Scuba Caches

[+donbadabon]

Recently searching out the caches that are underwater, and require scuba equipment to retrieve, I found that it is not as easy as searching for the word 'scuba' in the title.

 

So here are the ones I have on my watchlist, in case others are interested in these. If you know of some I don't have, please post them!

 

The Rapture of the Deep

 

Chelan SCUBA Cache

 

Dean's Deseret Dive Destination

 

Eagle Reef Scuba Cache

 

Hidden Paradise Scuba Cache

 

It's WET Down There!

 

King Kahekili

 

Little Rocky SCUBA Cache

 

Minus 30

 

Neptune's Trident

 

Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents

 

Treasure Coast Treasure Trove (Scuba)

[+joefrog]

There are a few more that I've found, most of which are snorkeller's caches and are shallow enough they don't require scuba. I have a HUGE desire to place one myself!

 

Under Where?

 

Ambituous Snorkeller

 

NFA-7 Hydrocache & Picnic Spot

[+BadAndy]

Heres one my brother placed near Denver of all places. It's on a wreck (airplane) sunk for the divers/snorklers enjoyment.

 

Curts can't touch this

[+donbadabon]

Adding a Scuba Travel Bug that I am watching:

 

Take me diving!

[+Texan78]

Are their any in the Dive lakes in the Texas State Parks. I would be intrested in knowing about those.

[+BeachBuddies]

Thanks for the list Don!

[FreeFloat]

So from what I can see, my cache, Ambitious Snorkeller, is Canada's only underwater cache!

 

Oh don't worry folks, I have plans for two more Canadian underwater caches - one of which will truly require scuba and the other which might just be accessible by freediving (I'm a freediver myself, at least down to 80'). Oh, I just laugh about all the local dive sites that no one thinks have 'anything" to see...!

 

FreeFloat

the Scubacacher

[+Dagg]

http://vigps.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=9

 

Not listed on GC.com

[+PezCachers]

Here is another one.

 

GCJ9YK

[+Two Geeks and a GPS]

ScubaGeek

 

Here is another "scuba" TB. He has yet to dive to an actual cache though!

 

I have found that it is equally hard to find canoe/boat only caches while searching as well. I guess I'll wait for somebody more ambitious than me to get that list too!

[huladiver]

Any new scuba caches? I'd love to see some in Washington. :-)

[+hamgran]

Near London, Ontario, Canada: "Scuba Cache, Innerkip Quarry" GCPRAC.

Edited September 27, 2005 by hamgran

[+cudlecub]

I have one that's not been found since it was placed a year ago. Every month I hear at our local caching meeting of people wanting to go for it yet no one has yet. Deep Dam Cache I have thought of changing it to a multi and throwing in rappelling. But after a year of it not being found, making it harder will only keep it as unfound.

Edited September 29, 2005 by cudlecub

[+Geo Froggy]

This one is in SW Va. Scuba Cache

[+Teamhawaii1981 & blueicyrose]

Here's one on Cape Cod. Scuba School I I believe is outside the water.

 

Scuba School II

 

There are some neat pictures here too.

Edited September 29, 2005 by Teamhawaii1981

[+MedicOne]

Any new scuba caches? I'd love to see some in Washington. :-)

 

Two of the caches on the list are in Washington - It's wet down there is near Tacoma and the other is in Lake Chelan. Neptune's Trident is just over the border from Spokane in Idaho. Have fun!

[+jmunch]

I have one near the breakwater in Monterey, CA. Check it out!

GCT98H

[+Vinny & Sue Team]

Recently searching out the caches that are underwater, and require scuba equipment to retrieve, I found that it is not as easy as searching for the word 'scuba' in the title.

 

So here are the ones I have on my watchlist, in case others are interested in these. If you know of some I don't have, please post them!

 

....

Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents

 

 

Don, it is good to see someone organizing a list of underwater caches under the more-relevant descriptive terms such as SCUBA caches and snorkeling caches. However, one brief note: you had included Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents (GCG822) in your list. While it is indeed located underwater, it is technically not a SCUBA cache, in that it cannot be sought by someone wearing SCUBA gear. This cache is located at a depth of well over 5,000 feet, and SCUBA gear is normally not used below a couple of hundred feet, although there have been deep cave technical divers who have used advanced gas mixtures and rebreathers who have descended to depths of 880 feet or more (and a good number have died attempting it -- witness the deaths of Deon Dryer and Dave Shaw at the Boesmansgat cave pit in the Northern Cape in South Africa in recent years.)

 

Rather, this hydrothermal vent cache can only be tackled using MIR Submersibles launched from a mother ship operated by one of the exploratory or scientific research organizations which rent passenger space on the submersibles, or by use of an unmanned Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) equipped with vide cameras, and hooked via umbilicus to a mother ship floating above. The MIR submersibles can hold from one to three persons, and keeps the inhabitants at a standard 1 atmosphere of pressure, and can work at depths of up to about 19,000 feet. The hydrothermal vent cache was apparently placed by the hider using a MIR submersible while on a scientific research expedition, and the one putative recovery effort to date -- if the online note was genuine and not a lighthearted hoax -- also apparently used a MIR submersible as well.

 

Anyway, thanks for organizing this list!

 

As I have recounted in earlier notes, I have long been tempted to place an underwater SCUBA or snorkeling cache in the lake in nearby Cunnihngham Falls State Park here in Maryland, as the lake is over 80 feet deep in the center, and I had even largely worked out the logistics of permission (for my placement and for seekers with SCUBA gear) with park DNR administrators, but what stopped me was the pure and simple fact that visibility in this lake varies from one foot to less than three feet, and thus such a cache placement is really not very practical. In fact, I have also considered a SCUBA or snorkeling cache placement in the Baltimore Harbor, but the best visibility in that water at the best time of the year is under three feet, and that, coupled with the level of pollution, led me to shelve this option!

[+Recdiver]

-bump

[+joefrog]

I have one that's not been found since it was placed a year ago. Every month I hear at our local caching meeting of people wanting to go for it yet no one has yet. Deep Dam Cache I have thought of changing it to a multi and throwing in rappelling. But after a year of it not being found, making it harder will only keep it as unfound.

 

Heh... yes, it HAS been found!

[+Mule Ears]

Minus 30 Scuba Cache was found last week.