You are 2 hours from Barcelona NY. Home of Osprey dive charters and some of the best wreck diving in the world. You are 6 hours from Lake Huron which has probably the absolute best wreck diving in the world. Why would you drive 2.5 hours to a quarry when you can drive two and hang out with Captain John?Diving local might work in Sonora California, but I live in Ohio. The water in my yard gets pretty deep in the Spring as the snow melts, but not deep enough.
Quarry dives are a over 2 hours and 30 minutes driving each way if I stop to pick up a tank and return it. The water is cold, the quarries are small, and there isn't much to see.