List your favorite Texas dive sites....

[Blackhawk9898]

Clear Springs Scuba Park (http://www.clearspringsscubapark.com/) is a 22 acre spring fed lake (an old quarry, spring fed, but no outlet) just northeast of Terrell, Tx. near Dallas.
there's a sunken shark sculpture, a boat, and an old airplane fuselage (mock-up?) to swim thru for the appropriately trained and equipped.

You know that there is also a coffin hidden somewhere in there. See if you can find it. it took me forever

 

[Garyra]

You know that there is also a coffin hidden somewhere in there. See if you can find it. it took me forever

I found the cofin last weekend. There was a line from the plaine to it.

 

[dailywarren]

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/8215/dive_tx.html

Geez, no one listed the Valhalla missile silo! 130' visibility, open year round, buried treasure (sure, it glows a radioactive green but what the hey!). :sick:
Mmmm, that's good fallout!

 

[TwoBitTxn]

Take Exit 191 off of I35 and go West. There is a blinking light at North Park road, turn left.

This is a Corps of Engineers park. Divers get in free Monday thru Thursday. Sorry I didn't ask what the cost was the other days.

When I got there the only other critter there was a Turkey Vulture hanging out in a dead tree. He watched me suit up then left. It was an overcast day with an air temp of about 84*F. The water temp was about 82 or so.

Plenty of covered picnic tables and a few stuffed under trees. I don't recall porta potties or a restroom, but I wasn't really looking for one either.

I made about a 30 min dive with a max depth of 40 feet. I found a nice ledge to drop over. Plenty of over hangs and protrusions. I saw channel cats, sun fish, bass, and a first for me, a carp. The carp wasn't doing anything to improve the 3-10' vis. I did also find a car and a boat.

I surfaced as a class was about to get in. The instructor told me of some platforms and other stuff that her shop had dropped out there.

I also found someones rescue dummy, or the lower half of it. I must admit I was a little rattled at first when I realized I was looking at a human leg. I poked at it a little before I realized it was fake. It had been there awhile.

Flags are mandatory out here. I was warned that tensions between divers and boaters are getting bad and eveyone is being treated the same. Get caught breaking the rules and you receive a citation. The dive site is bouyed off with no wake zone bouys, but thats it.

TwoBit

 

[outlawaggie]

Stetson Bank. Followed closely by the offshore oil platforms.

 

[zendiver1]

The Flower Gardens....nothing else compares.

 

[domino22]

Yep! plus stetson,a rig in blue water,va fogg,liberty ships. But better yet if you are in TX Coz is real close by plane.

 

[BigboyDan]

Retired oil rigs - I'll create a list and post it here.

 

[TwoBitTxn]

Rig trips...

http://www.outtoseaadventures.com/

http://www.nativetexan2.com/index.html

http://www.ultradive.com/

http://www.fishndivers.com/index.html

 

[Goose75]

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/8215/dive_tx.html

Geez, no one listed the Valhalla missile silo! 130' visibility, open year round, buried treasure (sure, it glows a radioactive green but what the hey!). :sick:
Mmmm, that's good fallout!

I've heard there is a silo in the panhandle and another out by Abilene. When I come back to Texas I was planning on visiting one.

I'm surprised no one mentioned New Braunfels. I haven't been there before but it is suposed to be nice, although shallow.