The swimming lake offers several entry points for a dive, and registration is NOT required. Important note: Do not dive below or even in the area of the lifts at the Northbound wakeboard facility during operating hours!

The Banter See is a large rectangular 22m deep sailing, diving, surfing and swimming lake. Separated from the North Sea by the Grodendamm embankment, the lake still has a slight salt content today. Ruins, the bow of a harbor barge and blown-up quays can be found on site due to the war.

Gasselterveld is a beautifully located dive site in Drenthe. It is a deep lake with clear water and fine sand. There are no fish, but you dive in a beautiful environment with good visibility and a nice sloping bottom.

The Blankenburg Lake, known to divers as “Blanki“, is a 21.5 hectare large and 16m deep rectangular quarry lake. Excavated for highway construction, the lake is now known as a fishing, diving and swimming lake. One of the entrances can be reached on the north bank from the parking lot via a trail.

Near the border with Ter Apel (Groningen, Netherlands) lies Dankern. A lake with light blue water and a nice underwater park. Not much life, but the visibility and the nice objects makes up for this.

Typical freshwater dredge lake with good parking and very good accessibility. The entrances are easy and can be mastered without problems for all levels of training.

Speicherbecken in Geeste is an is an artificially constructed water basin with a capacity of 23.4 million m3. There is a lot of eel and walleye. Also various objects! A nice place to dive!

The “ Kleine Surfplas“ is one of the two Lakes in the recreation area “Nijstad”. Diving in this area is monitored by Dive2adventure. The Diving is ONLY allowed by pre-registering with Dive2adventure (info@dive2adventure.nl). Dive2adventure is currently working on construction of a underwater park in this lake.

Kreide-See is a well known and popular diving lake. In former times chalk was mined here. The roads, the vibrator, trucks, conveyor belts, and some machines that were needed for the mining can still be visited underwater.

Entry can be reached via the large meadow in the direction of the jetty and takes you directly to the platform at 5 meters. Very good for skill exercises.