The Texas Clipper has been Reefed!

http://www.thetexasclipper.com

We are offer diving adventures to the Texas Clipper.

The Texas Clipper is a multilevel dive, meaning experienced, open-water certified divers can explore the sun deck, navigation deck and the promenade at 65 to 70 feet. Penetration divers, experienced with overhead environments, can tackle interior spaces. Meanwhile, because much of the wreck is more than 70 feet above the bottom.

The Texas Clipper can be compared to a large museum, requiring scuba divers to make several trips to fully appreciate it because of the size. "The ship is so large you can dive a hundred times and still not see everything," Captain O’Leary says.

TONS OF STEEL!  2 dives on the Texas Clipper and one rig dive $225.00 3 Tank All Day Trip. Includes Tanks and Weights, Breakfast, Lunch, Soft drinks 2 dives on the Texas Clipper $175.00  2 Tank Trip. Includes Tanks and Weights, Breakfast, Sodas

• Nitrox available for $10/cylinder
• American Diving offers two tank trips for recreational divers
• Technical dive trips with room for doubles, rebreathers and/or scooters are also available.
• Rebreather support is available at American Diving.

The U.S.T.S. Texas Clipper is a 473 ft. decommissioned Texas Maritime Academy ship that served students and sea cadets at Texas A&M University at Galveston from 1965 to 1996. She has spent many days at sea and students have spent countless hours on her decks and in her cabins.

The Texas Clipper was originally commissioned as the U.S.S. Queens in 1944, a troop transport ship that served her country well in World War II. She ferried fresh troops into battle and shuttled the wounded from Iwo Jima. She was also part of the American occupation at Sasebo, Japan. She was decommissioned in 1946. From 1946 to 1958, she was commissioned the S.S. Excambion and served as one of the post-war aces from American Export Lines. As a cruise liner, she sailed to ports throughout the Mediterranean Sea.

On March 31, the Texas Clipper will find her final place seventeen miles east of the South Padre Island jetties in 134 feet of water with the wheel house and cabins in 50 to 70 feet of water. This will become the largest fish attracting device in Texas.

Barnacles, corals, sponges, clams, bryozoans, and hydroids will soon take their station on her surfaces and fish and mobile invertebrates such as rock crab will come to feast on the bounty she attracts.

Old images as of February 19, 2007 (Check out http://www.thetexasclipper.com for latest photos)

American Diving
33256 Park Road 100 Suite 104, South Padre Island, Texas 78597
Telephone (956) 761-2030  -  Fax (956) 761-6039
amdiving1@aol.com

 

LINK TO LOCAL SEA STATE

Important Links:

1.)  NOAA Weather Service
2.)  SPI Dive Week Sept 17-27
3.)  Commercial Diving
4.)  Texas Clipper Reefed!
5.)  Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles
6.)  SPI Convention Center
7.)  Instructor Training

 

 

Need Directions to American Diving?

Take a right off of the bridge. Continue 1/3 of a mile. Look right and you will see large blue and white building, The Sea Ranch Marina. Take a right and go to the red and white dive flag.

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