Scuba Point Closed

[Joe-Diver]

I just got an email from an Instructor trying to plan a deep dive for AOW....he called Scuba Point and was told they are closed and sold.

And so dies a Texas diving landmark......

I guess we knew it would happen, but last I had heard the deal was off the table. Guess that's it then.

 

[texdiveguy]

I just got an email from an Instructor trying to plan a deep dive for AOW....he called Scuba Point and was told they are closed and sold.

And so dies a Texas diving landmark......

I guess we knew it would happen, but last I had heard the deal was off the table. Guess that's it then.

Its not real new news....been closed for sometime according to the previous owners.

 

[Joe-Diver]

Yeah, but that was only the usual closing for the winter....I was hoping they'd open up again after that last deal fell through....but now it's sold so.....

 

[Ryanh1985]

That sucks!!

 

[texdiveguy]

Yep I had enjoyed a 'few' dives there over the past years....nice folks also.....I think the lake flooding did them in.

 

[Guba]

The story the owners told me last fall was that they were selling the location, but that they'd have a shop "down the road a bit". They'll still have an air station and they'll offer dive charters on the lake. Still, instructors will have lost a great place for those AOW sessions, and a north/central dive icon will have disappeared. Saddening, isn't it?

 

[parrotheaddiver]

Is Scuba Point at Possum Kingdon???? I was certified there (but not by that shop) in 1977........I haven't lived in the area in many years.....sad to hear that....

 

[Joe-Diver]

Is Scuba Point at Possum Kingdom????

Yes....I've been diving there since I was certified in 1983.....and in fact had been going there since the mid 70's....we'd stop in there on weekends with the boat. SP has been a Texas diving icon since 1959. It is a significant loss for us.

 

[jac]

I think the lake flooding did them in.

i think it was the 13 or 14 million dollars that did them in.

 

[jac]

oh, my bad, wrong place.