Hello from SE Washington!

[KOMPRESSOR]

But if I were you, I'd make the drive up to lake Coeur d' Alene (1.5 hours) for some diving there, lots of wrecks.

You got me very curious here now... What kind of wrecks are out there in this lake?

 

[murphdivers286]

Welcome to the board. You have already met several new friends. If there is anything I can do specific for you, just give me a PM.

 

[SalmonMan]

Hi Rick,
I am in the middle of the move to AK, so no diving for awhile. And a little overwhelmed by the move. I'll be driving to Anchorage from St.Louis, where my wife is now. It'll be October before I get to King Salmon. Don't know what the dive opportunities will be, but that'll be the first time I'll have to even consider dives. Hope I can find air. Puget Sound, from what I've heard, is some great diving. Sorry I never made it out that way, too busy paying bills, saving money, packing.

Pomeroy. I actually know where that is. The Snake River is so slow north/west of you that there might be some diving there.

But if I were you, I'd make the drive up to lake Coeur d' Alene (1.5 hours) for some diving there, lots of wrecks. PM me for a dive sometime!

It's only a 5 hour drive to Pudet Sound and some great diving. I'm here right now, writing this from the Motel. Did a night dive last night, two dives today and two more tomorrow, then back to Spokane. A three day weekend means lots of great diving.

You're isolated, but you're not out of the game!

Welcome to ScubaBoard!!

 

[Rick Inman]

You got me very curious here now... What kind of wrecks are out there in this lake?

Lake Coeur d' Alene is a large body of water, and was once a major waterway for logging and mining, as well as a major recreation area (late 1800's on). There are old steamboats, paddle boats and ferries and barges and structures I can't tell you what they are. There are bunches of small recreational boats and canoes, new and old. There's a boat at 120' sunk for divers by a local shop. There's an old steam boat that ran aground and sits in water 15' to 45' deep. There are easy wrecks for new recreational divers, and advanced technical dives I've never done. Our own Gary D. says there are ancient Indian BBQ pits in shallow water, but I can't find them. There is so much stuff in that lake, no one could dive it all. Rodales Magazine dubbed the lake, The Bermuda Triangle of the Northwest, because of all the wrecks.

There is rumored to be a stash of old silver bars somewhere on the bottom, and the owner of one local dive shop spent years and lots of money looking for them, unsuccessfully, until he retired and sold the shop.

There are other dives here too, like under the docks, or a couple of nice walls. There's bass and trout and sunfish and salmon. In the fall, we dive the salmon spawn and there are thousands of salmon all around you from 0' to 100'.

Nothing beats the real ocean, and I happily drive 4+ hours to dive Puget Sound as often as I can. But if you have to be landlocked, lake Coeur d' Alene is a fine body of water to have in your back yard.

Oh, and because of it's size and depth, it doesn't freeze in the winter, so we can dive it all year when the other lakes are solid ice.

I've been diving it for a least once a week for a few years now, and I'm never bored.