Dive Sites in United States

100 dive sites and underwater attractions

Vermont

General Butler

📍 Burlington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Burlington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 15.24m
wreck

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

📍 South Hero
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Sloop Island Canal Boat

📍 Charlotte
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 44.3127° North, 73.3082° West.

Phoenix

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 44.5495° North, 73.3348° West.

Pot Ash Point Canal Boat

📍 Addison
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

U.S. La Vallee

📍 Burlington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 30.48m
wreck

Maine

SS Polias

📍 St. George
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

California

Ohioan

📍 San Francisco
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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 3056730025

📍 San Francisco
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 11933154482

📍 Malibu
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

SS Monte Carlo

📍 Coronado
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Concrete ship used as offshore gambling hub during prohibition, sent aground during a storm and abandoned.

Ex-Tortuga

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Del Rio

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 7024798825

📍 San Diego
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Aggi

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Pomona

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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)

📍 San Diego
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Cold War Royal Canadian Navy destroyer escort sunk as an artificial reef.

South Carolina

Michigan

John Wesley Shipwreck

📍 Harbor Beach
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wreck of the SS Algoma

📍 Houghton Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Presque Isle Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

The steamer Albany, carrying 200 passe

Wreck of the SS Monarch

📍 Houghton Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Glen Arbor Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wreck of the PS Cumberland

📍 Eagle Harbor
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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)

📍 Port Huron
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wreck of the SS America

📍 Eagle Harbor Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Hayes Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Sitka wreck

📍 Burt Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Marine City

📍 Haynes Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

http://www.gendisasters.com/michigan/5478/alcona%2C-mi-marine-city-steamer-fire%2C-aug-1880

Washington

Dive Site 30476398

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 7131949393

📍 Raymond
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 30476917

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 5309577925

📍 DuPont
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 7131949394

📍 Raymond
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 5886001218

📍 La Conner
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Florida

USS Massachusetts

🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

US Navy pre-dreadnaught battleship, served in the Spanish American War and the First World War, sunk as a target in 1921.

Maple Leaf

📍 Jacksonville
🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

Catherine

🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 30.3181° North, 87.2831° West.

Dive Site 6554490661

📍 Fort Pierce
🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

San Pablo

🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 30.1884° North, 87.2182° West.

Nimbus

📍 Sanford
🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck
wreck

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).

Maryland

Dive Site 9469091418

📍 Annapolis
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Ashland

📍 Baltimore
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Fort Scott

📍 Baltimore
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 10913216842

📍 Madison
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 2396505497

📍 Glen Burnie
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 11375659766

📍 Baltimore
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Missouri

Gravel Barge

📍 Wildwood
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

New York

Dive Site 6027846684

📍 New York
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 5902023200

📍 New York
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9286505827

📍 New York
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9243708083

📍 New York
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 5902030738

📍 Island Park
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Hawaii

Wisconsin

SS Appomattox

📍 Milwaukee
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Town of Bayfield
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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.

Massachusetts

Charles S. Haight

📍 Rockport
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

California

📍 Rockport
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

U.S.S Yankee Exempt Site

📍 Fairhaven
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9528248000

📍 Nantucket
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Guam

SMS Cormoran

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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 Lugano

🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

USS Alligator Shipwreck

🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

The third USS Alligator was a schooner in the United States Navy.

Arizona

Paddle Wheel Wreck

📍 Lake Havasu City
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Illinois

Northern Mariana Islands

Dive Site 11834059733

📍 Songsong
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 11834059732

📍 Songsong
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Kansas

Arabia

📍 Kansas City
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

North Carolina

USS Huron Shipwreck

📍 Nags Head
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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.

SS Richmond Shipwreck

📍 Salvo
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wooden freighter loaded with flour, zinc, and lead sank in a storm.

Dive Site 2002773374

📍 Glenfield
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Connecticut

1954

📍 Middletown
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Virginia

Dive Site 7977872983

📍 Newport News
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Oregon

New Carissa

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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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