Walls In Our Area

[DawgPaddle]

Good Morning,

I've heard how fascinating it can be to dive a "wall" but don't have a clue where/if any are in this area (lets say within an approximate 100 miles of Philly).

If you know of such a place worth the drive, can you post it please.

Thanks,

 

[BILLB]

I have dove walls in Turks and Caicos and Belize. I hear Cayman has the best in this hemisphere.

Dutch has great walls too. Try the cove with me sometime!

The closes you can come to a wall on the East coast may be ledges of NJ (with low viz) and a couple of spots in the Florida Keys (very tame).

The Bahamas has walls too but I have never been there but I have read they are also worth the trip.

 

[TTSkipper]

Not exactly a day trip from Philly, but there is a nice wall dive in Jamestown, RI in Fort Wetherill State Park, it is at the mouth of a cove where the wall starts about 70 or so feet above the water and drops to about 80 feet below the surface. Once the weather warms up, Ocean State Scuba normally runs free 1 tank guided dives there. This is where I did my 1st OW dive after getting certified in NY in August 2003. I do not have my log book on me, but I seem to remember sponges, and saw some stripers and blackfish. Vis was about 12-15 feet, which probably depends on the tide since it is a cove. The cove is pretty large and on a nice weekend you will find a lot of scuba divers there, alot of the schools use the cove for classes, however the wall is out near the mouth of the cove and away from the students.

TTSkipper