Twin Lakes Scuba Park, Manvel, Texas

The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory is an astronaut training facility and neutral buoyancy pool operated by NASA and located at the Sonny Carter Training Facility, near the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

This is a lake available to swimmers, scuba divers and fishermen. People use this lake to train for triathlons and other water activities. There are boats, boat motors, bathtubs, and other items sunken to find while scuba diving.

This is Divetech’s state-of-the-art training pool. It was built on January of 2012. It has a retractable floor system that allows to establish variable depths.

Come visit our beautiful soft water pool! What is soft water you ask? It’s all the pros of a Salt Water Pool with none of the salt. Your skin will fell soft when you get out of the pool, and your eyes will either not burn or burn much less than a traditional chlorine or salt water pool.

Located just one hour south from downtown Houston, Texas, this 70 acres dedicated scuba park is a fun destination for scuba divers of all levels. For more information please check their website: https://mammothlaketexas.com/

This is a disused quartz rock quarry, which is now filled with water. Maximum depth 8 - 10m. Phone 936-438-8888, call ahead to make reservations for dives and check rates. Website: bluelagoonscuba.net. Visit website to check rules and fees.

The Kraken wreck is located 58 nautical miles off Galveston, TX into the Gulf of Mexico. On January 20, 2017 Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Ship-to-Reef program successfully sunk the 371-foot cargo vessel. The reef site, designated as HI-A-424, encompasses an area of 80 acres to explore beyond the immediate feature.

Stetson Bank, located at the westernmost end of the sanctuary, is an oblong, mid-shelf bank made of uplifted siltstone and claystone. It was added to the sanctuary when Congress reauthorized the National Marine Sanctuaries Act in 1996.

Water entry is off of very large boulders. Incoming/outgoing tides need to be considered. BE AWARE people are fishing in the adjacent along the Jetty. Visibility varies with tides and weather (fair to poor). Sandy bottom around 20-foot depth (+/-) dependent on the tide.

At the headwaters of the San Marcos River, more than 200 artesian springs bubble up to form Spring Lake. Here, human history stretches back more than 12,000 years to the last ice age and natural history even further. Spring Lake is a jewel for divers.