Tucked between farmlands around 45 minutes east of Ellensburg, WA is a large privately owned land swath with scattered heavy machinery, assortments of pipe, and a 1960s Titan 1 Missile Silo. If you’d like to move directly to my latest GoPro video album, find it at https://gopro.com/v/611754f1-6fa5-47fd-88ea-61b8400992a4.
There are three launch tubes, but only two that you will dive.
The first part of the silo dive takes the longest. You will navigate through the 10 foot tube sections in waist high water. At times, you will surface swim because the water gets high enough to do so. This tube is mostly void of the walking platforms, which is why there are steel beams across the bottom of the tube sections.
Your first silo dive has the clearest water and is around 1-2 degrees warmer; this trip, the silo was 51 degrees of fresh groundwater all of the way down to 105 feet. You’ll step off a platform and descend. The cylindrical silo has a square i-beam structure all of the way to the bottom, which was used as a maintenance and support structure for the missile.
This Silo dive was on March 15, 2026.
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