USS Oriskany - Pensacola SCUBA diving

If you are a SCUBA diver! Then you want to go diving this one-in-a-life-time dive site. This is the USS Oriskany only aircraft carrier accessible for the majority of SCUBA divers and the largest artificial reef ever created.

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Diving the Oriskany reef

For recreational/sport divers the Oriskany dive is a deep dive. While the island can be reached at 70 ft the everlasting experience in this dive is at 120-130ft hovering above the flight deck looking down after USS Oriskany Dive Pensacola her sides where the abundance of marine life gathers in the many features of the top 20 ft of the ship. 120-130 ft is deep for a recreational diver and bottom times can be as short as 11 min (if all time is spent at 130ft).

For technical divers diving Oriskany is a fairly shallow dive and an outstanding training site. With large overhead environments at only 150ft and a "false" bottom at 130ft the site is perfect for all training with air and nitrox, and introduction to trimix.

Your safety is our Priority

Our customer's, crew's and boat's safety is number one, our crew and staff is trained for it and gets evaluated by it.

We expect you to plan your dive and dive your plan. SCUBA diving is a safe sport if you follow your training, experience and judgment.

USS Oriskany reef, a long journey ending

It has been a long and many times unexpected journey for the USS Oriskany. With her keel laid in 1944 she didn't get commissioned until 1950. Completely overhauled in 1957 and then ravaged by fire in 1966. Sold for scrap in 1995 and taken back by the Navy in 1997. Solicited for an artificial reef in 2001 then awarded to Florida and Pensacola in 2003. Scheduled for sinking in 2004 but PCB and hurricanes delayed it until 2006.