Suggestions

[scarefaceDM]

New Divers and experienced ones..

Brockville ontario, Thousand Islands. Jewel of the Saint Lawrence River.

On the US side.
The Keystorm and the America...nice wrecks and good OW dives.

On the Canadian side. These are good open water dives and a good start to your wreck diving experience.

These two are from a charter boat.
Lillie Parson. 47 foot depth plus...good for OW divers and is also a very nice drift dive. Robert Gaskin, 60 foot depth. Nice wreck.

Shore dives.
Rothesy, 28-32 feet. Nice wreck, but she is falling apart. Easy shore dive. Also a little further up. Prescot marine park...simple dive a nice place to do some training. ANd a little higher up is the Conestoga. In 28 feet of water..nice wreck which is directly off shore..easy entry and exit..nice little current to drift along...

Also Lake Ontario...

Remeber if your diving these water..it is COld...so proper thermal protection is a must...your 3mm shorty is not gonna cut it.

 

[Scuba Brian]

Get some more training AOW, Wreck specialty, then start with some easier wreck dives. Working your way up to the best wreck destination IN MY OPINION Truk lagoon.

 

[EvaL]

Welcome to the board.
Like DandyDon says, wreck dives may not be for the newly certified diver, especially if it's deep or you're planning on going inside a wreck (definite no-no unless you're a trained wreck diver). To be a wreck diver, you'll need training + dives and equipment such as reels, lights and redundant air source etc.
If you love warm water like me, Key Largo has several good wrecks from the Benwood (entirely broken up) to coastguard cutters Duane and Bibb to the newly sunk and hurricane-uprighted Spiegel Grove.
For cold water, there's San Diego's Wreck Alley with the Yukon and Ruby E. wrecks, Rhode Island has the U-853. Also there are some very well preserved wrecks in the great lakes (due to cold water temps and less disturbance). Note: these are advanced, deep dives.
In between these, there are the wrecks of South Carolina in Barracuda Alley (barges, ships etc).
This is just for the US. And then there's the rest of the world - a huge number of well-known wrecks all over the Caribbean (Bahamas, Caymans etc) and Indian Ocean (Red Sea, Maldives) and Pacific Ocean(Truk, Bali, Phuket etc). And if you train to be a really deep wreck diver and love WWI wrecks, you can check out the wrecks of Bikini Atoll, HMS Repulse or HMS Prince of Wales in Malaysia.
Dive safely.

 

[MBH]

I'm with DandyDon on this one. If it was me, and actually this is my intended plan; I'll get quite a few more easy dives under my belt. Get my buoyancy and trim in good form, polish up my air sharing drills, OOA ascents, become "one" with my gear, develope better buddy watching skills, and just generally become a better diver.

I figure that as a new diver I need to have the basics down pat before I attempt any wreck dives and then only with an advanced wreck diver for a buddy. I don't need to be struggling with basic skills while diving in a wreck enviornment.

But....that's just me.

 

[Jimmer]

I don't know what your area has as far as shipwrecks goes, but there should be no reason why you can't dive some shallow wrecks, non penetration, and just enjoy the view as you work on getting your skills down pat.

 

[MBH]

Here's a reason why a just certified diver shouldn't be doing wreck dives. It is very likely that a "just certified" diver will have at best, marginal buoyancy skills, high SAC, and maybe a few other skills that are not second nature just yet.

Imagine if you will an OW diver with just 4 dives to their credit, diving a wreck, struggling with their buoyancy, sucking down air, and drifting into a tangle of monofiliment and treble hooks.

 

[DandyDon]

Ok, I did not remember the depths of the ones I did from this list...

New Divers and experienced ones..

Brockville ontario, Thousand Islands. Jewel of the Saint Lawrence River.

On the US side.
The Keystorm and the America...nice wrecks and good OW dives.

On the Canadian side. These are good open water dives and a good start to your wreck diving experience.

These two are from a charter boat.
Lillie Parson. 47 foot depth plus...good for OW divers and is also a very nice drift dive. Robert Gaskin, 60 foot depth. Nice wreck.

Shore dives.
Rothesy, 28-32 feet. Nice wreck, but she is falling apart. Easy shore dive. Also a little further up. Prescot marine park...simple dive a nice place to do some training. ANd a little higher up is the Conestoga. In 28 feet of water..nice wreck which is directly off shore..easy entry and exit..nice little current to drift along...

Also Lake Ontario...

Remeber if your diving these water..it is COld...so proper thermal protection is a must...your 3mm shorty is not gonna cut it.

But the OP is in NH - probly looking at local wrecks, square profiles, challenging conditions, below 60 ft, and even in Key Largo - after he does a junk pile called a wreck, he'll want to do the artificial reefs like the Grove, etc.

I stand by my suggestion, which is not much to ask really: "Get a few dozen dives, your Aow & Nitrox cards, and by then you'll know more where you're going." Could he do the Key Largo wrecks on air, without Aow? Sure, there are Ops that will take him. I've had Air divers for boat-pick buddies on those wrecks, cutting my dive time by 1/3 even tho I was on Nitrox. I really try to avoid the boats that will take an OW Air diver to the wrecks, tho.

 

[Jimmer]

Well it depends entirely on the wreck in question, the diver in question. His instructor could make a good suggestion on that. We regularly take new divers out to a few wrecks, but these are net/line free, very shallow, in the sand. Not your typical Great Lake wreck.

 

[scarefaceDM]

ROAD Trip....he did ask for sugestions.

The Keystorm can be a good starter. The OW diver would be escorted by a DM or a more experienced diver to not blow the 60 foot depth. But the Keystorm starts at around 25-30 feet or so and be well explored at around 50-60 feet.

Come to think of it. The America would not be the optimal choice...

The others mentioned are perfect begginer wrecks..easy profiles and a good starter to wreck diving.

Ok, I did not remember the depths of the ones I did from this list...

But the OP is in NH - probly looking at local wrecks, square profiles, challenging conditions, below 60 ft, and even in Key Largo - after he does a junk pile called a wreck, he'll want to do the artificial reefs like the Grove, etc.

I stand by my suggestion, which is not much to ask really: "Get a few dozen dives, your Aow & Nitrox cards, and by then you'll know more where you're going." Could he do the Key Largo wrecks on air, without Aow? Sure, there are Ops that will take him. I've had Air divers for boat-pick buddies on those wrecks, cutting my dive time by 1/3 even tho I was on Nitrox. I really try to avoid the boats that will take an OW Air diver to the wrecks, tho.

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Well it depends entirely on the wreck in question, the diver in question. His instructor could make a good suggestion on that. We regularly take new divers out to a few wrecks, but these are net/line free, very shallow, in the sand. Not your typical Great Lake wreck.

That's why the one's I mentioned in Tobermory are so great, 20 feet of water and shallower for the most part. Granted some are pretty busted up but they still have some really cool features that appeal to new divers. The Sweepstakes is probably the best of the bunch for a new diver, calm water, deck is at a depth of about 6 feet with a bottom at about 20 feet and it's still pretty whole.
Ber :lilbunny: