According to a post on divevets.com, Dive Bum Don and Max Bottomtime have reported that coastal access will be closed for the next 30 days to finish “beach renovation” at Terranea resort.

I think yesterday was probably the last taste of diving and debriefing at “The Old Marineland” as we knew it.

With the scheduled opening of Terranea Resort this coming June, FOX 11 News did a story this morning about the job fair and how 500 jobs will be created when the resort opens.

The video can be seen here.

I came across an interesting CNN video that shows some SCUBA divers stumbling across a submerged hotel in 300 feet of water.

I never have thought about taking a diving vacation to South Carolina, but I’ll certainly have to consider it now.

Unfortunately, I’m neither certified for a 300 foot dive, nor do I have the equipment.

Attakulla Lodge was assumed to have been destroyed during the creation of South Carolina’s man-made Lake Jocassee, but divers have found the hotel, intact, in 300 feet of water.

The hotel, was part of a neighborhood called Jocassee Valley.

In 1973, the Duke Power Plant wanted to fend off four rivers and built a dam which flooded the valley and created the lake.

The hotel was believed to have been destroyed until the SCUBA divers recently found it intact.

The video can be seen here.