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Top 10 Shipwreck Dive Trails in America

Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.

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Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail

Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail

Key Largo, FL

Nine historic wrecks across the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, from shallow snorkel sites to deep technical dives

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Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail

Pensacola, FL

Twelve wrecks off Pensacola, Destin, Panama City and Port St. Joe, including a decommissioned aircraft carrier

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Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Alpena, MI

More than 100 shipwrecks preserved in Lake Huron's cold, clear fresh water

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Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve

Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve

Paradise, MI

The “Shipwreck Coast” of Lake Superior, near the final resting place of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve

Mackinaw City, MI

Wrecks scattered across the strait connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron

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San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve

San Pedro, CA

A Gold Rush-era shipwreck preserved as a California state underwater park

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Lake Ontario Shipwreck Preserves

Oswego, NY

State-designated wreck sites in the cold fresh water of eastern Lake Ontario

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Graveyard of the Atlantic

Graveyard of the Atlantic

Hatteras, NC

Hundreds of wrecks off North Carolina's Outer Banks, claimed by storms, shoals and wartime U-boats

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Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary

Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary

Nanjemoy, MD

The “Ghost Fleet”: hundreds of WWI-era wooden steamship wrecks visible from a kayak, one of the largest shipwreck concentrations in the Western Hemisphere

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Lake Champlain Underwater Historic Preserves

Burlington, VT

Vermont's freshwater shipwreck trail, with vessels dating back to the Revolutionary War

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