If you are at least 18 years old and have an Advanced Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent, you can take a Wreck Diving course and start exploring sunken vessels, aircraft, and other amazing wrecks in the underwater world.

Your Wreck Diving instructor will teach you about safety, hazards and cautions, special risks of overhead environments, entanglement, limited visibility, deep diving, equipment, location of wrecks, sources of information, search methods, underwater navigation, legal aspects, artifacts, treasure, salvage, archaeology, and much more. Get ready to start exploring!

A few examples of different types of Wreck Diving:
Boats and Ships
Not surprisingly most wrecks are boats and ships. Historically, most ships were sunk accidentally but it is now quite common for many of the world's navies to deliberately scuttle decommissioned vessels for the use of recreational divers. There are many different types of ships that can be explored, from four hundred year old pirate ships to modern Navy warships and cruise liners. Most ship wrecks also serve as spectacular artificial reefs, attracting an incredible diversity of marine life.

Submarines
Submarines tend to have more of a mysterious aura surrounding them and this may be because they are less frequently found by divers. Submarines are usually not as easily accessible due to tight, confined spaces and the tendency for submarines to sit in very deep water.

Airplanes
It is also fairly common to be able to dive the wrecks of airplanes, particularly fighter jets from World War II. There are many airplane wrecks found in the South Pacific and the most famous place in the world to dive airplane wrecks is Truk Lagoon in Micronesia and as close as Southern California just outside the harbor in San Diego.

Automobiles
Automobiles are less common as underwater wrecks, but can often be found in lakes, rivers, and quarries. There are even some ships that sank with automobiles such as cars and motorcycles onboard.

For more information on the different training and specialty classes offered at Divers Cove, please use the menu on the left hand side under Scuba Training. If you have any questions, you can email us or call us at (916) 984-6185