Calvin and Shannon Wilcher started Athens Scuba Park in 1986 and continue to run it today with the help of their son, Alex. This family of divers understand what it takes to have a good dive, and they ...

Athens Scuba Park is one big exotic lagoon in the Piney Woods of East Texas. From the aerial photographs you can make out the shapes of airplanes, buses, and Clint Eastwood's film crew's triple-decker ...

I went to Athens to check out Ray Price’s tour bus. Of course, Ray wasn’t in this particular bus, since it broke down long ago and now sits at the bottom of a 35-foot-deep, eight-acre reservoir at ...

ATHENS, Texas (AP) - Scuba divers splash into the silent underwater world and commence exploring sunken objects in a Caribbean-blue lake at an unlikely site inside this East Texas town's business ...

For a small, landlocked city, Athens offers a bounty of water-related experiences. There's fishing, of course. East Texas lakes have long been known for big bass. There's also boating, and there's ...

It’s not often air traffic controllers know when a plane will go down, particularly more than a week in advance. That’s the case, though, set for Memorial Day weekend at Athens Scuba Park in, well, ...

ATHENS -- Scuba divers splash into the silent underwater world and commence exploring sunken objects in a Caribbean-blue lake at an unlikely site inside this East Texas town's business district.