United States Dive Sites
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Hollicutt’s Noose
Maryland · Up to 6.1 m
Artificial reef built from Rubble, o ster shell, marl,concrete cubes, tire units
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SS S.C. Baldwin Wreck
Wisconsin · 14–23 m
The steam barge S.C. Baldwin (1871) sank off Point Beach near Two Rivers in August 1908 and was relocated by sport fishermen in the mid-1970s. She sits upright in about 60-75 feet of water with her stem post rising 30 feet off the bottom, marked by a seasonal mooring buoy. Regularly documented by sanctuary archaeologists, she is one of the area's most popular intermediate-level wreck dives.
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Table Rock Lake (State Park Marina dive area)
Missouri · 3–24.4 m
A clear Ozarks reservoir near Branson with a dedicated dive operation (Diventures) based at the State Park Marina. Visibility commonly runs 20-30+ ft, unusual for a Midwest lake. Signature dives include the Zebulon Pike, a 90 ft double-deck excursion boat sunk as an artificial reef at roughly 80 ft, the 'Enchanted Forest' of submerged standing oak trees, and remnants of the flooded town of Oasis. Most sites are reached by boat from the marina.
IntermediateShore + boat
Lofthus
Florida · 4.6–6.1 m
The Lofthus, a 222-ft iron-hulled Norwegian barque built in 1868, wrecked off Manalapan in 1898 while carrying lumber from Pensacola to Buenos Aires. The scattered iron hull now lies in 15-20 ft of water about 175 yards offshore, three-quarters of a mile north of Boynton Inlet, and was designated Florida's eighth Underwater Archaeological Preserve in 2004 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sand movement alternately exposes and buries the wreckage, which shelters lobster, grunts, porkfish and rays.
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Ingraham Street Bridge
California · 15–21 m
When San Diego's old Ingraham Street Bridge across Mission Bay was demolished in 1992, its concrete slabs and rebar were sunk in about 60 feet of water in Wreck Alley by the California Department of Fish and Game's Artificial Reef Program. The criss-crossed slabs cover roughly a quarter mile of seafloor, creating dense cover that holds more fish than the nearby ship wrecks, plus abundant lobsters, eels and gorgonians. Its shallower depth makes it the rare Wreck Alley stop accessible to entry-level open-water divers and a favorite night dive.
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Garbage Beach
Massachusetts · 1.5–21.3 m
Garbage Beach - officially Woods Hole Waterfront Park - is a well-known local dive in Woods Hole Harbor, Falmouth: a small lawn and pocket beach next to the Marine Biological Laboratory piers. Divers enter from the beach stairs or giant-stride off the second MBL pier into an eelgrass meadow with depths from about 5 ft near shore to as much as 70 ft at high tide farther out. The site must be dived around high slack water because Woods Hole's tidal currents are powerful, and harbor boat traffic is heavy in season. Visibility is typically modest, but the eelgrass and pilings hold abundant invertebrate and fish life.
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Sandusky Wreck (Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve)
Michigan · 21.3–25.6 m
The Sandusky is an 1848 two-masted brig, the oldest known dived shipwreck in the Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve, lost with all hands in a September 1856 gale while carrying grain from Chicago to Buffalo. Her hull sits intact in about 85 ft of Lake Michigan five miles west of the Mackinac Bridge, slightly heeled to port, with deck depths around 70 ft. A replica scroll figurehead adorns the bow below the intact jib-boom, and the windlass, bilge pumps and centerboard winch remain in place; a seasonal mooring buoy marks the site.
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Simkins Dam Reef at Swan Point
Maryland · Up to 6.1 m
Artificial reef built from Simkins Dam rubble
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