The downtown Y lets me test gear out. I am loading my Jeep for the Gold Coast and the Keys, only a few thousand miles. Is that close enough.
Seriously, the only place anywhere around is Table Rock Lake which has a sunken bridge which is an advanced/tech dive, a sunken paddle wheeler/barge which can be an advanced dive, Jakes Point Island/Cruiser which if you push 160 feet I guess that is technical and then there is the Enchanted Forest which is a grove of standing trees left eerily standing and then the poor folks bank dive around the dam there who have no boat to go to the better places. Over the long weekend I dove there and at 70-115 feet and deeper viz was decent, for a man made lake, around 15 to 25 feet.
Of all the man made lakes I have dived, (essentially fresh water is boring) Table Rock is number one because it has something other than mud covered rocks, lawnmowers and crawdads to dive.
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