Diving in New Mexico,


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  • The Scuba Company. 2715 San Mateo NE, Albuquerque 87110 Tel: 505-888-7990. E-mail: scubaabq@thuntek.net
  • New Mexico Scuba Center, 7618 Menaul NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87110, 505-271-0633, www.nmscuba.com, nmscuba@qwestoffice.net
  • Frontier Sports. 4601 E Main St, Farmington 87402 Tel: 505-327-0800
  • Dive Quest Scuba, LLC 525 E. Madrid Street, Las Cruces 88001 Tel: 505-525-3483 Fax: 505-524-2258 E-mail: Divequestnm@zienet.com 

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These centers may provide air:

  • Divers II Dive Centers. 633 Highway 70, West Alamogordo 88310 Tel: 505-437-5610
  • Divers of New Mexico. 117 N. Main Street, Lovington 88260 Tel: 505-396-3483
  • Aqua Sea Sports. 3969 Spring Branch Road, Roswell 99201-9624 Tel: 505-623-9005
  • The Scuba Co. 4350 Airport Road #6, Santa Fe 87505 Tel: 505-438-3006

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New Mexico Scuba Center, 7618 Menaul NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87110, 505-271-0633, www.nmscuba.com, nmscuba@qwestoffice.net Frontier Sports. 4601 E Main St, Farmington 87402 Tel: 505-327-0800
 
Blue Hole
Santa Rosa, NM
This is mostly a training location for New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas dive shops. It gets a lot of use in the summer, so parking can be a problem at times. It is bell shaped (about 30 feet wide at the top and 60 feet wide at the bottom) and 80 feet deep, but the altitude equates it to a 100' dive. There are two training platforms, one at 30 feet and the other at 40 feet, and an air fill station right next to the hole. The temperature is 62 degrees year round. The visibility in the morning is phenominal. If you are one of the first to arrive you can see from the surface to the bottom. After a couple of classes get done the vis can drop to about 30 feet, but clears within an hour due to the flow from the caverns below. The Army Corps of Engineers has blocked off the caverns, so don't get your hopes up for that. Diving it is a bit like diving Homestead Crater in Utah, but without the dome and a bit more interesting. There are a few fish and, depending on the season, crawdads. Not a bad place to visit.