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Silfra Fissure

Iceland – Þingvellir, Iceland

Glacial meltwater between two tectonic plates, with visibility that can pass 100 m.

Bonne Terre Mine

Bonne Terre Mine, United States

Guided trail dives in a flooded mine lit by over 500,000 watts, in constant 58°F water with about 100-foot visibility.

Barracuda Lake

Coron, Philippines

A lake where fresh water sits on top of salt water heated by geothermal vents to 38 C, with a resident barracuda.

Devil's Den

Florida Springs, United States

An underground spring inside a dry cave, with stalactite rock formations and Pleistocene fossil beds, at 72 °F year round.

Kreidesee Hemmoor

Hemmoor Chalk Lake, Germany

A flooded chalk quarry to 60 m with an old access road, flooded houses and forest, plus a sailboat at 14 m and a plane at 12 m.

Lake Kaindy

Lake Kaindy, Kazakhstan

Trunks of submerged Schrenk's spruce stand in a 2,000 m alpine lake dammed by a landslide from the 1911 Kebin earthquake.

Lake Tignes Ice Dive

Lake Tignes, France

Guided dives under 1-2 m of ice on the natural lake of Tignes, where trout overwinter beneath the frozen surface.

Troy Spring

Florida Springs, United States

A 70-ft first-magnitude spring with the remains of the Civil War steamboat Madison, scuttled in 1863, in its shallow run.

Lake Thingvallavatn

Iceland – Þingvellir, Iceland

Capo d'Acqua Submerged Mills

Lago di Capo d'Acqua, Italy

Two submerged mills, one still largely intact with its mill wheel visible on the other, lie in about 9 m of clear spring water.

Blue Grotto

Florida Springs, United States

An open-water basin to 40 ft, a wide-entrance upper cavern and an air bell with viewing windows, plus Virgil the resident turtle.

Blue Lake (Wendover)

Utah inland dives (Bonneville Seabase & Homestead Crater), United States

A geothermal pond about 16 mi south of Wendover, 18 m deep with warm-water fish such as bass, tilapia and bluegill.

Ginnie Springs (Ginnie Ballroom)

Florida Springs, United States

Pull up to the Ballroom's welded grate at 50 ft and feel the force of 35 million gallons of spring water a day.

Nordhusia Underwater Village

Sundhäuser See, Germany

An artificial underwater village at about 10 m with church, graveyard and gallows, plus a fishing-boat wreck at 21 m in the same lake.

Taketomi Island Submarine Hot Spring

Okinawa & Yonaguni, Japan

Warm thermal water gushes from a seabed spring off Taketomi, letting divers see a submarine geyser up close.

The Crater at Homestead

Utah inland dives (Bonneville Seabase & Homestead Crater), United States

A geothermal spring where dives reach about 65 feet in water that stays between 90 and 96°F in every season.

Arabia

Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada

An 1853 three-masted barque that sank in 1884 and now rests upright at about 32 m.

Junkers Ju 52 (Hartvikvatnet)

Narvik & Lofoten, Norway

A Second World War Junkers 52 plane lying quite intact at 2–9 m in Hartvikvannet, about 3 miles from Narvik.

Niagara II

Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada

A wreck purpose-sunk upright in 1999 for diving, with the top of the wheelhouse at about 14 m.

Rummu Underwater Prison

Rummu Quarry, Estonia

Shallow freshwater quarry dive past flooded prison buildings and a submerged 'Zombie Forest' of drowned trees.

The Caves (Grotto)

Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada

A 6 m swim-through along white boulders that opens into a sheltered grotto in the Bruce Peninsula shoreline.

The Tugs

Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada

Four small steam-tug wrecks in up to 13 m, a popular site for open water check-outs.

Bell Island #2 Mine

Conception Bay & Bell Island (Newfoundland), Canada

Flooded iron mine under Bell Island: follow pipe-works and pumps left in the workings that fed Allied WWII shipbuilding.

Big Tub Lighthouse Point

Tobermory (Fathom Five), Canada

A wall dive down the submerged Niagara Escarpment to 23 m at Big Tub Lighthouse Point.