Interesting fun or unique dives

[Fishdip]

Bonne Terre mine.
Loch low minn quarry (for the paddle fish.)
Dutch Springs in PA Update (1/2022): The future of Dutch Springs is currently up in the air after the site was sold. While it may reopen in the future for scuba diving, the aqua park is unlikely to return.
Homestead Crater.

Emerald Bay Maritime Heritage Trail

Emerald Bay Maritime Heritage Trail

www.parks.ca.gov

Georgia Aquarium

 

[Fishdip]

I also understand there is now a charter operator that takes divers out on the lake. Just need to watch the altitude.

Found it and they operate at CA price lol "The cost for diving on the Payah Kun is $225 each"

 

[kaiserb]

Is the Texas missile silo still open? Or is there more than one of these? Diving Deep in the Heart of Texas – Valhalla Nuclear Missile Silo

Just dove Valhalla 2 weeks ago. Great trip, and yes they are still open but you need to have a dive shop reserve the place as it is not a "show up and dive" type of site

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

The Bodega Bay, CA jetties are cool, there’s an inner jetty and an outer jetty. Each one is accessible from a different land mass. The outer one generally has less people crawling all over it, fishing, crabbing, etc. no one dives it so it’s one of those off the radar places. Lot’s of big lingcod and lot’s of big rock crabs on the outer jetty. The inner jetty on the Doran Park side is a waste of time. There are juvenile California sea lions that will buzz you on the inside of the outer jetty. Just don’t get caught diving on the inside of the jetties by the coast guard if they happen to be cruising by. They will get their panties all up in a wad over divers in the channel. I stay down the whole time so nobody knows I’m there. There is no law that says a person can’t dive along the jetties. I’m along the jetty wall down in the boulders away from all the boat traffic so I don’t know why they get so weird about it.

The docks at Spud Point Marina in Bodega Bay is another spot nobody would consider. I’ve dived under the docks cruising along under the walkways upside down. After a while you get the sense that you are right side up and your bubbles are going down, kinda trippy.
There are lots of sponges, worms, anemones, mussels, even small abalone and some scallops.
I’ve also seen nudibranchs. Just remember that right is left and vice versa. It’s easy to get confused.
People walk along the docks and have no clue you are right underneath them. I scared the crap out of a lady once when I suddenly came out from under the dock and surfaced right next to her. Ha ha, sorry! The big bull sea lions weighing 900 lbs coming up checking you out can be interesting and a little intimidating, but I’ve never been harassed.

 

[covediver]

I see a dive shop has sceduled someone to do a dive on the Matanuska Glacier. Not sure what is involved with that. I have hiked the glacier several times and there are ponds, crevacies, and moulins. Neve had a burning desire to hike up there with gear. They might go in by helicopter. In any event, that would be a unique dive.

 

[covediver]

Found it and they operate at CA price lol "The cost for diving on the Payah Kun is $225 each"

I think that is for a two tank dive, which is about the going rate on Hawaii's Kona Coast for a two-tank morning dive.

 

[Fishdip]

I see a dive shop has sceduled someone to do a dive on the Matanuska Glacier. Not sure what is involved with that. I have hiked the glacier several times and there are ponds, crevacies, and moulins. Neve had a burning desire to hike up there with gear. They might go in by helicopter. In any event, that would be a unique dive.

That would be a cool dive

 

[Fishdip]

Bonne Terre mine onne Terre, MO

Loch low minn quarry (for the paddle fish.) Athens, TN

*Homestead Crater Midway UT

Matanuska Glacie Alaska

Blue water park Pelham Alabama "requires dive buddy."

*Blue Hole Santa Rosa MN

*Perch Lake Santa Rosa MN

Blue Grotto Dive Resort Williston, FL

Athens Scuba Park Athens, TX

Valhalla Missile Silo Abilene, TX "Have to do it with a dive shop"​

 

[Bersa222]

Valhalla near Abilene TX is back open and was a lot of fun. There is a TX dive shop heading there in mid May, a spot can be reserved through them. Dives are limited here as the site is not always open. Unique site, fun dive, great host, but so many stairs. The water is cool and dark but I would love to return.

 

[UofMI_Divegeek]

Sadly, this is no longer available 'cause it was an interesting and fun experience. It certainly was unique. Many moons ago I took an Underwater Basket Weaver specialty certification.

This clever marketing specialty turned out to be a very good course as the basket had to be assembled in mid-water without touching the surface or the bottom. So, it was a superb buoyancy control exercise.

The basket I made (image below) holds the patches I received in my early certification days.

Before I retired as a biochemist, my Underwater Basket Weaver Specialty Certificate was proudly displayed in my U of Michigan office (above a framework molecular model of a dopamine D2 receptor and my 3D molecular modeling workstation).

I hope some enterprising instructor would offer this again as it is superb marketing, especially in a college town.