Dive Sites
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Catalina Island
Avalon · California · United States
A rugged Channel Island off the Los Angeles coast offering kelp forest cathedrals, rocky reefs teeming with garibaldi and horn sharks, and the famous Casino Point underwater park.
Catalina Two Harbors
Long Beach · California · United States
The remote western end of Catalina Island where kelp forests, rocky reefs, and blue-water walls offer Southern California's finest diving among giant black sea bass, bat rays, and the resident population of garibaldi damselfish in crystal-clear Pacific water.
Monterey Bay
Monterey · California · United States
California's premier cold-water diving destination with towering kelp forests, playful sea otters, harbour seals, and an extraordinary abundance of marine life thriving in nutrient-rich upwelling waters.
San Diego Kelp Forest
San Diego · California · United States
The kelp forests off La Jolla and Point Loma rank among California's most accessible temperate diving, where giant kelp canopies shelter leopard sharks, garibaldi, and harbour seals in rocky reef habitat.
Anacapa Island
Ventura · Channel Islands · United States
The closest of California's Channel Islands, where cold nutrient-rich upwelling creates towering kelp forests teeming with giant black sea bass, harbour seals, and vibrant invertebrate-encrusted walls.
Blue Heron Bridge
West Palm Beach · Florida · United States
Shallow shore dive under a bridge. World-class macro and critter diving. Best at slack high tide.
Blue Heron Bridge
Riviera Beach · Florida · United States
North America's premier shore-access muck dive where the warm waters beneath a Florida bridge harbor an astonishing parade of rare critters including seahorses, frogfish, octopus, and manatees in barely 8 meters of water.
USS Oriskany
Pensacola · Florida · United States
The 'Great Carrier Reef' — a 270-metre Essex-class aircraft carrier intentionally sunk as the world's largest artificial reef, now teeming with marine life in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola.
Molasses Reef
Key Largo · Florida Keys · United States
The most popular dive site in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, a sprawling shallow spur-and-groove reef system with outstanding coral coverage and effortless drift diving for all levels.
Spiegel Grove Wreck
Key Largo · Florida Keys · United States
A 155-metre former US Navy landing ship dock intentionally sunk in 2002 off Key Largo, now the largest purpose-sunk artificial reef in the world and home to massive goliath groupers and swirling barracuda schools.
USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Key West · Florida Keys · United States
A 160-metre former military transport ship intentionally sunk in 2009 off Key West, creating the second-largest artificial reef in the world and attracting goliath groupers, barracuda, and sea turtles.
Flower Garden Banks
Galveston · Gulf of Mexico · United States
The northernmost coral reef system in the continental United States, rising from the Gulf of Mexico floor 190 km offshore with massive star coral heads, annual coral spawning events, and schooling hammerhead sharks.
First Cathedrals
Lahaina · Hawaii · United States
A spectacular lava tube cavern off Lanai's south shore where shafts of sunlight pierce through ceiling openings, creating an ethereal cathedral effect that makes this Hawaii's most iconic cavern dive.
Manta Ray Night Dive (Garden Eel Cove)
Kailua-Kona · Hawaii · United States
A mesmerising night dive where giant manta rays perform barrel rolls inches from divers drawn to plankton spotlights.
Molokini Crater
Maui · Hawaii · United States
Volcanic crescent crater with protected marine preserve. Crystal visibility and diverse Hawaiian marine life.
Molokini Crater
Kihei · Hawaii · United States
A submerged volcanic crescent off Maui with gin-clear 45-metre visibility, 250 fish species, and a dramatic 110-metre back wall.
USS Schurz Wreck
Morehead City · North Carolina · United States
A World War I naval vessel resting on the sandy bottom of North Carolina's Graveyard of the Atlantic, this former German Imperial Navy cruiser turned American warship offers penetration diving among historical artefacts and rich temperate marine life.
Dutch Springs Quarry
Bethlehem · Pennsylvania · United States
A former limestone quarry in eastern Pennsylvania converted into the East Coast's premier freshwater dive training facility, filled with sunken attractions including aircraft, buses, and platforms at progressive depths.
About the dive sites catalog
The DiveOne dive sites catalog includes reefs, wrecks, walls, caves and drift dive locations across major dive destinations. Each location includes depth, conditions, environment type and skill requirements to help you plan safely.
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