Diving the Niagara Frontier: A Skill-Based Guide to Buffalo's Shipwrecks
Diving the Niagara Frontier: A Skill-Based Guide to Buffalo's Shipwrecks
Cold Water Diving

The eastern end of Lake Erie and the upper Niagara River sit on top of one of the densest concentrations of accessible shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. This post is a guided tour of those wrecks. We've grouped them by what they actually take to dive: starting with sites that work for newly certified divers, to intermediate boat dives, and ending with the swift-water sites that should only be on the list for divers who already know what they're doing in a current.

Niagara River Drift Dive
Drift Dive
The Buffalo area has many things that it is famous for whether it be it's chicken wings, hot sauce, bison chip dip or the Buffalo Bills losing four straight super bowls and yes even Niagara Falls. What most people do not realize is that the Niagara River is world-famous for SCUBA Diving. The river is probably the most popular dive in the area, divers come from all over the world to dive the river, whether it be from Germany, Ukraine or even many divers from the USA travel here to dive the river.