...in North America with "76.2", just after the Florida Springs ("90.3"), and well ahead of BC; Monterey, CA; and southeastern FL with "65", "57.6", and "43.2" respectively. If the score means anything, it's higher than those of the Caymans and USVIs in the Caribbean category, and higher than Hawaii, Malaysia, and the Red Sea in the Pacific category.
I use the question mark because the Florida springs are the only other place on this list I have dived and would give a top score to for shore diving (the other would be the cenotes in Mexico, which surprisingly is not on this list). First of all, I would say that comparing freshwater springs/caverns/caves is a bit of apples-to-oranges to beach shore diving, and there is a good amount of personal taste in preferring one over the other and vice-versa. What I am dying to get a better idea of are what are these amazing shore dives that earned this ranking.
My own experience in NE shore diving includes Dutch Springs (which was nice the first half-dozen times I went, but now I'm bored to tears of it), Beach 8th street (once was enough), and Brownstone park (nice, but probably already saw what there is to see of the beautiful walls there). I've heard of Ponquogue bridge, secret beach, etc., and some of the other ones listed in this sub-forum, but are there other big ones I am missing that give NE shore diving this world-class ranking? I know wreck valley deserves a world-class ranking for boat diving, but I'm definitely keen on knowing what more easy and flexible diving there is to be done without the schedule and space constraints that boat diving is faced with...
I use the question mark because the Florida springs are the only other place on this list I have dived and would give a top score to for shore diving (the other would be the cenotes in Mexico, which surprisingly is not on this list). First of all, I would say that comparing freshwater springs/caverns/caves is a bit of apples-to-oranges to beach shore diving, and there is a good amount of personal taste in preferring one over the other and vice-versa. What I am dying to get a better idea of are what are these amazing shore dives that earned this ranking.
My own experience in NE shore diving includes Dutch Springs (which was nice the first half-dozen times I went, but now I'm bored to tears of it), Beach 8th street (once was enough), and Brownstone park (nice, but probably already saw what there is to see of the beautiful walls there). I've heard of Ponquogue bridge, secret beach, etc., and some of the other ones listed in this sub-forum, but are there other big ones I am missing that give NE shore diving this world-class ranking? I know wreck valley deserves a world-class ranking for boat diving, but I'm definitely keen on knowing what more easy and flexible diving there is to be done without the schedule and space constraints that boat diving is faced with...
