Kraken Cove
Location: Nevada side of Black Canyon. About 1/4 miles in from the buoy line.
GPS Coordinates: 36° 1.512’N, 114° 43.800’W (approximate)
Elevation: Cables, steel drums and more at 1080′.
Cool tree stump at 980′ and much more even deeper.
Depth: Goes down to about 400 feet currently. See Lake Mead Water Elevation to compute desired depth based on current lake water elevation
This dive site is referred to by non-divers as “Nevada Cove”.
We coined the phrase Kraken Cove for this spot way back in 2008 because in our early technical diving days, it seemed to eat dive gear. If you’re gonna lose something, chances are it will be here. Kraken Cove is in Black Canyon right near Hoover Dam on the Nevada side. Treasures include beer bottles, fishing poles, sandals, and lots of sunglasses. My favorite find to date was a Jefferson Starship cassette tape beautifully preserved.
Black Canyon is deep, steep, and spooky as all hell. Even in the middle of the day, it can get pretty dark down in the depths near the opening to the Kraken’s lair.
Diving down, there’s shelves down to about the 910′ elevation, and then it just drops off into the abyss. At roughly 980′ in elevation, which was 150fsw in early 2008, there’s a tree stump coming out of the canyon wall, and the Kraken’s lair is directly below. At about 1080′ elevation, look for thick steel cabling strewn about, 50 gallon drums, and a cool winch, all left over from the construction of the dam in the 1930s.