Utah diving

[Aquonox]

I thought Midway Crater was a unique experience. Not a ton to see, but an interesting site nonetheless! I haven’t done a ton of diving around the country yet. Hoping to do some SoCal and Hawaii diving next year.

 

[Linweaver]

I would never dive the Great Salt Lake. It doesn't seem fun. I met someone that did a boat recovery in it and had to wear over 50 lbs of weights. It's also an average of 14 feet deep. My favorite is Fish Lake. It's cold and high altitude diving, but has great visibility and lots of fish.

You are correct. The amount of weight necessary to dive the Great Salt Lake is about twice what is necessary in the ocean. However, the salinity of the lake various much depending on how high the water is, which will change its density, and how much weigh might be necessary. Generally it is not dived unless someone loses something in it. Also, Willard Bay, part of the Lake is fresh water.

Regarding Utah diving, the Crater at Heber is interesting and Sea Base is remarkable, as it has many species of Ocean Life. Someone should do a PhD thesis about that one.

 

[pauldw]

Back in the early 1990's, we used to float the "A" Section of the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam in scuba gear. Floating the river involved having a support raft with some extra air tanks along for the trip. Basically, we'd float with inflated BCDs and snorkel until we saw something we wanted to submerge to look at. Water clarity was amazing. Of course back in those days, I could tolerate the extremely cold water in a 7mil wetsuit. The sizes and numbers of trout were amazing.

I've always wanted to do this. A long time ago I got a job teaching high school in Vernal for a few years. New teachers went there early for an orientation. No one told me that after the morning meetings we'd be floating the river below the dam. So I wasn't exactly dressed for it. But that water was so clear and beautiful! Fish visible all over. Subsequently most of my river time was in Dinosaur, which sure isn't diving. Since then, I saw that there was a dive shop in Vernal that would dive the dam to Little Hole, but the dive shop has closed. More recently when going to Flaming Gorge for a dive, I looked at the road down to the base of the dam, and it was clogged with perhaps millions of cars. That's an unwelcome change. It would also make it harder to get gear down there.