United States Dive Sites
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Cape May - Redbird Reef III
New Jersey · 12.8–18 m
Artificial reef built from Subway Car (Redbird III) NJDEP deployment record: Subway car, material: Subway Car (Redbird III), deployed 2003.
Boat entry
Bob Mason Reef
Maryland · —
Artificial reef built from Designed units, 4 piles of 6 pyramids
IntermediateBoat entry
Summersville Lake - Battle Run / Salmon Run Shore Dives
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.
Shore entry
Sylvia
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.
IntermediateBoat entry
Byron shipwreck
Wisconsin · Up to 41 m
The Byron is an unusually small (35-ft) mid-19th-century schooner lying in 135 ft of water about twelve miles southeast of Sheboygan, within the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Discovered in 1977 when a commercial fisherman snagged the wreck, it is today almost completely covered by invasive mussels. A deep, dark, cold boat dive for experienced divers.
AdvancedBoat entry
China Cove (Donner Lake)
California · Up to 15 m
China Cove is a sheltered, sandy day-use beach on the southern shore of Donner Lake inside Donner Memorial State Park near Truckee, and the lake's best-known easy shore dive. The clear, cold cove bottoms out around 40-50 ft with visibility commonly in the 50-60 ft range, making it a relaxed beginner altitude dive with crawfish and trout over sand and granite. Picnic tables, BBQs and seasonal restrooms sit right behind the beach; a state park day-use fee applies.
Shore entry
Blue Water Lake
Missouri · Up to 70.1 m
A flooded lead-and-zinc mine pit in Oronogo, Missouri, minutes from Joplin, that filled with water after mining ceased in the 1950s. As 'Bluewater Lake,' its 14 acres of clear water reached depths of 200-230 ft — among the deepest inland dives in the Midwest — with training platforms, sunken attractions, flooded mine roads, and caves, run for decades by Captain John's Sports & Scuba. The site closed to diving around 2012 during EPA Superfund remediation of the surrounding mining district, with the pit used to receive lead-contaminated waste.
AdvancedShore entry
Ship Rock (Catalina Island)
California · 4.6–36.6 m
A guano-capped pinnacle about two miles off Isthmus Cove at Catalina that resembles a ship under sail, rising from deep water to break the surface. Boulder slopes and kelp-covered reef descend from 15 ft to sand at 120+ ft at the base, with structure continuing far deeper for technical divers. It is one of Catalina's signature boat dives, with abundant lobster, schooling blacksmith and frequent sea lion fly-bys.
IntermediateBoat entry
Golden Beach Eternal Reefballs Site 18
Florida · Up to 13.4 m
Artificial reef built from 10 Modules - 5 Pallet Balls and 5 Bay Balls, funded by Eternal Reefs
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Enterprise Cannery
California · 4.6–19.8 m
A shore dive off the north end of San Carlos Beach at the foot of Reeside Avenue, where the remains of Cannery Row's sardine industry — including a large submerged pipe once used to transfer sardines from boats to the canneries — now serve as a navigation line across a rock-and-sand patch reef. The rocky reef supports one of the thickest remaining giant kelp beds in Monterey, and the pipe leads seaward to rock piles and the famous Metridium Fields of giant plumose anemones at about 65 ft. Protected, easy entry and abundant macro life make it a favorite relaxed dive and training area inside the Ed Ricketts State Marine Conservation Area (no take).
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