Underwater Connection's Pool, Colorado Springs

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Underwater Connection's Pool, Colorado Springs

★★★★☆

This training site is a custom built, 15ft pool, designed to meet all of the needs for training recreational, technical, and professional divers.

As a pool, the wildlife is hard to find. If you are lucky, you will find the ever elusive Troy fish!

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Asan, 30-130’+. Salvage area used to dump hundreds of WWII ammunition and artifacts. Very interesting historical dive. The steep drop off is host to numerous sea fans
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King’s Corner (★4.1)

King’s Corner is fabulous! A favorite of many! The top reef line is at 55ft/17m but its sweet spot is around 60-90ft / 18-28m. You can reach another sand line at 100ft/30m. Its best to visit here when its calm because viz can be less than 40ft /11m and a current is common.
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King’s Alley (★4.4)

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Alien Nation (★4.4)

Alien Nation is out of this world! Mooring line sits at depth of 45ft/14m. Reef slopes westerly until a sandy bottom at 90ft/28m. The sweet spot here is around 50-70ft / 15-20m range.
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Tide Bottle (★4.6)

Tide Bottle’s mooring line sits above a depth of 40ft/11m along a sandy reef line. Reef slopes west to 100ft/30m. Best reef & sponges are at 50-80ft/ 15-25m. Great spot to see stingrays, turtles, eels, & spear lionfish. Be aware of possible currents.
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The Aquarium in St Croix (★4.6)

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Tres Amigos (★4.3)

Tres Amigos is the very end of the Frederiksted Pier where you can explore the growth and fish that call the 3 large concrete columns home. The depth is 90ft/27m and its approximately 1550ft/470m from the shoreline. Its a long kick out, so best to explore from a boat.
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Triton’s Anchor (★4.5)

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Frederiksted Pier (★4.5)

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Cables (★4.2)

Spectacular patch reef with cables crisscrossing through coral and sponge growth. The surrounding area is mostly sandy bottom, so all of the wildlife congregates on the patch reef.
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Apocalyptic mayhem at 80ft/24m, remnants of the old Frederiksted pier that was destroyed in Hurricane Hugo were dumped on this site. Lots of beams, tires and twisted steel to explore. Some reef sharks get a little close on this dive. Sea floor is at 101ft/30m.
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Deep Wrecks at Bulter Bay (★4.6)

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Emerald Gardens St Croix USVI (★4.0)

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Cane Bay (★4.6)

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French Cap Pinnacle (★4.8)

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Wye Reef (★4.4)

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Buck Island Point (Submarine Alley) (★4.5)

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Cartanza Wreck (★4.5)

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Shipwreck Cove (★4.4)

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Coral Bowl (★4.5)

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Dive Flag Rock (★4.6)

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Shark Bowl (★4.4)

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