United States Dive Sites
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Madison Blue Spring
Florida · 7.6–27.4 m
Madison Blue Spring is a first-magnitude spring on the bank of the Withlacoochee River in Madison Blue Spring State Park, regularly voted among the best cave dives in the United States. The 82-ft-wide, 25-ft-deep basin leads to a cave entrance about 30 ft down that opens into more than 26,000 ft of mapped passage including famous rooms and tunnels along the gold line. Diving is restricted to certified cavern and cave divers with mandatory sign-in, two-diver teams, and no DPVs.
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Corsair Plane Wreck Verified
Hawaii · 32–35.1 m
Intact F4U Corsair aircraft on sand off southeast Oahu, normally reached by boat as a deep advanced dive. The aircraft is upright with cockpit and propeller features visible; the surrounding sand hosts garden eels and macro life. It is exterior-only and should be planned as a short, current-aware deep dive.
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Atlantic City - MARGARET NANCY
New Jersey · 15.5–21.9 m
Artificial reef built from 75' Clam Dredge - "Margaret Nancy" NJDEP deployment record: Ship, material: 75' Clam Dredge - "Margaret Nancy", deployed 1990.
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Ottawa Wreck
Wisconsin · 4–5 m
The Ottawa, built in 1881 as the Boscobel, was one of the largest and most powerful wrecking tugs on the Great Lakes until she burned at her mooring off Red Cliff in 1909. Most of her hull structure, including a 158-foot run of port side and large starboard sections, rests on sand in just 12-16 feet of water in Buffalo Bay. The shallow, sheltered site is a favorite of beginner divers, snorkelers and kayakers in the Apostle Islands region.
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Lake Sakakawea (Garrison Dam area)
North Dakota · —
The third-largest reservoir in the US, formed by Garrison Dam on the Missouri River, and the standard open-water training and fun-dive lake for North Dakota's dive community. Water near the dam face is the clearest in the river system (15-20 ft on good days), and shallow bays hold aquatic grass beds sheltering fish, turtles and crayfish, with rock formations and fossils on the lake bed. Lake Sakakawea State Park near Pick City provides ramps and shore access.
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Lizzie D (Rum Runner)
New York · 18–24.4 m
The wreck of the Lizzie D, a 122-gross-ton tugboat that sank on 19 October 1922 carrying a contraband cargo of Prohibition-era whiskey. The 'Rum Runner' rests upright and largely intact in about 80 feet of water roughly eight miles southeast of Atlantic Beach Inlet. Its moderate depth and proximity to shore make it a popular summer wreck dive; bottles have historically been recovered from the wreck.
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Turtle Pinnacle Verified
Hawaii · 7–18 m
Turtle Pinnacle is a North Kona boat dive around a submerged volcanic pinnacle and turtle cleaning station. The site rises into shallow water and drops to moderate depths, making it a relaxed boat profile when currents are light. Its main draw is watching green sea turtles being cleaned by reef fish while maintaining wildlife distance.
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Barnegat Light - William Berndt Memorial Reef
New Jersey · 14–14.9 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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PBY Catalina Wreck (Lake Mead)
Nevada · 45.7–48.8 m
The wreck of a PBY Catalina flying boat that flipped and broke in two while attempting a water landing on Boulder Basin in 1949 with its landing gear down. The airframe rests in roughly 150-160 ft of water and is dived only by technical divers on guided charters; it is one of Lake Mead's protected submerged cultural resources alongside the better-known B-29. Exact coordinates are not published to protect the site.
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Monastery Beach North (North Monastery)
California · 3–39.6 m
The north end of Monastery Beach (San Jose Creek Beach) on Carmel Bay, sitting on the eastern rim of the Carmel submarine canyon — a 200-yard swim can put a diver over 200 feet of water. Granite reefs and pristine kelp forest start close to shore, but the steep, coarse-sand beach produces violently plunging shorebreak and a washing-machine undertow. The beach is infamous for diver and wader fatalities (roughly 20 deaths since 2004, earning the nickname 'Mortuary Beach'); enter and exit only at the extreme north end and only on small-swell days.
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