Sandy Point

Sandy Point reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat
Built:
1947, Gulfport Shipbuilding, Port Arthur, TX, as Captain Chris Harms
Specs:
( 85 ft )
Sunk:
Wednesday March 10, 2010 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:
38°40.540' -74°43.957'

Built in 1947, by Gulfport Shipbuilding of Port Arthur, Texas (hull #273) as Captain Chris Harms for Harms Marine Services Incorporated of Houston, Texas. In 1964, the tug was acquired by the Moran Towing Company subsidiary Curtis Bay Towing Company of Baltimore, Maryland, where she was renamed Sandy Point. In 1980, she was acquired by the Crescent Towing and Salvage Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, and renamed Lillian Smith. In 1991, the Crescent Towing and Salvage Company renamed the tug the Fort Conde. The tug was single-screw, rated at 1,000 horsepower.

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Leatherback Sea Turtle

Dermochelys coriacea

Size: to 70" and 1200 lbs.

Habitat: oceanic

Notes: The largest sea turtle in the world, and also the most likely to be seen in our cold waters, since Leatherbacks are at least partially warm-blooded! As implied by the name, they have a leathery flexible covering, rather than the bony hard shell of all other sea turtles - a unique feature that has caused them to be placed in a family of their own, apart from all other sea turtles. Leatherbacks feed on jellyfish.

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