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Tobacco Pointe

Tobacco Pointe reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat, USA
Built:
1954, Calumet Shipyard & Drydock, Calumet IL as Sharon Lee
Specs:
( 89 x 26 ft ) 167 gross tons
Sponsor:
thesportfishngfund.org, Ann E Clark Foundation
Sunk:
Thursday June 16, 2016 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°14.038' -74°12.568'
Depth:
75 ft

Built in 1954 by the Calumet Shipyard and Dry Dock Company of Chicago, Illinois ( hull #220 ) as the Sharon Lee, for the A.L. Mechling Barge Lines of Joliet, Illinois. In 1967, the tug was acquired by the Gulf Atlantic Towing Company of Lafayette, Louisiana, a subsidiary of Brusco Tug and Barge Incorporated of Longview, Washington.

In 1972, she was acquired by the Allied Transportation Company of Norfolk, Virginia, where the tug was renamed Heron. In 1994, the tug was acquired by the Providence Steamboat Company of Providence, Rhode Island. In 1994, she was acquired by Robbins Maritime Incorporated of Norfolk, Virginia, and renamed Bay Prince. In 1999, the tug was acquired by the Blaha Towing Company of Suffolk, Virginia, and renamed Tobacco Pointe.

In 2012, she went out of documentation. The tug was scrapped along the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River near Norfolk, Virginia. She was a single screw tug, rated at 1,800 horsepower.

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Tobacco Pointe reef
Tobacco Pointe reef

Towed in tandem with the dredge barge Ohio from Norfolk Virginia, the Richard Reina served as the platform for the crew to prepare and deploy the Ohio on the Ocean City reef on the morning of June 16, 2016. Justin then towed the Richard Reina north to the Atlantic City Reef.

Tobacco Pointe reef
Sunk by knocking out "soft patches" installed in the hull, using a sledgehammer

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Lobstering - Know Your Foe

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This little guy will be safe from divers for a while. Notice how the tailings of his excavation are a different color than the surrounding bottom.

Lobsters, like most invertebrates, have a much slower nervous system than our own. In tiny creatures, such as insects, this is no great disadvantage, since their "wire runs" ( or nerves ) are so short. However, in bigger invertebrates, this translates into very long reaction times. Therefore, big lobsters have slow reflexes, much slower than even humans. Another common invertebrate trait is a lack of stamina, at least compared to us. In other words, they tire quickly in a chase. This is not to say that they lack tenacity - once they get a good grip on you, they can hold on forever, and even breaking the claw off may not cause it to release.

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