Dive Sites in United States of America
100 dive sites and underwater attractions
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Virginia
SS Roxy
SS Roxy took on water late 2022 during a viscous thunderstorm. It now rests abandoned.
Ship Graveyard
Dive Site 6592331765
Dive Site 6592331761
Dive Site 6592331764
Other Locations
USNS Mission San Miguel (T-AO-129)
WWII oil tanker operated by the US Navy, ran aground and sank on nearby reef.
Triumph Reef
SS Columbia
SS Columbia (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and later the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. Columbia was constructed in 1880 by the John Roach & Sons shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
Spiegel Grove
This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 25.0667° North, 80.3108° West in the Caribbean Sea region.
USCGC Duane (Wreck)
Dive Site 3060499566
Dive Site 10054809276
Alaska
Dive Site 13042322705
Grebe
Florida
Deliverance
P. C. Barge
Dive Site 6187178218
Shipwreck, possibly the remains of a barge used in the dredging and expansion of the local keys.
Windjammer
Three Coal Barges
This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 30.2915° North, 87.2048° West.
Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site
The Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site is the site of the historic shipwreck of an Italian barkentine off the coast of Hutchinson Island in Martin County, Florida, with the nearest landmark being the House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar.
S.S. Inchulva / Delray Wreck (Wrack)
Cudjoe Gardens Marina And Dive Center
Fort Pickens Jetties
Dive Site 9315031740
California
Pismo Beach Dive Shop
Avalon Dive Park
Shaws Cove
bay in Orange County, California, United States of America. Located at 33.5450° North, 117.7987° West.
USS Milwaukee (C-21)
The second USS Milwaukee (C-21) was a St. Louis-class protected cruiser in the United States Navy. Entering service in 1906, Milwaukee was deployed to the Pacific Ocean. On 13 January 1917, while aiding a grounded submarine, the cruiser grounded herself. The ship was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1919.
Point Estero Shipwreck
Goldenhorn
King Philip
Remains of late 1800s clipper, usually buried beneath the sand but sometimes visible at low tide when sand is eroded
USS PC-815
WWII patrol craft infamous for several incidents, sunk in collision with USS Laffey.
SS Avalon
Cuba
S.S. Chickasaw
Winfield Scott
SS Winfield Scott was a sidewheel steamer that transported passengers and cargo between San Francisco, California and Panama in the early 1850s, during the California Gold Rush. After entering a heavy fog off the coast of Southern California on the evening of December 1, 1853, the ship crashed into Middle Anacapa Island. All 450 passengers and crew survived, but the ship was lost.
Sibyl Marston
Dive Site 4203638389
S.S. Garden City
Vermont
O.J. Walker
The O.J. Walker was a cargo schooner that plied the waters of Lake Champlain between New York and Vermont. Built in 1862 in Burlington, Vermont, she hauled freight until sinking off the Burlington coast in a storm in 1895, while carrying a load of brick and tile. The shipwreck, located west of the Burlington Breakwater, is a Vermont State Historic Site, and is accessible to registered divers.
Diamond Island Stone Boat
Water Witch
Water Witch was constructed originally as a steamboat in Otter Creek, Vermont in 1832. In 1835, the Lake Champlain Transportation Company bought her and converted her into a schooner. Piloted by Captain Thomas Mock, who had on board his wife and three children and overloaded with iron ore, Water Witch sank in Lake Champlain during a storm on April 26, 1866. The Mocks′ infant, Roa, was in the cabin, and was lost.
Washington
Osprey
Dive Site 30527385
Dive Site 5835052703
Wreck of a PB4Y bomber
Aproximatly at a depth of 155 feet just off Magnuson Park Swimming Beach lies the wreck of a PB4Y bomber that crashed in 1956 after suffering a malfuction shorter after takeoff.
Dive Site 30517781
Dive Site 5834953052
Dive Site 30515249
Dive Site 30473071
Indiana
J.D. Marshall
Maryland
Dover
Dive Site 11689072834
Dive Site 6056634774
Dive Site 9469091419
Dive Site 8440702003
Portland
Dive Site 8440702002
U-1105
German submarine U-1105, a Type VII-C/41 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, was built at the Nordseewerke Shipyard, Emden, Germany, and commissioned on 3 June 1944. Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Joachim Schwarz was given command. He would command U-1105 for the remainder of the war.
Dive Site 11689072839
Hawaii
Enenue
Reef's End
Northern Mariana Islands
The Grotto
Dive Site 11834059731
Guam
Tokai Maru
The Tokai Maru was a Japanese passenger-cargo ship built by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard that was sunk in Apra Harbor, Guam, in 1943, during World War II.
Pennsylvania
Lake Hydra
All Things Aquatic
Canobie Shipwreck and Bouy
Ohio
John B. Lyon
Wooden steamer sank in a storm. Size: 256' x 39' x 20'
New York
Dive Site 12998703600
Dive Site 9286505826
Dive Site 9286505825
Champlain II
The steamboat Oakes Ames was built in 1868 by the Napoleon B Proctor Shipyard in Burlington, Vermont, for the Rutland Railroad. The 244-foot paddle wheeler was designed to ferry railroad cars from Burlington across Lake Champlain to Plattsburgh, New York. She was named after one of the railroad's directors' Oakes Ames.
Keystorm (Wreck)
This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 44.4297° North, 75.8232° West.
Michigan
Wreck of the SS Kamloops
SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands in Lake Superior off Isle Royale, Michigan, United States, on or about 7 December 1927.
James McBride
Walter L Frost
George M. Cox (USS Puritan)
Glenlyon
Barge
Three Brothers
Massachusetts
SS Pendleton
Wanderer
USS Grouse (AMS-15)
WWII US Navy minesweeper ran aground on reef and destroyed
Frances
Tennessee
Dive Below H2O Scuba
Georgia
Dive Site 12075414594
Wisconsin
Wreck of the Thomas Friant
Thomas Friant was a wooden-hulled ferry that served on the Great Lakes from her construction in 1884 to her sinking in 1924. In January 1924, while gillnetting out of Two Harbors, Minnesota in Lake Superior, she was holed by ice, and sank with no fatalities. In 2004 her wreck was discovered in over 300 feet (91 m) of water in pristine condition. The wreck of Thomas Friant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
Light Vessel No.57
Light Vessel No.57 was an American lightvessel that was built in 1891 and served on the Great Lakes, west of the Straits of Mackinac, from her construction to her retirement in 1924. She was partly dismantled, used as a clubhouse, and wrecked by a storm at some time after 1928. On December 16, 1996 the remains of Light Vessel No.57 were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Nebraska
Dive Site 10111059384
New Jersey
Sea King
Alabama
Dive Site 1651680734
Maine
Dive Site 11879596657
D.T. Sheridan
Oregon
The Boiler
Montana
Dive Site 12096458569
Steamboat remains at the bottom of the river in this area, Can be a hazard if river is very low.
Connecticut
Fintastic Diving
Colorado
Scuba One World Dive & Travel
Idaho
Dive Site 12829695094
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