Pablo (W) Ship

Florida · Up to 25.6 m

The San Pablo, known locally as the 'Russian Freighter,' was a 315-foot fruit hauler torpedoed by a U-boat off Costa Rica in 1942, refloated, and then deliberately destroyed off Pensacola in 1944 during a secret U.S. weapons test using a radio-controlled boat packed with 3,000 pounds of explosives. The blast scattered her across the seafloor in about 84 feet of water, leaving boilers, refrigeration coils and large sections of twisted hull to explore. It is site #2 on the Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail and one of Pensacola's most popular intermediate wreck dives.

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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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Lake Tenkiller - Tenkiller Scuba Park (Gene's Dive Area)

Oklahoma · 3–18.3 m

Lake Tenkiller in the Cookson Hills is Oklahoma's best-known dive lake, and its designated scuba park near Strayhorn Landing on the south end has been served by Gene's Aqua Pro dive shop since 1971. Sunken attractions include an airplane fuselage, school bus, Coast Guard helicopter and several boats, with a 'Grand Tour Challenge' linking seven of them. Dives in the area run to about 60 ft with visibility typically 3-10 ft (better, 8-28 ft, in cooler months).

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Newport - South Jetty / Yaquina Bay

Oregon · 4.6–18 m

Newport on the central Oregon coast hosts roughly ten dive sites in and around Yaquina Bay and just offshore, with the south jetty area at South Beach being a longtime shore- and boat-diving hub. The 'Newport Fingers' are five rocky outcroppings off the south jetty; fingers 3 and 4 are favored as they are more protected than the fifth and deeper than the second. Sites offer rocky reef structure, marine invertebrates and fish in cold, often surgy Pacific water.

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General Butler Wreck

Vermont · Up to 12 m

General Butler Wreck is a wreck dive located in United States. The site is reached by boat.

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Garrison Dam Tailrace (Missouri River)

North Dakota · —

The tailrace below Garrison Dam near Pick City and Riverdale, about 70 miles northwest of Bismarck, is North Dakota's signature dive: a cold, dark drift/current dive famous for close encounters with 6-7 ft American paddlefish, plus sturgeon, walleye, burbot and catfish. Water released from the bottom of Lake Sakakawea keeps the tailrace frigid year-round, and visibility tops out around 15 ft; locals time dives to zero-release (dam shutdown) periods announced by the Army Corps for calmer, clearer conditions. The riverbed downstream is the longest unaltered stretch of the Missouri system and yields bison bones and other artifacts.

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USS Tarpon Wreck

North Carolina · 35–43 m

The ex-USS Tarpon (SS-175) was a WWII fleet submarine that earned seven battle stars in the Pacific and was the first US submarine of the war to sink a German raider. Sold for scrap, she foundered under tow off Cape Hatteras on 26 August 1957. The hull sits upright with a slight port list in 140 ft of water with the decks at about 110-115 ft, usually patrolled by several sand tiger sharks, and is considered an advanced dive with good visibility but frequent current.

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Aeolus (Wrack)

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.

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