Dive Sites in United States of America

100 dive sites and underwater attractions

Virginia

SS Roxy

📍 Chesapeake
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

SS Roxy took on water late 2022 during a viscous thunderstorm. It now rests abandoned.

Ship Graveyard

📍 Chester
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 6592331765

📍 Virginia Beach
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 6592331761

📍 Virginia Beach
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 6592331764

📍 Virginia Beach
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Other Locations

wreck

WWII oil tanker operated by the US Navy, ran aground and sank on nearby reef.

SS Columbia

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 25.0667° North, 80.3108° West in the Caribbean Sea region.

Florida

Deliverance

🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

P. C. Barge

🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

Dive Site 6187178218

📍 Sarasota
🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

Shipwreck, possibly the remains of a barge used in the dredging and expansion of the local keys.

Windjammer

🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

Three Coal Barges

🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 30.2915° North, 87.2048° West.

Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site

📍 Sailfish Point
🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

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)

📍 Delray Beach
🌊 Caribbean Sea
wreck

Fort Pickens Jetties

📍 Warrington
🌊 Gulf of Mexico

Dive Site 9315031740

📍 Jacksonville
🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

California

Pismo Beach Dive Shop

📍 Pismo Beach
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Avalon Dive Park

📍 Avalon
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Shaws Cove

📍 Laguna Beach
🌊 Pacific Ocean

bay in Orange County, California, United States of America. Located at 33.5450° North, 117.7987° West.

USS Milwaukee (C-21)

📍 Eureka
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Cayucos
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Goldenhorn

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

King Philip

📍 San Francisco
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Remains of late 1800s clipper, usually buried beneath the sand but sometimes visible at low tide when sand is eroded

USS PC-815

📍 San Diego
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

WWII patrol craft infamous for several incidents, sunk in collision with USS Laffey.

SS Avalon

📍 Palos Verdes Estates
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Cuba

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Winfield Scott

📍 Ventura
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Lompoc
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 4203638389

📍 Eureka
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

S.S. Garden City

📍 Crockett
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Vermont

O.J. Walker

📍 Burlington
🌊 Pacific Ocean
⬇️ Max depth: 19.812m
wreck

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

📍 Ferrisburgh
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Water Witch

📍 Ferrisburgh
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 30527385

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 5835052703

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wreck of a PB4Y bomber

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 5834953052

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 30515249

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 30473071

📍 Seattle
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Indiana

J.D. Marshall

📍 Porter
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Maryland

Dover

📍 Baltimore
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 8440702003

📍 Baltimore
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Portland

📍 Glen Burnie
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 8440702002

📍 Baltimore
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

U-1105

📍 Piney Point
🌊 Pacific Ocean

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.

Hawaii

Enenue

📍 Wailea
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Reef's End

📍 Wailea
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Northern Mariana Islands

The Grotto

📍 I Maddok
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Dive Site 11834059731

📍 Songsong
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Guam

Tokai Maru

📍 Apra Harbor
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Lower Nazareth Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean

All Things Aquatic

📍 Pittsburgh
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Canobie Shipwreck and Bouy

📍 Harborcreek Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Charles Foster

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

9 miles NW of Erie,PA.

Ohio

John B. Lyon

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Wooden steamer sank in a storm. Size: 256' x 39' x 20'

New York

Dive Site 12998703600

📍 New York
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9286505826

📍 Brooklyn
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Dive Site 9286505825

📍 City of New York
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Champlain II

📍 Town of Westport
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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)

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

This is a wreck dive site. Historic wreck site. Located at 44.4297° North, 75.8232° West.

Michigan

Wreck of the SS Kamloops

📍 Houghton Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Glen Arbor Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Walter L Frost

📍 Glen Arbor Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Barge

📍 Stanton Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Three Brothers

📍 Glen Arbor Township
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Massachusetts

SS Pendleton

📍 Chatham
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

Wanderer

📍 Cuttyhunk
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

USS Grouse (AMS-15)

📍 Rockport
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

WWII US Navy minesweeper ran aground on reef and destroyed

Frances

📍 Truro
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Tennessee

Dive Below H2O Scuba

📍 Nashville
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Georgia

Dive Site 12075414594

📍 Atlanta
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Wisconsin

Wreck of the Thomas Friant

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Milwaukee
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

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

📍 Omaha
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

New Jersey

Sea King

📍 Barnegat Light
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Alabama

Dive Site 1651680734

📍 Gulf Shores
🌊 Gulf of Mexico
wreck

Maine

Dive Site 11879596657

📍 Roque Bluffs
🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

D.T. Sheridan

🌊 Atlantic Ocean
wreck

Oregon

The Boiler

🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Montana

Dive Site 12096458569

📍 Fort Benton
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

Steamboat remains at the bottom of the river in this area, Can be a hazard if river is very low.

Connecticut

Fintastic Diving

📍 Branford
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Colorado

Scuba One World Dive & Travel

📍 Greenwood Village
🌊 Pacific Ocean

Idaho

Dive Site 12829695094

📍 Dover
🌊 Pacific Ocean
wreck

About Diving in United States of America

Dive site data from OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. Information may not be complete.