Connecticut & Rhode Island Scuba Diving
About Connecticut & Rhode Island
Connecticut and Rhode Island offer excellent New England diving with kelp forests, historic wrecks, and productive marine habitats in Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound. Rhode Island's Newport and Narragansett Bay feature colonial-era wrecks, seal colonies, and kelp beds with tautog and black sea bass. Block Island provides advanced diving with dramatic underwater cliffs, lobster-filled crevices, and pelagic encounters. Connecticut's New London area features the USS Nautilus submarine museum area wrecks and productive reef sites. Fishers Island Sound offers sheltered diving with diverse invertebrates and fish. The mixing of Long Island Sound and Atlantic waters creates species diversity unusual for the latitude including both northern and southern marine populations.
Highlights
- ✓Block Island underwater cliffs and lobsters
- ✓Newport seal colonies and kelp beds
- ✓Fishers Island Sound sheltered diving
- ✓Narragansett Bay historic wrecks
- ✓Connecticut reef and invertebrate sites
Dive Site Map: Connecticut & Rhode Island
1 mapped dive sites in this region. Click a marker for a quick look and a link to the full site guide.
Getting There
Fly into the nearest regional airport and arrange ground transport. Local dive operators provide boat access to offshore sites.
Local Transport
Rental cars provide flexibility. Local dive boats operate from main harbors.