Exotic/oddball/unusual dive spots?

[Ith]

Unless you are a cave diver, don't bother with Vortex. There really isn't much to see and it's full of overhead environments. Crystal clear most of the time, but nothing there.

 

[nolatom]

I second HI 389 platform dive if you're out at the Flower Gardens. And I think the dives there are "exotic", especially Stetson, a pinnacle 70 miles offshore with great rock formations.

And on the other end of the spectrum, there's a neat little beach dive at Woods Hole, Mass., with some pretty good marine life and fish. What's weird is it's name--"Garbage Beach". Now *there's* an exotic name, but it's a nice little dive in a really interesting town. You feed a parking meter outside WHOI and have a nice morning.

 

[knfmn]

This is the #1 dive I want to do before I die. I've been drooling over pictures of it for years

The Wikipedia page for the jellyfish lake states that scuba diving isn't allowed there. Is that erroneous information? We all know that *everything* on Wikipedia is *always* accurate....lolol.

Kristopher

 

[knfmn]

I can assure you that being in water cooled by a nuke is not bad. We live by a cooling pond for a nuke plant. We have swan, boat, water ski, knee board and wakeboarding on it. No real problems, as long as you can get past my third eye

And the pond provides a lovely green glow when you hang out there at night?

Kristopher

 

[Guba]

Photo credit error duly noted and corrected. My compliments to the photographer, hammerhead!

 

[SC_Hoaty]

Submarine Island, near Sasebo, Japan. http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/zen-divers/356599-sasebo.html

Just because it is so out of the way, and still was a fun dive. Getting the dive lined up was more than half the adventure.

 

[tddfleming]

And the pond provides a lovely green glow when you hang out there at night?

Kristopher

And here I thought that the glow I give off is just my natural radiance shining through

 

[jpiwaron]

Of places I haven't been, diving with humboldt squids in Baja intrigues me the most.

Aren't those squids dangerous? I thought they were also referred to as "red devils"?

 

[vladimir]

Aren't those squids dangerous?

Yes; from what I have read, divers have used chain-mail shark suits, body armor, shark cages, plexiglass cages, and tethers to avoid being dragged into the depths.

 

[silvernotch]

The Wikipedia page for the jellyfish lake states that scuba diving isn't allowed there. Is that erroneous information? We all know that *everything* on Wikipedia is *always* accurate....lolol.

Kristopher

I'm not sure anymore. I saw they went there on an episode of Globe Trekker once and she couldn't even wear fins due to possibly damaging them but on the other hand I've heard that you can dive there.