aircraft underwater

[oversea]

I dove the corsair f4u ditched in 1946 off of oahu, hawaii.

 

[recon_1996]

Theres a F-14? Phantom in the Carson Nevada Marina. They sank it. The cockpit has bars welded over it so you can't sit in it. Its in 40 feet of water if I remember right and its very slitty on the bottom, so get there early or its blacked out from all the other divers.

 

[XJae]

Sean326 once bubbled...


yeah and they have a huge sikorsky cargo chopper suspended about 50' down in about 70' feet of water so it's like it is still flying just submerged, very fun very cool.

I dive this place most weekends, it's a divers amusment park, great people very well run, check it out

http://dutchsprings.com/

this is definately one of the best at our local quarry.
a little far from melbourne.
http://dutchsprings.com/aircraft_subm.html#25

there's a corsair and a twin prop beech off ohau that are nice.
http://www.islanddivershawaii.com/divesites.htm

 

[Scuba Jim]

Blackjack, a B17 bomber in Milne Bay, PNG
P38 lightning in Milne Bay, PNG
B25 bomber in Madang, PNG
Zero & Mitsubishi biplane in Rabaul, PNG
Avenger & Helldivers, Bikini Atoll
Zero & Zeke floatplane in Palau
A DC3 in Honduras
Something in Turks & Caicos - a twin propped thingy if I recall

Err... think that's it.

 

[Virus]FSLR2[]

We have some here in my back yard!

This is pretty awesome to hit, would like to do it at night. Would seem to be a pretty eerie dive in the dark.

http://www.scubadiving.com/US/jacksonville.shtml

http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/1997/0997/burial.pdf


Had the Persian Gulf air war gone horribly wrong, the result would have looked something like St. Augustine's Intruder Reef. Thirty decommissioned A-6 Intruder attack bombers lie in a chaotic jumble at 110 feet. Some of these planes did, in fact, fly over Baghdad in the war, leading the attack and drawing out enemy fire. Now stacked on top of one another, wingless and with cockpits and bomb bays agape, these warbirds have a new mission: drawing out game fish.

Intruder Reef is one of the newest artificial reefs off northeast Florida, an area better known for history and white-sand beaches than diving. But decades of reef-building programs and natural limestone ledges have created a vast diver's playground in the Atlantic waters off Jacksonville and St. Augustine.

-=V=-

 

[Tommygun53]

There is supposed to be a Learjet 23A about 4 miles out from racine wisconsin. N1021B and owned by Mack truck company.It dissappeared from radar and 7 crew were lost. I dont have the loran numbers and have never dove it.

There is also supposed to be a b-52 off of charlevoix,michigan. 7crew lost . also have no loran on that one either.

Other than that Ive dove the Grumman at Gilboa several times and will be there this weekend also. Both saturday and sunday.A friend of mine is doing his advanced class there so Im just tagging along.

Tom

 

[Wendryn]

There's an F-4 Phantom in Sparks (the city next to Reno, Nevada) in the Sparks Marina. I've heard that vis is very bad, but a few friends have been diving there nonetheless.

Here is an exerpt from an article on it:
The newest diving location in the area, the Sparks Marina, has an average depth of 60 feet, reaching nearly 120 feet at its deepest. An F-4 Phantom jetfighter was sunk, providing divers something to explore at the bottom of the marina.

The diving conditions are more suited to an advanced diver because of the low visibility, colder water temperatures and steep slope.

--Wendryn

 

[Cactusdiver1]

Off the coast of Aruba they have a DC-3 that we dove in approximately 80+ feet. It used to be intact but was tossed and broken during one of their hurricanes. It was my first airplane wreck, and I thought it was pretty cool. Here's a picture of our dive buddies Steve & Marci..Steve's in the cockpit..the fact that he was stuck is a secret and I can't tell.

 

[Cactusdiver1]

The picture didn't attach the first time..here's try #2

 

[XJae]

XJae once bubbled...

this is definately one of the best at our local quarry.
a little far from melbourne.
http://dutchsprings.com/aircraft_subm.html#25

Just recently took some pics to add.
Sikorsky helicopter