Important changes have occurred since we last featured this Huntsville, Texas, dive site five years ago. For starters, Blue Lagoon has new owners: Jake Newman, who has managed the site since June 2004, and Phil and Sharla Riggs, who have owned and operated the air fill station since 2007. Immediate plans call for improvements to the sites shelter, road and training platform.
Blue Lagoon is actually two lagoons. Nondivers are permitted to enter the site with divers, but the lagoons are not open to swimmers. Three large dive platforms exist in one lagoon and two are in the other. Shelters around both lagoons provide shade and equipment assembly areas for dive classes, and gently sloping beaches for easy entry. An area on the far side of Lagoon I near the boat and rock walls offers the option of a giant- stride entry.
Depths to: 35 feet (11 m) in Lagoon 1 and 30 feet
(9 m) in Lagoon 2.
Visibility: Up to 50 feet (15 m).
Water temperature: 70-90 degrees Fahrenheit
(21-32 degrees Celsius) in the summer and 45-75 F (7-24 C) in the winter.
Aquatic life: The water has very little life.
Fees: $15 per diver and nondivers; $8 for air fills.
Open: March through the second weekend of December; other times by appointment with a six-person minimum. Hours vary by season.
Getting there: From Interstate 45 north of Huntsville, Texas, take Exit 123 and travel three miles east on Pinedale Road until you reach Blue Lagoon.
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Important changes have occurred since we last featured this Huntsville, Texas, dive site five years ago. For starters, Blue Lagoon has new owners: Jake Newman, who has managed the site since June 2004, and Phil and Sharla Riggs, who have owned and operated the air fill station since 2007. Immediate plans call for improvements to the sites shelter, road and training platform.
Blue Lagoon is actually two lagoons. Nondivers are permitted to enter the site with divers, but the lagoons are not open to swimmers. Three large dive platforms exist in one lagoon and two are in the other. Shelters around both lagoons provide shade and equipment assembly areas for dive classes, and gently sloping beaches for easy entry. An area on the far side of Lagoon I near the boat and rock walls offers the option of a giant- stride entry.
