Great Lake Diving
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missbeluga:
The lakes offer a variety of diving for a variety of divers. I mentioned checking with the operator first. There are dives in the Alger Preserve (Munising) that are quite suitable for beginners. In fact, on the trip that I was on, a 14-year-old junior diving was quite comfortable on the wreck which is shallow, in sheltered water, and remarkably intact. There are other dives in the lakes that I would not make despite my number of dives and training.
Liveaboards are great, I have done several and will do one this summer, but they are not for everyone, especially people who are on a limited budget and for whom driving to a dive site is the only economic option.
I've never been out with them, but several of my friends have and recommend them n'pursuit.
They might be a few hours away from you, but they usually visit sites that are excellent for beginners. The wrecks are usually shallow around 30' - 60' and despite being shallow, they are quite large.
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They might be a few hours away from you, but they usually visit sites that are excellent for beginners. The wrecks are usually shallow around 30' - 60' and despite being shallow, they are quite large.
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Thread moved to GLWC forum since it's more a question than an intro 
Locally I highly recommend Discovery Dive Charters for newer divers. They run out of Cleveland (Lake Erie) and the dive briefings we had were incredibly detailed. They break their dives down into beginner, intermediate and advanced on the site so it's easier to plan what you are comfortable doing. We dove with them in May and I don't recommend that time of year, the Captain warned us the visibility would be bad and he was right. He said you want to dive that part of Lake Erie in late summer to early fall if you want any kind of visibility; we had 3-17 feet of vis in May.
Tobermory, Ontario has some nice wrecks for beginners as well. We always go with G&S Watersports, they have a large boat with a platform in the back that raises and lowers making it easy to get into and out of the water.
The wrecks I would recommend for new divers are:
"The Tugs", a nice shallow shore dive in Little Tub harbor. We make this the first dive of the trip to "warm up" to the local conditions. NOTE: You need to have a dive flag to dive this site.
"Sweepstakes", "City of Grand Rapids", "W.L. Wetmore" and the other shallow sites listed here are good beginner dives as well.
The "Niagara II" is listed at 90 feet but anyone with good buoyancy control can have a great dive and never go deeper than 60 feet. The "Caroline Rose" is a nice companion dive to the "Niagara II" but I wouldn't recommend it for newer divers unless the buoys are in place so you have a descent/ascent line.
Ber :lilbunny:
Locally I highly recommend Discovery Dive Charters for newer divers. They run out of Cleveland (Lake Erie) and the dive briefings we had were incredibly detailed. They break their dives down into beginner, intermediate and advanced on the site so it's easier to plan what you are comfortable doing. We dove with them in May and I don't recommend that time of year, the Captain warned us the visibility would be bad and he was right. He said you want to dive that part of Lake Erie in late summer to early fall if you want any kind of visibility; we had 3-17 feet of vis in May.
Tobermory, Ontario has some nice wrecks for beginners as well. We always go with G&S Watersports, they have a large boat with a platform in the back that raises and lowers making it easy to get into and out of the water.
The wrecks I would recommend for new divers are:
"The Tugs", a nice shallow shore dive in Little Tub harbor. We make this the first dive of the trip to "warm up" to the local conditions. NOTE: You need to have a dive flag to dive this site.
"Sweepstakes", "City of Grand Rapids", "W.L. Wetmore" and the other shallow sites listed here are good beginner dives as well.
The "Niagara II" is listed at 90 feet but anyone with good buoyancy control can have a great dive and never go deeper than 60 feet. The "Caroline Rose" is a nice companion dive to the "Niagara II" but I wouldn't recommend it for newer divers unless the buoys are in place so you have a descent/ascent line.
Ber :lilbunny:
Marquette Mi offers some great shore dives...Give scott a call at Diver Down Scuba.
www.diverdownscuba.com
www.diverdownscuba.com
I was with Ber on the so mentioned trip with Discovery. The dive briefings were almost like the dive itself, i really don't think that there was anything that they didn't know about the wreck (except where the last one one but I think that was more to do with the inches of vis and not the boat). For my first boat dive it was great, highly recomended.
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