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[Doug B]

I'm in Indianapolis....not far from Erie and lake Michigan, obviously. Can anyone recommend good dive operators for the Northern Indiana area or Chicago area? Toledo maybe? I've always wanted to dive the great lakes, but not even sure where to start.

-Doug B

[SEMO Scuba]

My local dive club was talking about diving the Great Lakes a couple of years ago. We never went.

These are some of the dive operators we considered.

http://www.windycitydiving.net/
Windy City Diving
630-209-2445 Jim
They have 2 boats a take 5-6 divers per boat.
They do a 2 dive trip or a 3 dive trip
If we bring 6 divers we only pay for 5


http://www.doubleactiondivecharters.com/
Double Action Dive Charters
815-267-8400 Chris
One boat is at Waukegan IL harbor (Chicago area)
Other boat is at Hammond Indiana harbor
They usually take 6 divers. If we have 6 divers and charter the boat we only pay for 5. They do two (2) tank dives. One leaves port at 7 am and one at 12:30 pm



http://toucandive.com/
Toucan Dive Shop
Lake Villa IL
847-356-7826 Rick Smith
One boat up to 6 divers. They take two (2) tank dives daily. Cost for 6 divers for two (2) tank dives approx $850.00, or $142.00 per diver, or $36.00 per dive
Boat is at Winthrop Harbor north of Waukegan IL
Captain Dale Bennett owner of Captain Dale’s / Enterprise Marine no longer runs charters for divers. He recommended we call Toucan.



Also recommended by Captain Dale is:
http://www.pcdiving.com/index.htm
Pirates Cove Diving
Milwaukee WI
414-482-1430 Jerry Guyer
It appears from their website that Jerry runs these two charters
http://www.len-der.com/shipwreck/rates.php
http://www.pcdiving.com/charter_reefdiver.htm