Underwater Towns/cities

[MBanks]

Hi,
Anyone dived or know a list of the sunken cities that are around the world?
Are they easy to dive, ie permission etc. I would love to hear more about anyone's experiences. Maybe there is a house I can let down there

 

[spaghetti]

Very nice one a few km from Naples, Italy (not Naples Florida), in front of the town of Baia. I'ts an ancient roman town, Portus Julius, built at the time of emperor Augustus, then sunk after sismic events.
Known as "la città sommersa", you can dive it, but only in groups organized by local diving agencies.

 

[trux]

In Czech Republic, there are several submerged villages in artificial dam lakes. Some of them are quite researched diving localities (i.e. Zivohost in the lake Slapy near Prague), though the water visibility is usually minimal (1m or less).

I guess there are many other such villages or small towns in dam lakes around the world, though often buildings are being leveled before filling the dam.

PS: I just tried Google, and indeed it reveals plenty links for [ame="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-26%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=dam+lake+diving+%22submerged+town%22+OR+%22submerged+village%22+OR+%22submerged+city%22+OR+%22sunken+town%22&btnG=Search"]diving submerged towns in dam lakes[/ame]

 

[Jon]

Lake Norfolk in Arkansas.

I haven't dove it but I know people who have- one dive shop I used to work at sent store trips down there in the summer time.

From what i understand of the lake there was a whole own flooded during the construction of the TVA damn project back in the 30's. I guess there are houses and bridges that you can swim through and dive on. At the time I remember hearing about some great vis and decent vis in the summer months.

Jon

 

[IronLung]

I just came across this link to some underwater pyramids off the coast of Japan. Vis looks pretty good.

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/phikent/japan/japan.html

And another link...

http://www.grahamhancock.com/gallery/underwater/default.htm Ed.

Ike

 

[MBanks]

The first link didn't work, but the other one did. I liked the images, it's strange to see such large structures underwater. I would love to dive an underwater ruin, maybe someday when I get the money together!

 

[DeepThought]

Keysaria (in Israel) should have some old roman ruins opened to diving since a year ago or so. I haven't checked them yet, maybe Mundial or Oferdegi would know more about it.

 

[Sergiu]

I "descovered" while snorkelling (at the time it was not much freediving) part of an ancient greek city just of Gumusluk, not far from Bodrum, in Turkey. There are many such places along the coast in Turkey but most of them are off limit for scuba divers to prevent looting artifacts. This place I found, was not dived at all nor i saw anybody around every sigle time a was there - amazing. It's not much of an city with erect buildings, but lots of marble stones, and the sea floor is covered with amphoraes, mostly broken but nonetheless an amazing site. I will certainly go back there to freedive it in the deeper parts - scuba it's a no-no, there is an military outpost nearby, Greek islands just across the waters and i wouldnt want to be mistaken for some underwater enemy trying to "land" on Turkish teritory!

Well, ask me nicely and i might give the exact location of this place

serge