Question Any wreck diving in Downeast Maine?

[Bierstadt]

I'm a Great Lakes diver who has enjoyed visiting Maine for many years, but never to dive. I'm looking into what the best wreck and shorediving is in downeast Maine and I'm shocked at how little I am finding. I'm not even seeing dive shops in between Portland and Lubec, at all. So my question for our Maine divers is where do you go to see shipwrecks and seals? And why am I not finding dive shops and charters; surely Acadia is swarmed with enough people in the summer to support a dive op?

I found the diving in Gloucester, MA which looks like what I want except it is 4 hours south of where I am staying.

Thanks.

 

[Andy in Gap]

I immediately thought of the Eagle 56 but it’s 300ft deep at only 5 miles offshore. I suspect that is why there is very little wreck diving in that area, gets too deep very close to shore.