Dive Sites in United States
100 dive sites and underwater attractions
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Vermont
General Butler
The General Butler was a schooner-rigged sailing canal boat that plied the waters of Lake Champlain and the Champlain Canal in the United States states of Vermont and New York. Built in 1862 and named for American Civil War General Benjamin Franklin Butler, she sank after striking the Burlington Breakwater in 1876, while carrying a load of marble.
Burlington Bay Horse Ferry
The Burlington Bay Horse Ferry is a shipwreck in Lake Champlain off Burlington, Vermont, United States. It is the only known example of a turntable horse ferry, a ship type that was common on United States waterways in the mid-19th century. The wreck is a Vermont State Historic Site, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
Providence Island Canal Sloop
Sloop Island Canal Boat
This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 44.3127° North, 73.3082° West.
Phoenix
This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 44.5495° North, 73.3348° West.
Pot Ash Point Canal Boat
U.S. La Vallee
Maine
SS Polias
Alaska
MV Vashon
Polar Bear
Boat Graveyard
California
Ohioan
The SS City of Rio de Janeiro was an iron-hulled steam-powered passenger ship, launched in 1878, which sailed between San Francisco and various Asian Pacific ports. On 22 February 1901, the vessel sank after striking a submerged reef at the entry to San Francisco Bay while inward bound from Hong Kong. Of the approximately 220 passengers and crew on board, fewer than 85 people survived the sinking, while 135 others were killed in the catastrophe.
Dive Site 4322374489
Dive Site 3056730025
Dive Site 11933154482
SS Monte Carlo
Concrete ship used as offshore gambling hub during prohibition, sent aground during a storm and abandoned.
Ex-Tortuga
Del Rio
S.S. Point Reyes
Dive Site 7024798825
Jane L. Stanford
The Smartest Sailing Vessel Out of San Francisco: Brigantine Galilee
Aggi
Dive Site 621619675
Pomona
The Pomona was a fast packet clipper ship constructed in 1856 for Howland and Frothingham. She operated for just over two and a half years transporting emigrants and cargo from Liverpool, England to New York City. Pomona sank in the early morning of April 28, 1859 after a navigation error caused the ship to strike the Irish coast. 424 of the 448 people on board died.
HMCS Yukon (DDE 265)
Cold War Royal Canadian Navy destroyer escort sunk as an artificial reef.
South Carolina
Dive Site 11971993073
Michigan
John Wesley Shipwreck
Wreck of the SS Algoma
Algoma was a screw steamer built in 1883. She sank off Mott Island near Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1885 and some of her remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Shipwreck of the Albany
The steamer Albany, carrying 200 passe
Wreck of the SS Monarch
SS Monarch was a passenger-package freighter built in 1890 that operated on the Great Lakes. She was sunk off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1906 and the remains of her wreck and cargo are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Flying Cloud
Wreck of the PS Cumberland
The Cumberland was a wooden-hulled side paddlewheeler built in 1871; it was wrecked off the shore of Isle Royale in Lake Superior in 1877 and the remains are still on the lake bottom. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
A. R. Colborn and Crane (Wrack)
Wreck of the SS America
America was a packet boat transporting passengers, mail, and packages between settlements along the North Shore of Lake Superior, an inland sea in central North America. Built in 1898, America sank in Washington Harbor off the shore of Isle Royale in 1928, where the hull still remains. The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Jacob
Sitka wreck
Marine City
http://www.gendisasters.com/michigan/5478/alcona%2C-mi-marine-city-steamer-fire%2C-aug-1880
Washington
Dive Site 30476398
Dive Site 7131949393
Dive Site 30476917
Dive Site 5309577925
Dive Site 7131949394
Dive Site 5886001218
Blake Island Reef
Florida
USS Massachusetts
US Navy pre-dreadnaught battleship, served in the Spanish American War and the First World War, sunk as a target in 1921.
Soule Barge-Gulf Power Towers
Maple Leaf
Dive Site 7159518672
Catherine
This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 30.3181° North, 87.2831° West.
Dive Site 6554490661
San Pablo
This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 30.1884° North, 87.2182° West.
Nimbus
USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg
USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg (T-AGM-10) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship in the United States Navy in World War II named in honor of U.S. Army Chief of Engineers Harry Taylor. She served for a time as army transport USAT General Harry Taylor, and was reacquired by the navy in 1950 as USNS General Harry Taylor (T-AP-145).
Vortex Spring
Maryland
Dive Site 9469091418
Dive Site 5762527367
Ashland
Dive Site 9864106607
Fort Scott
Dive Site 232991381
Dive Site 10913216842
Dive Site 2396505497
Dive Site 11375659766
Missouri
Gravel Barge
New York
Dive Site 6027846684
Dive Site 5902023200
Dive Site 9286505827
Dive Site 9243708083
Dive Site 5902030738
Hawaii
Middle Reef
Flying Sea Cliffs
The Back Side
Tako Flats
Wisconsin
SS Appomattox
SS Appomattox was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter that ran aground on Lake Michigan, off Atwater Beach off the coast of Shorewood, Wisconsin in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States in 1905. On January 20, 2005 the remnants of the Appomattox were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Wreck of the SS Sevona
Sevona was a steel-hulled lake freighter that sank in Lake Superior off the coast of Sand Island in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The wreckage site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
Pretoria Shipwreck
Massachusetts
Charles S. Haight
California
U.S.S Yankee Exempt Site
Dive Site 9528248000
Guam
SMS Cormoran
SMS Cormoran or SMS Cormoran II was a German armed merchant raider that was originally a German-built Russian merchant vessel named Ryazan. The ship was active in the Pacific Ocean during World War I. Built in 1909, she was captured by the German light cruiser SMS Emden on 4 August 1914 and converted into a raider at the German colony Kiautschou. She was forced to seek port at Apra Harbor on the US territory of Guam on 10 December 1914.
Other Locations
The Mandalay
Indra (Wrack)
The Lugano
USS Alligator Shipwreck
The third USS Alligator was a schooner in the United States Navy.
Arizona
Paddle Wheel Wreck
Illinois
Dive Site 12569314800
Northern Mariana Islands
Dive Site 11834059733
Dive Site 11834059732
Kansas
Arabia
North Carolina
USS Huron Shipwreck
USS Huron was an iron-hulled gunboat of the United States Navy. She was a screw steamer with full-rig auxiliary sail, built by John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania from 1873 to 1875 and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1875.
Dive Site 7546621120
SS Richmond Shipwreck
The SS Richmond was formerly the blockade runner Blenheim, built in 1848 by the firm of Tod and MacGregor, in Glasgow, Scotland.
Pennsylvania
Dean Richmond
Wooden freighter loaded with flour, zinc, and lead sank in a storm.
Dive Site 2002773374
Connecticut
1954
Virginia
Dive Site 7977872983
Oregon
New Carissa
MV New Carissa was a freighter that ran aground and broke apart on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States, during a storm in February 1999. An attempt to tow the bow section of the ship out to sea failed when the tow line broke, and the bow was grounded again. Eventually, the bow was successfully towed out to sea and sunk. The stern section remained on the beach for over nine years until it was dismantled and removed in 2008.
About Diving in United States
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