Most Underrated Dive Destinations

[manni-yunk]

NJ

(Shhh... don't tell anyone!)

Agreed - funny how people dont realize how good the diving is here. With so many historical wrecks the dive spots are unlimited. When we are loading up my boat we get all sorts of looks from people at the marina like we are nuts!!!

 

[greatlakeswreckdiver]

Just got back from the Straits of Mackinac. As far as wreck diving goes - AWESOME. Many in tact wrecks in the 70 - 120' range. If you can't get on the water because it is too rough, you can always take a trip to Mackinac Island for the day or hit Mullett Lake to look for bottles or play with the fish.

 

[scubadada]

Portobelo, Panama (Caribbean). My only tropical dive vacation so far. I imagine many will disagree with me, but I have my reasons.

Sorry, I just dived Portobelo. If you have a busisness trip to Panama City and want to dive for a day or 2, Portobelo is just fine. This is much better than working. Unfortunately, the diving is inferior to all other Caribbean diving I've done in Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cozumel, Turks and Caicos, Bonaire, and Curacao. Key Largo and Boynton Beach/Jupiter are also significantly better.

Good diving, Craig

 

[bvanant]

Los Angeles maybe, or Santa Monica
Bill

 

[reo]

Puget Sound. British Columbia gets a fair amount of magazine attention, but we have most of the things they have, and we can see them all from shore . . . There's a dive site in Seattle that's directly across from the downtown skyline, where I have seen seven Giant Pacific Octopuses on one dive. Get out of the water, clean up a bit, and have dinner in the city -- where else can you do that?

Another vote for Puget Sound! When I first moved here from Florida, I thought I would be diving a lot less than I did in Florida. I was wrong. I'm diving a lot more here. Shore dives, very economical, all I usually need is an air fill, then I'm good to go.

Lynne, you may recognize some of these characters.

Ron

 

[Centrals]

Philippines

 

[DazedAndConfuzed]

Philippines

yeah, awsome place. don't need to go down to look at the fish. they just dynomite it and the fish floats up.

 

[martinskarin]

Throwing a wild card in:
The Great Wall of China

Never been there, but it looks kinda cool.

 

[vladimir]

Philippines

yeah, awsome place. don't need to go down to look at the fish. they just dynomite it and the fish floats up.

You're painting with a rather broad brush, aren't you? In my first two trips to the Philippines I have seen some great reef, much of it very healthy, some of it pristine. Of course, it's not Rockaway Beach diving--we're not that lucky--but it's not bad diving.

 

[brianthediver]

The Aran Islands on the West coast of Ireland, possibly the best drift dives in the world.