United States Dive Sites

1,024 mapped sites

Best dive sites in United States

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Cape May - WYOMING

New Jersey · 12.8–18 m

Artificial reef built from 100' Clam Dredge - "Wyoming" NJDEP deployment record: Ship, material: 100' Clam Dredge - "Wyoming", deployed 1991.

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Regina Wreck (Sanilac Shores Underwater Preserve)

Michigan · 7.6–24.4 m

The Regina is a 250-ft steel package freighter lost with all hands in the Great Storm of November 1913 and not located until 1986. She lies upside down off Port Sanilac in the Sanilac Shores Underwater Preserve in about 80 ft of Lake Huron, with the hull bottom reached at roughly 25 ft. A 56-ft opening in the hull allows qualified wreck divers into the hold, and scattered cargo still litters the lake floor around her.

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Barnegat Light - In Memory of Fish Hawks Saltwater Anglers Reef

New Jersey · 14–15.8 m

Artificial reef built from M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) NJDEP deployment record: Military vehicle, material: M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), deployed 1999.

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Alexander Springs

Florida · 1.5–7.6 m

Alexander Springs is a first-magnitude spring in the Ocala National Forest and the only site in the forest where scuba diving is allowed. The broad, gin-clear pool slopes from a sandy swim beach to roughly 25 ft over the vent, making it one of Florida's best easy dives for newly certified divers and training classes. The recreation area includes a campground, bathhouse and canoe launch on the lush, palm-lined spring run.

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Cape May - Georgia

New Jersey · 12.8–15.8 m

Artificial reef built from 35' Sport Boat - "Georgia" NJDEP deployment record: Ship, material: 35' Sport Boat - "Georgia", deployed 1993.

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Tunnels (Makua Beach) Verified

Hawaii · 1.5–21 m

Tunnels, also called Makua Beach, is a north-shore Kauai shore dive and snorkel site with a horseshoe reef, outer drop-off, lava tubes, caves, and tunnel-like reef structure. It is excellent in calm summer conditions but can be hazardous in winter or high surf. The site works for snorkeling inside the protected reef and scuba on the outer features when conditions allow.

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Garden State North - John Killian Memorial Reef

New Jersey · 19.8–25 m

Artificial reef built from 97' Tugboat - "Vincent Paul Pessolano" (AKA "Wagner's Point") NJDEP deployment record: Military vehicle, material: M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), deployed 1999.

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Coral Street Beach

California · 3–15.2 m

A gravel pocket beach at Ocean View Boulevard and Coral Street in Pacific Grove, near Point Pinos. Beyond the eelgrass-covered boulders of the shallows, the bottom forms a sawtooth pattern of rocky ridges and sand channels running parallel to shore, rich with invertebrate life and coralline algae. The shallow rocky approach makes it a high-tide dive, and it is more exposed than the sites inside Monterey Bay.

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Little Egg - J. Drew Messler Reef

New Jersey · 15.8–17.1 m

Artificial reef built from M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) NJDEP deployment record: Military vehicle, material: M-113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), deployed 1996.

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China Wreck

Delaware · 12.2–15.2 m

The broken remains of an unidentified late-19th-century wooden sailing ship (often attributed to the 1880 barkentine D.H. Bills) lying at the mouth of Delaware Bay roughly 12 miles off Cape Henlopen. The low rubble mound, about 100 ft long and 6-8 ft high in 45-50 ft of water, still yields fragments and occasionally intact pieces of its Victorian-era English china cargo. It is one of the region's classic artifact dives but must be timed to slack tide because bay currents rip across the flat sand bottom.

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Sabine

Texas · Up to 13.1 m

Sabine is a dive site located in United States. Depths run to roughly 13 m. The site is reached by boat.

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Arctic Wreck

Wisconsin · 3–4.6 m

The 1881 ice-breaking tug Arctic served Goodrich Transportation for 49 years before sinking in 1930. The wreck lies partially sand-covered in 10-15 ft of water in two large sections about 800 ft apart, 1.5 miles northeast of the Manitowoc Breakwater Light, within the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The stempost rises seven feet from the sand on the northern section; the southern section holds the rudder, bilge structure and boiler. An easy boat, kayak or snorkel visit.

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