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Some options.
Certainly start at LaJolla Cove. Boat dives also go out to the Point Loma Kelp Beds and there's a small wreck alley. Coronados Islands are a pretty good day trip also. www.divebums.com lists all the boat/shore dive options. You'll likely be doing the best dives on your trip first. (until you get to Florida)
Drive up the coast and hit the dives around Laguna Beach, a couple near Long Beach then into L.A. to pick up I-40 west.
Scuba Shore Diving Site Listing for: California South, USA West You can also dive most of the Channel Islands from Long Beach California Dive Boats : The Official Page
You obviously must know Mead but have you dove Mojave also? DiveShack is an option on the Bullhead City (AZ) side
An option would be to continue south from there and dive Lake Havasu . Scuba T&T is actually based there - they're the permit holder for the B29 dives in Mead. Dive Events and Locations | Scuba Training and Technology
You could continue down to I-10 and dive the one decent lake near Phoenix - Lake Pleasant. It's a regional park and has shore diving - also two shops keep a boat on the lake also. Travel « L.P. Scuba It's a regional park also so camping is allowed. www.arizonascuba.com has some links but it's not an overly active site so post months in advance. In summers there's usually a Thursday night dive at Lake Pleasant.
There's also Saguaro, Canyon and Apache lakes on the east side but they're really more mudholes with a lot of powerboats. From here I'd head north 2 hrs. back to I-40 and continue on.
There's both Homestead Crater and Bonneville SEAbase dives in Utah if you feel like detouring north a day or so. The Seabase looks interesting because they've stocked it with marine tropicals - even sharks.
I believe the only shop near Lake Powell on the AZ side converted to kayaks a few years ago but maybe there's something on the Utah side. I snorkeled there once and it seems like it could be a clear deep dive. But IDK since it's fed by the Colorado.
From there the Santa Rosa Blue Hole in NM is probably the next stop. If you continue east on I-40 - Lake Tenkiller in OK is an option also afaik. Then south into Texas.
American Diving on South Padre dives the Texas Clipper plus there's a dive park nearby. MV Fling out of Freeport to the Flower Gardens also if you could find a safe place to store your rig for the weekend. I see occasional mention of rig diving dayboat options both around Galveston and further east in LA but I have no details. My friend lives near Galveston and takes his 28' boat out to the rigs occasionally but only on pretty calm days. He's never mentioned a shore dive nearby.
hth,
Certainly start at LaJolla Cove. Boat dives also go out to the Point Loma Kelp Beds and there's a small wreck alley. Coronados Islands are a pretty good day trip also. www.divebums.com lists all the boat/shore dive options. You'll likely be doing the best dives on your trip first. (until you get to Florida)
Drive up the coast and hit the dives around Laguna Beach, a couple near Long Beach then into L.A. to pick up I-40 west.
Scuba Shore Diving Site Listing for: California South, USA West You can also dive most of the Channel Islands from Long Beach California Dive Boats : The Official Page
You obviously must know Mead but have you dove Mojave also? DiveShack is an option on the Bullhead City (AZ) side
An option would be to continue south from there and dive Lake Havasu . Scuba T&T is actually based there - they're the permit holder for the B29 dives in Mead. Dive Events and Locations | Scuba Training and Technology
You could continue down to I-10 and dive the one decent lake near Phoenix - Lake Pleasant. It's a regional park and has shore diving - also two shops keep a boat on the lake also. Travel « L.P. Scuba It's a regional park also so camping is allowed. www.arizonascuba.com has some links but it's not an overly active site so post months in advance. In summers there's usually a Thursday night dive at Lake Pleasant.
There's also Saguaro, Canyon and Apache lakes on the east side but they're really more mudholes with a lot of powerboats. From here I'd head north 2 hrs. back to I-40 and continue on.
There's both Homestead Crater and Bonneville SEAbase dives in Utah if you feel like detouring north a day or so. The Seabase looks interesting because they've stocked it with marine tropicals - even sharks.
I believe the only shop near Lake Powell on the AZ side converted to kayaks a few years ago but maybe there's something on the Utah side. I snorkeled there once and it seems like it could be a clear deep dive. But IDK since it's fed by the Colorado.
From there the Santa Rosa Blue Hole in NM is probably the next stop. If you continue east on I-40 - Lake Tenkiller in OK is an option also afaik. Then south into Texas.
American Diving on South Padre dives the Texas Clipper plus there's a dive park nearby. MV Fling out of Freeport to the Flower Gardens also if you could find a safe place to store your rig for the weekend. I see occasional mention of rig diving dayboat options both around Galveston and further east in LA but I have no details. My friend lives near Galveston and takes his 28' boat out to the rigs occasionally but only on pretty calm days. He's never mentioned a shore dive nearby.
hth,
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