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Hawaii · 9.1–21.3 m
A convenient shore dive at the old runway beach park just north of downtown Kailua-Kona. A short swim over a lava ridge at ~30 ft leads to coral structure, arches and small caverns sloping to sand around 70-100 ft. A favorite local site for quick tank dives and night dives when seas are flat.
Kentucky · Up to 27.4 m
A 101-mile-long Corps of Engineers reservoir formed by Wolf Creek Dam in 1950, regarded by the Bluegrass Dive Club as one of Kentucky's best diving areas. Visibility runs 10-30 ft over rock bluffs, sunken boats and abundant game fish, with a pronounced thermocline around 35 ft. Most diving is staged from Burnside near Somerset, where the Diver's Den shop supports lake divers.
Nevada · 3–27.4 m
Diver's Cove at Sand Harbor, in Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, is the lake's most popular dive site: a sheltered, buoy-marked cove averaging about 30 ft deep with giant granite boulders and pass-throughs, a PVC buoyancy obstacle course, a small sunken barge, a Project Baseline monitoring station and other man-made oddities. Beyond the swim buoys a sandy hill slopes quickly into deeper water with large sunken trees and rocky outcrops (a sunken motorcycle lies off nearby Sand Point in about 90 ft). The gently sloping beach makes entries easy, but at ~6,225 ft elevation this is altitude diving, and Nevada requires a dive flag. Arrive before the 8 a.m. opening in summer - parking fills fast.
Massachusetts · 29–38 m
The Mars, a 117-ft iron steam tug built in 1890 by J.H. Dialogue & Sons, sank on 13 September 1942 after the coastal tanker Bidwell sheared off her bow in a collision east of Manomet Point, Plymouth. She rests upright and largely intact on a hard clay bottom in 95-125 feet of water, with the pilothouse lying on the bottom off her starboard side. The site is a BUAR exempted wreck open to recreational divers without a permit.
Nebraska · —
A 134-acre cluster of sand-and-gravel borrow pits beside the Platte River near Elm Creek, considered one of the clearer dive spots in Nebraska. The first pit holds sunken boats, small planes, sculptures and training platforms placed for dive classes, and all of the lakes are open to divers. Bottoms are sandy/muddy and silt easily, so good buoyancy is important.
Vermont · 18.3–33.5 m
Launched in 1815, the 146-foot Phoenix was the second commercial steamboat on Lake Champlain; she burned to the waterline on the night of September 4, 1819 en route from Burlington to Plattsburgh, killing six of the 46 aboard. The fire-charred hull now lies on the northern face of Colchester Shoal reef, bow in about 60 feet of water and stern dropping past 110 feet, with charred frame ends, engine mounting rods, and rudder hardware still visible. One of the oldest steamboat wrecks in North America, she is the signature advanced dive of the Vermont Underwater Historic Preserve system.
New Jersey · 17.4–18.9 m
Artificial reef built from 270' Barge - "Car Float 52" NJDEP deployment record: Ship, material: 270' Barge - "Car Float #52", deployed 1988.
Hawaii · Up to 33.5 m
Kualoa Artificial Reef - Corner C is a dive site in United States. Maximum depth is around 34 m. The site is reached by boat.
Georgia · 16.8–23.7 m
An offshore reef area 17.5 nautical miles east of St. Catherines Island combining natural live-bottom ledges with added structure including the upright Coast Guard ship Sagebrush, subway cars, M-60 tanks and a Liberty ship. Bottom depths run 55-75 ft, and the coral-encrusted Sagebrush wreck is the signature dive, reached by roughly 1.5-hour charter runs from marinas such as Fort McAllister in Richmond Hill. Currents, thermoclines and changeable visibility (30-50 ft) make this comparable to Panhandle wreck diving.
Texas · 16.8–39.6 m
A salt-dome-capped coral bank about 100 miles off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico, part of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and home to some of the healthiest coral reef in the western Atlantic region. The reef cap sits at roughly 55-90 ft with massive boulder star and brain coral heads, and is reached by overnight liveaboard charters out of Freeport/Galveston using sanctuary mooring buoys. Famous for mass coral spawning about a week after the August full moon and seasonal manta and whale shark encounters.
Texas · Up to 16.8 m
George Vancouver Liberty Ship is a dive site in United States. Maximum depth is around 17 m. The site is reached by boat.
Alabama · Up to 30 m
Wallace Reef is an artificial reef formed from a Liberty ship that was split into two pieces by Hurricane Frederic (1979), lying off Orange Beach in roughly 100 ft of water. It is a recognized offshore wreck dive.