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Anyone in the Coon Rapids area want to dive Labor day
09-02-2010, 07:06 PM, (This post was last modified: 04-14-2020, 10:13 AM by DetectorGuy.)
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Re: Anyone in the Coon Rapids area want to dive Labor day
I am not sure if I can make it on Sunday or not, but If I can't, Here are the coords to the small wrecks on Spectacle:
Small wood boat with blocks in it sitting in 17' of water just south of the green wood boat house that is just North of Buckhorns Resort: N45 34.311' W93 224.704' This boat has a classic shape and I like the way the seats and the stern look. Worth diving if you dive this lake.
The upside down sailboat is in 20' of water: N45 34.230' W93 24.257'. This boat isn't much to see but there should be a dead muskrat near it and a 41' deep area just out from there going West.
The metal lifeguard tower is in about 30' deep water: N45 34.351' W93 24.510' This is in the silty bottom.
There is a small crater in the silt soup bottom at about 39' deep with a plowed trail where a small airplane crashed in the 1960's: N45 34.439' W93 24.620'. There is nothing to see here except a 3' deep hole with vertical sides in the pudding like silt where the plane was at one time. The 40 something years haven't eroded this hole as the top of the hole is at 36' deep.
Buckhorns Resort is West of the boat ramp (across the lake) and there is a nice 45 degree slope on the sandy bottom there with misc trinkets there. The resort has a line of wood changing rooms that run parallel to the shore about 60' back on shore. This area has be dove heavily so any treasure would be new or worthless bottles. Mankes Resort is on the South shore and has small white cabins (I think) I haven't dove here much but holds the promise of good junk.

All the sites l have listed here are probably best dove from a boat as the surface swim from the boat ramp would be brutal at best.

From what I can tell there is not that great of diving here below 25' as the bottom turns to crap deeper than 23' The weeds this time of year probably are thick above 16' deep so that gives you a narrow slot of what I would call great local diving between 16' and 25'.
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Re: Anyone in the Coon Rapids area want to dive Labor day - by DetectorGuy - 09-02-2010, 07:06 PM

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