From a Nuclear Missile to a Graveyard: The Top 7 World’s Most Weirdest Dive Sites

Are you fond of diving? Do you feel bored from visiting traditional dive sites with their usual coral reefs and tropical creatures? What about having adventures at the most weirdest dive sites in the world? Are you brave enough to go?

You are probably ashing for an extremely extraordinary diving adventure. Below, here is a list of the most weirdest diving sites in the world. There is a whole new water waiting for you.

1. The Nuclear Missile of Valhalla (SiloGF)

This nuclear missile location is about 32 km south of Abilene, Texas. During the cold war, This silo was containing a nuclear-tipped Atlas missile. Now, It is only filled with 2 million gallons of groundwater. Its concrete and steel cylindrical pool is 18 meters in width and 38 meters in depth.

when diving in this missile silo aside you will just see left behind controls with some debris. But this site deserves to be at the top of The most weirdest dive sites list as how many people can say they got the chance to dive in such a nuclear missile silo? Another interesting reason why you should visit this place is they offer many certifications including attitude dive, deep dive, wreck dive and night dive.

2. china’s Great Wall

china's great wall in the list of weirdest dive sites

Do you want to make your visit to the Great Wall more unique and special? Hebei provinces Panjiakou Reservoir will be a good dive site if you are a fan of ruins. here, you will find that about 400 meters of the Great Wall submerged in water. You will find the location is about a 3-5 hour drive far from Beijing. there is no biodiversity here but the lake contains several species of shrimp and freshwater fish. come now, the giant, sleeping dragon here is waiting for you.

3. Subway Cars in the Atlantic Ocean

It is common to hear about shipwrecks being used as water tourist attractions but modern subways cars underwater! it’s an extraordinary idea. In August 2001 the government of New York decided to drop the decommissioned subway car of the city into the Atlantic Ocean as artificial reefs.

this isn’t the only case, as during the ninth century, about 2500 subway cars were scheduled to be sunk in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia as a type of recycling. some of these sites are used for ecological studies.

4. The Underwater Japanese Ruins

the mysterious Younaguni ruins are truly thrilling dive sites. Divers who visited that site wonder where it came from and whether an ancient civilization was here one day.

yonaguni is a small island that is very hard to get to and is located in the Yaeyama islands in the westernmost area of Japan. its popularity came from the dive site located on its southern coast has baffled divers. There you can find the Yonaguni monument which is an underwater pyramid

the divers were puzzled about how it got there. some think that the whole site was a city in the past, others think that the pyramid is just a natural phenomenon and some people even think that the aliens built it, but all of them agree that the Yonaguni monument is extremely impressive.

the pyramids seem to be 5ooo to 8000 years old. Unfortunately, this dive site isn’t for novice divers cause it is located in open waters that have high waves and strong currents.

5. sculpture of Grenada

sculpture of Grenda is located in Molinere Bay which is a 10-minute boat ride from the island’s most famous beach. the divers and the snorkellers can have an enchanting journey in the underwater sculpture park which was the passion project of Jason Decaires (a famous British sculptor) who decided to send his concrete creations into the depths to make his own artificial reefs.

the park includes many amazing curved statues like:

  • A statue of Jesus.
  • A nutmeg with a woman emerging from it.
  • Figures holding hands in a ring on the sea bed.

you will filled with eerie and oddly emotional feelings on diving between the figures that are trapped for aya at the bottom of the ocean.

6. Aircraft in Turkey

it looks that the plan of turkey to make a weird and wonderful artificial dive site has worked, as a huge number of foreign tourists came from all over the world to visit the resort town of Kas to explore the underwater daxota DC3 passenger plane which has been sunk in the sea bed in 2009. when you see it, you will feel like it is ready for the next takeoff. you can take a tour in the plane and swim into the cabin and cockpit. seeing fisher in their homes between dials levers.

7. the underwater Graveyard

many cemeteries are located in South Carolina’s cases vally which was later flooded to build a reservoir for a nuclear power plant. while most graves had been moved to higher neer ground, some tombstones were left in their places to be now 36 meters beneath the waves of Lake Jocassee Rose.

 

 

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