Where Do You Learn?

Unless otherwise indicated, classroom sessions take place at Just Add Water. Our pool dive location is just minutes away. For open-water training, you can:

Accompany us on one of our many group dive vacations.
Complete your training dives on a vacation you already have planned.
Join us at White Star Quarry on one of our many open-water training weekends between May and October.

If time permits, we strongly encourage students to take advantage of the latter option, completing your training dives here in Ohio. Doing so offers a number of benefits:

If you do have a vacation planned, you won’t waste any of your valuable dive time kneeling on the sand, repeating beginner skills for the benefit of an instructor you may not even know.
You will use equipment with which you are already familiar, and learn from instructors you already know and trust.
Your diver training will not be limited to just how to dive in warmer water. You will learn how to dive under local conditions, and be able to take advantage of all of the local dive sites available right here at home.

Ohio is fortunate to have some of the best local diving in the country. The water is a lot warmer and clearer than people think — and you would be amazed at all there is to see and do.

More About White Star Quarry

With its proximity to a wide assortment of food and lodging, ample parking, easy entries and exits, good visibility and a wide variety of things to see and do under water, it’s no wonder White Star Quarry is our dive site of choice for open-water training.

This 15-acre, man-made like is part of the White Star County Park complex, with camping, boating, swimming and other activities readily available. In nearby Fremont, divers will find a wide selection of motels and eateries, eliminating the need to drive all the way back to Cleveland to overnight (and making for an enjoyable weekend getaway).

The lake also offers some unusual underwater sights, including:

A sheriff’s car with lights.
A traffic light,
An old-style telephone booth with doors.
A hay wagon.
A bicycle.
A motorcycle.

There is also the usual assortment of trucks and small boats. Visibility averages an unusually good 20 to 30 feet. Depths can reach 80 feet (but average 40 feet or less).

With so much to see and do, it’s easy to understand why White Star is among our favorite local dives.

Visit quarry website for latest information on admission fees.

White Star County Park
901 S Main St
Gibsonburg, OH 43431
(419) 637-3483
www.WhiteStarQuarry.com

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Directions

Take I-80 west to Exit 91. Go south.
Continue 2.3 miles on OH-53 to US-6. Turn right.
Follow the signs for US-20 west.

After merging on to US-20 west, continue 6.8 miles to OH-600. Turn left.
Continue 4.6 miles to downtown Gibsonburg. Turn left on to OH-300/South Main Street.
Continue 0.8 miles south. The park entrance will be on your left. Proceed to the scuba area in the back of the quarry.