New Jersey Coast Dive Sites Chart

NJ Chart        Sandy Hook Chart Manasquan Chart Barnegat Chart  Cape May Chart  Manasquan Inlet Sea Girt Inlet  Barnegat Inlet  Little Egg Inlet Brigantine Inlet Absecon Inlet   Great Egg Inlet Corsons Inlet   Townsends Inlet Hereford Inlet  Cape May Inlet  Delaware Bay    Edmund Phinney  Lizzie Brayton  New Era         Antioch         Rjukan          Raritan Bay     Jetties         Jetties         Jetties         Remedios Pascual Meta            Seaside pipeline Raritan Bay     Shark River     Barnegat Bay    Raritan River   Atlantus        Thurmond        Sindia          John Minturn    Manasquan Wreck Del Water Gap   Dutch Springs   Round Valley    Allenhurst Jetty Bluffs Wreck    Pliny           Dual Wrecks     Western World   Shark River     Sumner          NJ Aquarium     Chauncey Jerome Long Branch Pier Lavallette Wreck Mullica River   Aurora

New Jersey Coast Dive Sites


Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship
Sunk:
Saturday December 14, 1907
ran aground 72 mph gale - no casualties (incredible)
Depth:
25 ft

400 yards offshore, mostly buried, wooden


Shipwreck Pliny
Type:
shipwreck, steamer, England
Built:
1878, England
Specs:
( 288 x 33 ft ) 1671 gross tons, 55 passengers & crew
Sunk:
Saturday May 13, 1882
ran aground - no casualties
Depth:
25 ft

Manasquan River
Aerial shot of the entire Manasquan River estuary, looking southeast. The Railroad Bridge dive site is at the upper-right.

The Manasquan River is overall not as nice a place to dive as the Shark River. The currents are stronger, the water never seems as clean, and the bottom is silty wherever it is not covered with mussels. The inlet jetties can be downright dangerous, and the boat traffic in the channel there is often very heavy. Off the north jetty is the so-called "Manasquan Wreck", but this is a long swim from shore and probably best approached with a boat.


Hudson & East Rivers
The Verrazano Narrows at the mouth of the Hudson River.

Looking roughly south: Sandy Hook is barely visible at upper-right, Rockaway inlet at the upper-left, Brooklyn at lower-left, Staten Island at lower-right. The shipping channel is also plainly obvious.


Beach Jetties

Dozens of jetties up and down the coast have been cut-though at the base like this one, making them inaccessible to fishermen, but not divers !


Shipwreck John Minturn
Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
Built:
1841, Westerly RI USA
Specs:
( 119 x 27 ft ) 398 tons
Sunk:
Thursday February 15, 1846
ran aground in storm - approximately 10 survivors and 40 dead
Depth:
20 ft

Lionfish

Pterois volitans

Size: to 17", usually smaller

Habitat: turning up all along the East Coast

Notes: venomous spines

This Indo-Pacific scorpionfish has been sighted in the wild in Florida and the Caribbean since the 1990s. In 2000 it began appearing off North Carolina. Two juveniles were found off Long Island in 2002, and in 2003 a two-inch yearling was collected in the Shark River. Of course, this popular pet is sighted daily in public and private aquariums all over the world.

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