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Fall 2024 News

 We would like to thank everyone for a great summer diving season. Over the course of our 50-odd fun dives we put over 900 divers in the water. The season was finished off with our 26th annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving contest, where over 30 hearty divers confused some local fish with their pumpkin butchery.

As always, November is our time to reduce our hours a bit -to allow the staff to take some time off after a very busy summer. Both stores will only be open on Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout the month of November 

 

Brainerd: Wed. 9:30 - 5:30 and Sat. 9 - 5

St. Cloud: Wed. 9:30 - 5:30 and Sat. 9 - 5

 

We will return to normal hours in December

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Learn to Dive

Since our founding in 1959, MSD has been providing quality PADI education ranging from Discover Scuba to Divemaster. 

50 Dive Sites Just Minutes from
MSD Brainerd!

Located just 12 miles from our Brainerd location near the towns of Crosby and Ironton, the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area  - home to some of the best diving in the Midwest. This beautiful park with its crystal-clear water filled mines boast submerged mine shafts, building foundations, vehicles, road beds, forests, shear walls and depths of up to 530 feet. The mines have been stocked with trout, bass and northern pike. It's also not uncommon to see loons swimming by. The main attraction though would have to be the visibility which ranges from 30 to 60 feet. â€‹

Bartendar Louise Cuyuna

These are some of our favorites...

WOMBAD Point Cuyuna
WOMBAD
Point
Pit: Mahnomen I
Dive Site Features:
Lots of Underwater Trees
Fish Life
Sheer Walls
Railroad Tracks
Jason Voorhees Cuyuna
Eternal Bliss
Pit: Louise
Dive Site Features:
Bartender
Sparky
Marissa the Mermaid
Jack Sparrow
Jason Voorhees
Fish Life
Skull on Staircase Stairway to Hell Cuyuna
Stairway to
Hell
Pit: Alstead
Dive Site Features:
Staircase
Car
Fish Life
Skeleton in Coffin Cuyuna
Sand Chute
Gulch
Pit: Mahnomen II
Dive Site Features:
Coffin with Skeleton
Pumping Pipes
Fish Life
Underwater Foosball Table Cuyuna
Connecticut
Two-Bit
Pit: Huntington
Dive Site Features:
Great Visibility
Fish Life
Roadway
Walls 
Railroad Tracks
Foosball Table
Flamingos
Vertical Mine Shaft Cuyuna
Gettin' The
Shaft
Pit: Huntington
Dive Site Features:
Vertical Mine Shaft
Fish Life 

The Minnesota School of Diving has created over 50 unique dive sites in the Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area - appropriate to all levels of experience. Our experienced staff of divemasters would love to show you some of their favorites. We sponsor group fun dives to the area up to 3 times a week in the summer. Divemasters can also be hired to lead you on individual dives. If you would rather go it alone, stop in the store for some suggestions and pick up some of our dive maps of the area. They describe what you'll see underwater at each of the different dive sites, and are the only maps that accurately depict the often confusing roads. 

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