Local Dive Trips

 
 The visibility is excellent right now: 30 – 50 feet vis and water temperature is in the mid 60s. 

Bull Shoals Lake  2013

Located in the beautiful Ozark mountains on the northern border of Arkansas (440 miles from Peoria/Bloomington area). You will be lodging aboard luxury houseboats for three days and nights. Boats have TV, VHS/DVD, air-conditioning, refrigerator and one full bath. All meals and snacks are provided. Transportation is arranged. Dive an average of six dives right off the houseboat in the clear waters of Bull Shoals Lake. Open Water, Advanced Open Water, and many specialty certification dives can be completed on these trips. Available are swimming, water skiing, fishing, night dive, wreck dive, spear fishing, jet skis, barbecue dinner, and great fun. These are our most popular trips at a very reasonable prices. Great trip for non divers. Many customers do multiple trips each season. Scheduled from April through October. Now available 60 foot Super Deluxe Houseboats with private bedrooms, slide, fly deck, large television with good reception and DVD/VHS player, full kitchen with double refrigerators, two full bathrooms. Extra charge depending on the room and time of year as these boats have a rental fee double the regular deluxe houseboats.   To view:www.bullshoalslakeboatdock.com  Taking deposits now!

Want to rent boat for your own family trip?  Call us for special prices.  Let us know when you can join.  Still the best trip for the money with unlimited diving, all meals, and lots of water activities with the convenience of houseboat living. Transportation not included. Price may fluctuate with price of gasoline.
May 3 – 5 or 6. Approximately $225-255 depending on the number of customers (discount with check or cash).  First trip of the year.  Usually the best visiblity.  Complete you open water and/or advanced certification dives plus additional dives.  Pretrip meeting Wednesday, May 1.  Three or four spots available.

May 24 – 27, 2013. Water temperature should be close to 70 at the surface!  MEMORIAL Day weekend.  Reduced price $225 or less depending on the number of divers on the boat.   Great weekend as the lake is still pretty quiet.   We will have the 50 foot houseboat but there is always a good chance that we can get the 60 foot house boat at a good discount   Pretrip meeting Wednesday, May 22.

July 19 -22 or July 26 -29, 2013 (tentative date). Water temperature should be around 80s! Treasure Hunt trip with over $1400 in prizes.   Great trip and everyone came away with at least $25 in prizes last year.  We will have two houseboats: a 50 foot houseboat $255 (250) Pretrip meeting Wednesday, July 17.

2013: August and September or October trip.   Let us know when you can join.  Deluxe house boat and lower prices for these trips.

 
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Mermet Springs
Located in Southern Illinois, between Vienna and Metropolis.  In the Fall this rock quarry has some of the clearest water in Illinois.  It is stocked with a large variety of fish; it is the home of U.S. Marshall’s 727, as well as many other wrecks. Entry fee is $20. $90 – $135 includes two entry fees, two air fills, one or two nights lodging, breakfast. Transportation is arranged. Can complete wreck diving and other specialty certifications at this quarry. Visibility is often 20 – 40 feet in the fall. Open Water, Advanced, Drysuit, Wreck. Open during the winter but need drysuit.  Visibility is 25 to 40 feet.   Nineteen of us enjoyed the last warm weekend of the year.   Later winter trips in Drysuits.  Sign up for Drysuit class ($165 includes pool session and dives) or Fusion Plus class ($100 includes use of suit for all of the dives)
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 Inquire about diving in a comfortable Fusion Drysuit on any of our weekend trips and receive and additional certification.

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Haigh Quarry, Kankakee, IL   For a week day need four divers.
Only two and a half hours away.  Cost for one day at Haig including extra air fill and arranged transportation, $50.  Let us know if you can go on a Thursday when vis is much better and there are fewer divers instead of 100s on the weekend. Visibility has decrease during the month of September.  Let us know if you want to go on a Saturday or Thursday.   Vis is usually good in the spring. dates: Thursday, May 16, 2013. Tentative dates: Saturday, May 25, June 1, June 15 or a Thursday in early June

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Lakeland Park, Canton
This former strip mine is stocked with fish and has some submerged underwater structures. Good for training dives as visibility is usually poor but clear in the spring.  Saturday, May 18

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Lake Wazee, WI
Camp out or stay at a local hotel at off season rates.  25 foot visibility and lots of fish.  $10 entree fee.  Certification dives if there is enough interest!  Great new location.
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Lake Michigan, Summer 2013, Chicago or Milwaukee
WisconsinIntro.jpgLet us know when you can join us for a wreck diving trip on Lake Michigan. Dive the Milwaukee and Prins Wilhelm.  Visibility can be good.   Must be advanced.   Can complete wreck certification.  Must be advanced certified. Diving out of Chicago in 2011 : we had great vis and two good dives on the Straights of Macinac and the Buccaneer. Join us in 2013.  Tentative August 3 or 110.

Bonne Terre Mine for open water certification or trail dives.  April trip if there is enough interest.  This will be our third trip for 2013.  (Let us know when you want to go as we will add another trip).  $210 deposit for three dives.
Single dives are now $70 per dive. Join us for one day of diving. Can complete your Open Water or Advanced dives in the mine.  Complete Fusion Drysuit certification and dive in comfort for an extra $100.  In February six of us completed four dives in the new rental suits.  Very warm and comfortable in the 57 degree water.  Bonne Terre is one of the of the most unusual dive sites in the world.  The world’s largest flooded mine with 100 foot visibility guarantees year around diving. It is located an hour south of St. Louis. It has a constant water temperature just under 60 degrees. The sights include: amazing architecture of pillars, stalactites, and caverns, oar carts, elevator shaft. and more.  The mine is larger than anything we can describe.   Dive where you have 50 to 100 foot visibility! Cannot confirm until deposits are in! Cavern Diving specialty sign up for this winter if enough sign up! Advanced dives and Specialty certification: Deep Diving, Night Diving, DrySuit Diving (We can complete certain specialties by doing the trail dives).

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Pensacola, Panama City or Palm Beach, FL
Good wreck diving and clear springs around Panama City.. Reef & drift diving off Palm Beach. Nearby are some crystal clear fresh water springs.  This is the nearest salt water diving. This trip is not scheduled every year. This is as close as we can get for ocean dives. See Ocean trips.