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Join Dive West ® and Sandi Zoch for a unique experience in diving, Valhalla Missile Silo, a decommissioned and diveable Atlas-F thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silo. It was commissioned in 1955 as part of 12 silos making up the Dyess AFB missile complex near Abilene, TX.
Sep 21, 2014 · Valhalla is a decommissioned Atlas-F hardened nuclear missile silo located near Abilene, Texas. It is actually part of a complex of 12 silos located around Texas and formerly run by Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene. To learn more about the silos check out this guy’s site: Phildorsett.com.
Join this exclusive OCD Divers drive and dive trip to dive the Valhalla missile silo. The silo is outside the city limits of Abelene, only 200 miles from DFW airport. Click here for a location map and driving directions. $225 per person admission, which includes: Two days diving. Altitude Diver certification.
Mar 9, 2010 · Nuclear Missile Silo in Texas. Dive Valhalla as the missile silo is known, gets its name from Norse mythology and is the largest indoor deep-diving training facility in the World. Decommissioned just after two years of completion in the early 1960’s during the cold war, the silo which used to house a 82-foot- (25-m-) long nuclear-tipped Atlas ...
Dec 12, 2014 · I had driven for hours to the middle of a rolling prairie about 20 miles south of Abilene for a chance to dive the Valhalla Missile Silo, one of 12 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile sites that the U.S. military built in Texas in the 1960s to brace for nuclear war.
