Interesting underwater ruins?

[lionfish-eater]

Just off Provo, Turks & Caicos. I was told it was a failed French game show set. And that it failed b/c contestants kept getting bent.

looks like an antenna or radar dish frame.

 

[Dan]

How about the one in Okinawa, Japan?

 

[Jake]

How about the one in Okinawa, Japan?

That's the Yonaguni monument. It fascinates me, but my bet is that it's mostly or entirely natural. Nevertheless, I'd love to dive there someday.

Another decent video on it is one that Monty Hall made recently.

 

[Dan]

That's the Yonaguni monument. It fascinates me, but my bet is that it's mostly or entirely natural. Nevertheless, I'd love to dive there someday.

Another decent video on it is one that Monty Hall made recently.

Oops, I didn't realize it is Yonaguni monument after you pointed it out.

It is fascinating site to see. I do agree with you that it doesn't look like man made. Thanks for posting Monty Hall video of the site. I enjoyed watching it, but not sure if I would dive it, not much fish to see.

 

[divinh]

Does anyone here dive with their tanks upside-down like in the Monty Hall video?

 

[diversteve]

looks like an antenna or radar dish frame.

No, just a failed game show set.

The Dome Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands — by Danielle Fernald

 

[diversteve]

There's at least one town underwater at Lake Mead. The one I saw was mostly foundations only. A few years ago when the drought was bad you could get there on an ATV. Now I believe it's covered again.

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

There's at least one town underwater at Lake Mead. The one I saw was mostly foundations only. A few years ago when the drought was bad you could get there on an ATV. Now I believe it's covered again.

Now that I think of it, there is supposed to be one in a lake near Banff National Park

 

[Sbiriguda]

There are plenty of these in Italy
The most famous is by far Baia (Naples) already mentioned. What makes it unique is that the land collapsed underwater during the Roman age due to a phenomenon called bradyseism
So the city went underwater without being destroyed by earthquakes or plundered and it remained untouched. It was rediscovered in the 1950’ I think. Baia was also a rich town in the Roman age, emperors and rich families of Rome used to have villas on the seaside there

Another famous one is Capodacqua. A town from the Middle Ages submerged by a lake
Anyway there are many of these scattered around Italy
archeologiasubacquea.it - Portale di Archeologia Subacquea

Another famous site is in China
The ancient underwater Lion City of China

I know they have underwater ruins from the Middle Ages in Hastings (uk) but I don’t know if they dive there

 

[Lorenzoid]

In South Carolina, the construction of a hydroelectric dam and subsequent flooding of the Jocassee Valley community in 1973 led to a number of ruins that can be dived in what is now known as Lake Jocassee, though in the tech realm due to the depths. Fans of the movie "Deliverance" know that this is the flooding depicted in the movie. Good article here: Here's what's at the bottom of Lake Jocassee

A portion of the cemetery where some headstones still remain is diveable at around 135 feet, I believe. I have not tried it because although recreational divers do it now and then as a bounce dive, I would like to get some tech training so I can spend more time there--and with helium so I am more able to remember what I saw. Videos can be found on YouTube.

As the article linked to above mentions, there is also the Attakulla Lodge at 300 feet, and some remains of Camp Jocassee.