I am from Maine, so pretty much any place where the water is above 32 degrees and has a visibility of more than 5' is fine with me. No seriously there are some beautiful very clear spring fed lakes here in Maine and there has been much history on the states waterway so you never know what you may find. The rocky coast of Maine is a whole other ball game. 95% of the year a drysuit is required and there are very strong currents to contend with but what lies beneath is well worth the effort. The Wreck Hunter website is a great place to look for shipwrecks of all types along the coast of New England. Once you choose the state to search, click on each ships name for a detailed description of the wreck including, depth, location, dangers etc...

Another great and interesting site is Scuba Diving which has tons of great links and info to browse through.

Take care
Mike

Numa_Diver,

One of the things on my "to do" fun list is finishing my pilot's license and getting certified to scuba dive. Reading all your posts of your dives and things related is seriously making me salivate. I have always loved seeing things under the water and the idea of diving on a wreck would be totally thrilling to me. So, I may just have to move that item higher up on my list. :D

THE BEST FRESH WATER DIVING IS IN TOBERMORY ONTARIO CANADA !!!!!

It's about a 3hr drive from Toronto 6hrs from my front door search ontario shipwrecks you'll see what i mean B)

WHEN I AM NOT AT WORK IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, I ENJOY SCUBA DIVING OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA..

Picture of Max and Loren (from this forum) in Morrison Springs, Florida.

Very cool pictures Max!! Man... I soooo want to do that! :(

My favorite spot has always been the Keys. No wrecks worth seeing, but nice water and you are still in the good old USA. My first love has always been spearfishing and they have just about done away with legal spearfishing in the Keys. Time was you could fish off Looe Key or Sombreo reef, but that has been ruined by too many props hitting the corral. There are still some isolated shoals here or there that produce a lot of hogfish. For wreck diving I agree with Buzzardluck, the best I've ever seen is in Tobermory Canada...can't argue with that!

I love shipwreck diving, it's my favourite kind of scuba dive.
But the most suggestive place i usually dive it's a little mountain river called "Saint Anna River", next to Maggiore Lake, north of Italy. You can follow it along a rock
throat until a beautiful waterfall... I will look for a photo and will post it...

Ciao!!!

My favorite dive spot was Hammerhead Point off the north shore of Grand Cayman. We didn't see any hammerheads but we got to actually 'pet' a 100 pound grouper that hangs out there. We had a blast! A close second is Stingray Alley, also at Grand Cayman, where we swam with hundreds of stingrays from babies a foot in diameter to big 'uns over 3 feet in diameter. We fed them squid and petted them. Also a blast!!

Sorry for liltle offtopic.

I want to start diving course, but i don't know wich certification courses should i chose PADI or CMAS?
In which one you made your course?
Recommednd me something.
How advenced you are?

thx much...
cheers

Here they are! This is the Saint Anna river. We started from the beach and dive throught the mountain... the water is about 4 or 5 °C!!!






Ripper. I am a NASE instructor: my first licence was PADI (wich is the italian CMAS), then I arrived to dive master with SSI, and finally rised up to Instructor with NASE. I suggest my students to do the same... but this is the best way in Italy... may be things are different in other places...

Ciao!!!

Ubik,
Wow!!! great pics. I would love to see any others of that trip along with a short description of your dive. Great stuff!!
Mike

Thank you!!! :P
Unfortunally I don't have a lot of shots of that place... we never took scuba photos. I think we will. In this shot (taken on the bridge you can see at the top of the other two photos) you can see the river from the top.
The dive lasts about 1 hour (45 minutes to go up to the waterfall and 15 to come back tp the beach following the river direction).
The bottom is from 5 to 11 meters (16 to 36 ft). The water is very clean and you really feel like flying. In autumn the rocky bottom is covered with yellow dead leaves fallen from the trees. You can find the tipical italian river biosphere.

It's an unusal dive, far from the tyipcal turistics spots, that gives you e really relaxing afternoon. We usually prepare a bbq on the beach after the dive!!! beer: th: beer:

Ciao!!!



P.S. the smiling man on the left in the first photo is the one who introduced me to scuba diving and boat driving, and teached me how to love and respect the seas... my father!!!

Ubik,
nice photos, looks like a fantastic place to dive. I've done a few river dives and the feeling of flowing with the river is great.

Ripper,
I'm a qualified Assistant Instructor with PADI and have been diving for 7 years. Here in the UK we have 2 main groups to choose from, either PADI or BSAC. Ichose PADI as it was more internationally recognised at the time. I have met many people over the years whilst diving with PADI and have not come across a bad dive centre yet, wherever I have been in the world. Best bet is to go along and have a chat and see if you get on with the instrutors and go from there, Enjoy it, it's a great sport.