New Jersey Scuba Diving

Colleen

Colleen reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat
Built:
1952, American Marine, New Orleans LA, USA
Specs:
( 92 x 25 ft ) 150 tons
Sponsor:
GPPCBA, Budweiser, GDF
Sunk:
Saturday August 3, 1996 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°02.794' -73°59.350'
Depth:
80 ft
Hess

The Colleen was a canal tugboat that towed barges on the Erie Canal between New York City and the Great Lakes. She also helped dock ships in port.

The Colleen is a near twin to the Spartan. At about 60 ft depth, large holes in the roof make it easy to drop down several decks inside the wreck and still have daylight in sight above. Look for lobsters dug in under the edges of the hull, along with a great many Sea Bass. The rudder is cranked 90 degrees to one side, leaving plenty of room to swim through the gap where the propeller should be. At least one APC lies close by off her stern, upside-down, and a reef ball lies on the aft deck.

Built in 1952, by Alexander Shipyard of New Orleans, Louisiana (hull #542) as the Rhea I. Bouchard for the Bouchard Transportation Company of Melville, New York. In 1952 the tug was acquired by the Moran Towing Company of New York, New York, and renamed Polly Moran. In 1958 she was acquired by Ira S. Bushey and Sons of Brooklyn, New York, and renamed Cardinal.

In 1972, the tug was acquired by the Kehoe Transportation Company of New York, New York and renamed Kehoe. However, the Kehoe Transportation Company later renamed the tug Colleen Kehoe. She was later acquired by the Mowbray Towing Corporation of New York, New York, and renamed Colleen. She was a single screw tug, rated at 900 horsepower.

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Colleen reef
Something unusual - the Colleen as she appears on an old-fashioned depth-finder trace, just minutes after sinking, with streams of bubbles rising from the wreck.
Colleen reef
A Reef Ball on the stern of the Colleen.
Colleen reef
Part of the wheelhouse.
Colleen reef
Inside the wheelhouse.

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Exposure Suits - Drysuits

drysuit

Serious New Jersey divers wear drysuits. A drysuit is a waterproof suit with built-in feet that seals around your neck and wrists ( some have built-in water-tight gloves and/or hoods as well, ) and a waterproof zipper to close it up. The idea is that although you are underwater, you don't get wet, but this is not entirely true. No seal is perfect, and certain actions will let small amounts of water leak in past the seals. However, most of the moisture that accumulates in a drysuit comes from its occupant, in the form of perspiration. If water can't get in, then it can't get out either. Perhaps these should be called dampsuits instead of drysuits.

Still, in cold water, a drysuit is much warmer than a wetsuit. This is because you maintain a constant layer of air between you and the cold, and air is an excellent insulator. While air is also the insulating factor in wetsuits, there is a difference. With either suit, the volume of air, and therefore the amount of insulation, compresses as you go deeper. With a wetsuit, there is nothing you can do about this, but with a drysuit, simply tap the inlet valve, and compressed air will flow from your tank into the suit, and puff it up again, keeping you warm. An added benefit is that by keeping the suit inflated to a constant volume, you maintain constant buoyancy, from the surface to the bottom, which can actually reduce the amount of lead you need to carry. Some divers even dispense with the BCD, considering that a drysuit can be thought of as a full-body BCD, but this is not recommended, and it is convenient to use the BCD as a quick trimming device and for surface flotation.

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