Deep sea tycoon missile silo3/31/2024 ![]() Owned by the Hannifins (of Family Scuba Center in Midland, Texas) who bought the silo on 11 acres of land, curiosity got the better of them and they wanted to dive in the silo to see what was in the water. The 1,288 ton (1,159 m tons) concrete and steel cylindrical “pool” is 60-foot (18-m-) wide and drops to a depth of 127 feet (38 m) with nearly 2 million gallons (7.6 million liters) of clear dive-able water in it. Decommissioned just after two years of completion in the early 1960’s during the cold war, the silo which used to house a 82-foot- (25-m-) long nuclear-tipped Atlas missile before was left to fill up with groundwater when abandoned. ![]() Well if you haven’t already figured from the title, we’re talking about diving in a decommissioned (obviously!) Nuclear Missile Silo in Texas.ĭive Valhalla as the missile silo is known, gets its name from Norse mythology and is the largest indoor deep-diving training facility in the World. ![]() If you think you’ve heard of all the unusual diving there is, think again! Although we’ve covered some pretty unusual dive sites and offbeat dive destinations in the past that include, diving between continents in Iceland, Ice diving in Antarctica and the Arctic White Sea, diving in Blue Holes or the Eagle’s Nest sinkhole in Florida and even diving in a Crater in Utah, this particular dive site just outside of Abilene, Texas takes the cake. ![]()
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