New Jersey Scuba Diving

Type:

artificial reef, trawler

Built:

1956, Tampa Marine, Tampa FL USA

Specs:

( 65 ft ) 79 GT

Sponsor:

Grady family, Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association, Ocean Reef Foundation of New Jersey

Sunk:

Wednesday Sept 21, 2016 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef

GPS:

40°02.900' -73°59.000'

Depth:

80 ft

Austin was originally used as a shrimp boat that fished the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to as far south as Campeche, Mexico. She was bought in 1966 by a local fisherman, brought to Point Pleasant, and converted to a trawler. She fished the local waters until she was decommissioned in 2013.