Bell Island
Bell Island No. 2 Mine (Wabana)
Closed to divers
The mine is no longer dived: the dives stopped after 2024, the mine museum confirms (Nov 2026).
- Max depth36 m
- CertificationFull cave
- SpecialFlooded mine or quarry
Diving and fills
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Now at Bell Island No. 2 Mine (Wabana)
What it looks like
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Videos and posts
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Other people's footage, not advice: how someone else dives here says nothing about what suits your team. Dive within your training.
The dive
Underwater, with visibility of more than 10 m, you find a pumping station, stables, tools, mine carts, lunch kits, miners' graffiti in lampblack and white crosses where miners died (101 over the mines' history).
1 earlier accident or incident has been reported at this cave. Read what happened ↓
Profile and sections
Underwater, with visibility of more than 10 m, you find a pumping station, stables, tools, mine carts, lunch kits, miners' graffiti in lampblack and white crosses where miners died (101 over the mines' history).
The iron ore mine worked from 1895 to 1966; No. 2 Mine stopped in 1950.
- Depth and profile
- From 0 to ~36 m along the 10° slope (dives in 2016), deeper beyond; the maximum depth for divers is not documented. A permanent main line down the main shaft to ~30 m with jump lines (2007, ~2 km) and more than 400 m of new line (2016); only a small part of the more than 100 km of passages has line.
- Configuration
- Roomy mine drifts: backmount, sidemount or rebreather (for rent at Ocean Quest); drysuit for ~6 °C.
Who can dive where
- At least Full cave
- Configurations: Backmount / twinset / Sidemount / CCR / Small cylinders / no-mount (speleo sumps)
- Goes down to 36 m (trimix or deco may be needed)
- Experienced divers only
This is how the planner decides who in your team may dive this cave. Rules your own trip adds (organizer, a mail, the AI) show with your trip.
How to get there
Through the mine museum's entrance (13 Compressor Hill, Wabana): ~250 m of walking down a 10° slope to the water, with Ocean Quest's platforms and benches and a golf cart for the cylinders. Until 2024 guided only, through Ocean Quest; it has not been dived since.
Around Bell Island No. 2 Mine (Wabana)
FillsNo fill station known nearby
News
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Accidents and incidents
What happened at this cave before, with the sources. No names are given; read it as a lesson for your own planning.
- Fatal accident in 2007, during the first exploration (air embolism from an undiagnosed lung condition, in shallow water).
Access and rules change: check what applies locally right before your trip. Source: GDELT Project and the news feeds of diving magazines. Search for more news ↗ Searched automatically, last on 5 Nov 2026.
No provider in Bell Island yet
The caves here are listed as information only: we don't know a dive centre, guide or club yet that takes visitors, so you can't plan a trip here yet. Do you know one, or are you one? Let us know.