Athens Scuba Park

Athens Scuba Park is a nice place to visit if you are looking to sharpen your dive skills. There are many sunken items in the lake that can be used for navigation and wreck practice.

They also offer camping and the dive shop is well equipped with essential dove items.

Wow! If I could make this ten stars, I would. I took my son here for a day of diving for his birthday, which included a surprise of buying him a new piece of scuba equipment.

The staff is wonderful, attentive, and kind. They took great care of us and made my son feel so special on his birthday. In addition, I was astounded at the reasonableness of their pricing. Everything was priced below what I expected from previous experience at other shops and locations--from park fees and equipment rental to the equipment we purchased.

The park itself is awesome. Visibility was much better than similar locations I've dived. It probably didn't hurt that we were there on a weekday, with very few other divers stirring the waters, but I can only speak to what we saw, which was ideal. For instance, the sunken bus was visible from end to end both inside and out. That's twice as good as I expected. There were lots of sunken objects to explore and discover. My son was so excited to take a heading toward a buoy, then swim onward to see an airplane materialize out of the gloom. What a great experience!

Anyway. Ten stars. We'll definitely be heading back for fun and for our future equipment purchases.

This place is awesome! Came with my buddy, awesome people here as well in the dive shop. I'll definitely be back maybe for my next level certification.

AWESOME, we will be back. Saturday 6-20-2020 was the wife and my first time here. The staff is SUPER friendly and helpful. We enjoyed the entire day of snorkeling and are still talking about how fun it was!!

This was a great experience. I took my Advanced Open Water class here this weekend. The instructor was highly skilled and attentive, and Shannon could not have been more accommodating. I always am treated with great fondness and respect. This is a heck of a good dive shop.

Just completed my Scuba Certification class and was very pleased w/ the park and employees. Everybody was as friendly as it gets and knowledgeable about their craft. Real laid back atmosphere.

Nice scuba diving location. Located 1.5 hours from Dallas. A certification card is required to dive but a lot of scuba schools do their classes here. Lots of sunken stuff for underwater exploring ranging from airplanes to golf carts to school buses. They are sinking an airplane memorial day weekend 2011 so you can purchase tickets to ride the airplane down which is cool.

A nice family ran shop and the prices are very reasonable. It's only $5 to fill up on air. This place has night diving and overnight camping as well.

The water is more alkaline so there are no fishes in the water and the ground is made of clay so visibility can be quickly lost if the sediments are kicked up.

Descent place (get it?). Was a good dive spot for me and 3 of my buddies a couple of weeks ago. The owners were very friendly and nice. It wasn't an overly strict place, which I dislike when I run into at SCUBA sites. SCUBA diving is supposed to be chill, right?

A bit of a mix up with our site, but nothing big, we just moved down to the next one.

Air refills were quick and easy.

They put some pretty neat things down there. The planes were my favorite, followed by the houseboat. Got to practice my skills in entering wrecks. The sailboats were also pretty cool, as was the cave system. But I wouldn't do the cave system again without a flashlight... Do yourself a favor and bring one for that and the wrecks. Almost had a panic attack when I let a bigger diver in front of me into the caves who blocked out all the light ahead. Nothing like being in a solid black void in a confined sunken tube sucking air out of a hose to test your ability to not panic.

The only reason it's not 5 stars? The Vis was only about 6-8 feet. Definitely got to practice my navigation skills, and what to do when you lose your dive buddies, but it wasn't a deal breaker. Oh. And the thermocline... Bring a wetsuit. Brrr.

Dive many times people great good practice for wrecks distance navkust to name some
Has dive shop and showers cost is average for the few dive lakes in TX

Love this place. The owners are friendly and accomodating. Plenty of good
places to camp. Piers to enter and exit to keep from mucking up water too much.
Ive seen the visibility at 50'+ and I've seen it so bad I dove mask first into the
silt! (Treasure hunt. Really stirs up water!) For Texas lake diving, this is about
as blue as it gets!