Freshwater Diving
For landlocked divers, freshwater diving offers both a technical challenge and the chance to see freshwater fish species close up. Wrecks, drowned villages, and other features make freshwater diving unique from diving in the ocean, with a dedicated following among divers, even those who have dived for many years in the ocean.
Most freshwater dives are completed from the shore, and the lack of salt makes for a different experience from diving in the ocean, and weight belts will need to be adjusted.
Water temperatures are closely linked to the seasons, with most freshwater diving taking place in spring and summer. In some places, like central Florida, the water temperature can remain constant year round.
Diving in lakes, rivers, springs, quarries, and streams and can often be combined with caves, which require special training. Proper understanding of diving with ropes, and with low visibility, are essential to complete a safe freshwater dive.
The most popular type of freshwater diving is in lakes, which include Cozumel, in Lexico; central Florida; Lake Malawi, in Africa; the Lake District, in England; the Great Lakes, in the USA; Lake Baikal, in Russia; and Lake Tahoe, in California.