Big Mama ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Big Mama

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1925, Bethlehem Wilmington, Wilmington DE as Stroudsburg
Specs:: ( 103 ft ) 195 GT
Sponsor:: Hay's Tug & Launch, GDF, Jersey Fresh Seafood Festival
Sunk:: Sunday June 9, 1995 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°13.961' -74°12.926'
Depth:: 75 ft

Built in 1925, by the Bethlehem Steel Company Incorporated of Wilmington, Delaware ( hull #3497 ) as the Stroudsburg for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad of Lackawanna, New Jersey. The tug was later sold and renamed Breton, then Seminole, and then Brigitte Harper. In 1962, the tug was re-powered with a Fairbank-Morse 38D diesel engine, for a rated 1,800 horsepower. Later acquired by the Hay's Tug and Launch Company of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and renamed Big Mama.

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Night Diving

Unlike ( or just like ) the Caribbean, diving in New Jersey is actually better at night in many ways. That's obviously not true if you are out to survey a shipwreck, but for inlet diving, there is no comparison. During the day, the day critters will be wide awake, and you won't be able to get near them, while the night critters will be down in their holes where you'll never see them.

At night, you can go right up to the sleeping day critters and pinch them, even the fish. Some even seem mesmerized by your light, which will also draw in many small invertebrates by itself. Meanwhile, the night critters will be out prowling around, including the king of all night critters, the lobster. And if you shut off the light and wave your hands vigorously, the bioluminescents will put on a show for you.

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