Dive Sites in Central Texas

[halocline]

Howdy!

I am part of the Texas A&M-College Station Scuba Club. Lately we have been going to the same basic dive sites, usually Blue Lagoon and Athens Scuba Park, but occasionally the Comal River to drift a bit...What recommendations do you have for sites in Texas? We are located in college station, but we are up for a road trip and/or overnight camping if its a longer drive!

One worthwhile but ambitious activity would be to take the aquarena springs science diver class as a group. You might even be able to negotiate a discount. It's certainly my favorite dive site in central tx. It's a nice place for a school group especially because it's educationally oriented, and the diving involves maintaining the spring.

A flower garden trip would be a fun group trip as well, but it isn't cheap and it is fairly advanced diving. Go in the summer when it's calm and the gulf is nice and warm. 4-5 dives to 60-70 ft per day is not something you want to do in cold water. When conditions are good, it's a really fun place to dive.

 

[islandboysrule]

Spring Lake in San Marcos - do the PADI course there and then you can volunteer dive all year (73F water with 100ft viz)

 

[RayfromTX]

The only problem with Spring Lake is that to dive to 19 feet you need a shovel.

 

[pepperbelly]

Back in the early '70s our dive club made a trip to San Marcos. I remember snorkeling in the river. It was very clear. Some of the grownups went diving but it wasn't really deep enough.
Can you still dive the river?
I remember being right by the waterfall and not far off the highway.
For a 15 year old boy being there during the college spring break was very interesting.

 

[NAM001]

I'm from Chicago...what do you mean by *sharp* thermocline? I'm used to diving in a 7mm!

I have been there and the water is 77-80 and at 15 ft in a matter of a coule of feet it droppd to 70 and thn at 20 there is another and at 25 there is another and you are well in the 60's. I have never been below 25 ft in Clear springs wit a 3/2 shorty