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Dec 24, 2010

UPDATE!!!

Undersea Adventures is back to offering scuba diving tours of the flooded missile silo near Royal City, Washington!!!  This is the best day ever!

Check their website for prices and a schedule.  Be sure to check out the artist's rendition of the entire complex: under the form on http://www.underseaadventures.net/silo.htm.

 

2/8/2010

A few years ago I heard that a friend of a friend had gone scuba diving in a missile silo in central Washington.  It sounded like something that I should be doing too.  It took some digging but I finally found out where they must have gone: Site 568-C near Royal City, Washington.  This is an underground silo that formerly held one of the gigantic Titan 1 missiles.  What an awesome place to go diving!

I contacted a dive shop in Tri Cities (Undersea Adventures) that used to lead trips there.  The silo is on (or under) a farmer's property.  It sounds like there is some kind of issue with some contaminated dirt that is somewhere near the silo.  I was under the impression that the "contamination" is from small fuel spills that you would expect on a farm.  It didn't sound like a big deal (to a non-government official), but it is enough to temporarily put a stop to the diving.  Which doesn't seem fair because I really want to go there.  Maybe somebody out there knows how to deal with dirty dirt and can help solve this problem...

I found a great article about diving the silo (linked below).  You should check it out - it sounds very very cool!  It sounds like there is a network of tunnels and support silos but most people are only allowed into the main silo.




More Information:
Northwest Diver Article - Archived version of great article.
Undersea Adventures

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