Staying Home Sucks, home

U.S.S Yankee Exempt Site

Dive site · United States

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

63Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

Best on Sun 8: Sea 0.4 m, Visibility under 5 m, Water 13 °C

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Tue 3 · 63 out of 100

Sea
0.3 m
Wind
8 kn
Gusts
10kn
Air
16°C

Wed 4 · 63 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
9 kn
Gusts
11kn
Air
16°C

Thu 5 · 63 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
8 kn
Gusts
9kn
Air
16°C

Fri 6 · 60 out of 100

Sea
0.5 m
Wind
12 kn
Gusts
15kn
Air
17°C

Sat 7 · 63 out of 100

Sea
0.4 m
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
6kn
Air
16°C

Sun 8 · 64 out of 100

Sea
0.4 m
Wind
1 kn
Gusts
11kn
Air
14°C

Mon 9 · 62 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
10 kn
Gusts
20kn
Air
14°C

Tap a day for sea, wind and water. Full forecast

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Mon 263, good
  2. Tue 363, good
  3. Wed 463, good
  4. Thu 563, good
  5. Fri 660, good
  6. Sat 763, good
  7. Sun 864, good
  8. Mon 962, good
  9. Tue 1060, good
  10. Wed 1161, good

The site in five facts

  • Down to 17 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Water 13 °C7 mm semi-dry or a drysuit
  • Faces Sswell from there reaches it

Full forecast

every day, every number

The score doesn't know currents, the visibility on the day or your certification.

Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. Scored for Advanced divers.

Sea and wind forecast and score for each day at U.S.S Yankee Exempt Site
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Mon 2Nov63, good0.2 mflat7 kn12kn15°C
Tue 3Nov63, good0.3 m8 kn10kn16°C
Wed 4Nov63, good0.2 mflat9 kn11kn16°C
Thu 5Nov63, good0.2 mflat8 kn9kn16°C
Fri 6Nov60, good0.5 m12 kn15kn17°C
Sat 7Nov63, good0.4 m5 kn6kn16°C
Sun 8Nov64, good0.4 m1 kn11kn14°C
Mon 9Nov62, good0.2 mflat10 kn20kn14°C
Tue 10Nov60, good0.4 m12 kn24kn12°C
Wed 11Nov61, good0.6 m10 kn16kn10°C

Sea is the waves near the site, in metres; wind and gusts in knots. "Boats in": gusts that keep dive boats in. More

Tide

  • Mon 2 NovHigh 01:08 +0.4 mLow 08:09 −0.3 mHigh 13:38 +0.6 mLow 21:01 −0.4 m
  • Tue 3 NovHigh 02:10 +0.5 mLow 09:24 −0.4 mHigh 14:37 +0.5 mLow 21:55 −0.4 m
  • Wed 4 NovHigh 03:09 +0.5 mLow 10:26 −0.4 mHigh 15:34 +0.5 mLow 22:44 −0.4 m

Local clock times; heights about mean sea level. On open coasts the times are usually within a quarter of an hour; in bays, estuaries and on the Gulf of Mexico they can be an hour or more out. Slack water, the safest time to dive where there is current, is about half an hour either side of each high and low. Tide: EOT20 global ocean tide model, Hart-Davis et al. 2021, DGFI-TUM (doi:10.17882/79489), CC BY 4.0. Times and heights computed by us. A model, not a tide table: check a local table before you go.

Forecast updated . It refreshes every three hours. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Map

the site and its town

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

About U.S.S Yankee Exempt Site

A wreck dive. It goes down to 17 m. You get in from a boat. It suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. The coast faces S: swell from the S reaches it, and wind from the N blows out to sea. No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 37 km away. The sea is about 3°C in February, its coldest month (drysuit), and 23°C in August, its warmest (5 mm wetsuit). The town to stay in is Falmouth.

  • What it is Wreck.
  • How deep Down to 17 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres No dive centre within 10 km, the nearest 37 km away.

Water about 13°C: 7 mm semi-dry or a drysuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

Visibility under 5 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Oct, Nov and Dec (under 5 m).

The score is the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change it (how we score, how we earn).

Rough cost (estimate): about US$966–US$1,740 each

about US$966–US$1,740 each · 6 nights, 2 sharing: flights, hire car, stay, food.

Our estimate from typical public prices, not a quote: check the real prices before you book (where they come from). Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 2 November 2026.

How we worked it out 
Rough cost per person for this trip
WhatHow we worked it outEach
Flightsreturn MDW to PVD, estimated from distance and season, 1 airline on the route, with a hold bagabout US$168–US$349
Hire car6 days, sharedabout US$154–US$255
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, sharedabout US$302–US$503
Food7 days eating outabout US$342–US$637
Totalabout US$966–US$1,740

Guided dives are not priced yet: we have no sourced price, so it is not in it. Prices from public sources, checked in 2026.

Where to stay: Falmouth

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Closest

Falmouth

about 40 min by car · 33 places to stay

about US$114/nightcountry average

See 33 places to stay in Falmouth · Booking.com

About Falmouth its beds, food and every spot near it

About US$114 a night is our estimate of the country's average 2-star double room that month: not each town's price, and not a quote. Drives are estimates. Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 2 November 2026.

Getting there: about 5h 20m

About 5h 20m door to door from Chicago

Fly MDW → PVD, direct, then 1h 10m by road

An estimate, one way; the journey never changes the score.

In the water

Dive centres nearby

No dive centre mapped within 25 km.

Dive centres: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Credits

What you might see

Too few records at this site itself, so these are the animals divers and surveys have recorded at other sites within 25 km in the last 15 years. A record says someone saw it there, not that you will.

  • Harbor seal Phoca vitulinaSeal or sea lion

    Seen in 17 records, mostly Oct to Feb.

  • Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus

    Seen in 5 records.

  • Bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix

    Seen in 4 records.

  • Atlantic needlefish Strongylura marina

    Seen in 4 records.

  • Atlantic silverside Menidia menidia

    Seen in 3 records.

Records: OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, IOC-UNESCO) and GBIF.org (1 November 2026, doi:10.15468/dl.jeesns), from the datasets named here, CC0 and CC BY records only. Names: WoRMS and GBIF; common names from the Catalogue of Life, the GBIF Backbone and Wikidata. Largest datasets here: iNaturalist Research-grade Observations; SERC Smooth Dogfish Study; Ocean Genome Legacy Collection. Credits

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