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Socatean

The pilot house belongs to the tugboat behind

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:: 1964, Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Somerset MA, as Joseph & Lucia II
Specs:: ( 88 x 23 ft ) 179 gross tons
Sunk:: Thursday January 4, 2024 - Mattituck Artificial Reef
Depth:: ~80 ft
GPS:: 40°03.396' -72°34.186'

a classic old side-trawler

It took some digging to figure out this one: built as Joseph & Lucia II in 1964 by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Somerset MA. Later renamed Christine & Julie, finally Socatean.

Georges Bank, 1980

as Christine & Julie in New Bedford MA, 2006
with expanded wheelhouse and modern outriggers

O/N 297224, IMO 6506616, MMSI 366917230

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Mattituck Artificial Reef

Mattituck Artificial Reef

Socatean

2.37 nautical miles northwest of Mattituck Inlet, 0.08 sq miles
Depth: 72 to 100 feet

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Rock Ridges

rock ridge

This site on the Shark River Artificial Reef consists of two long ridges of seven huge rock piles each, with one long valley east-west between them. Between piles, there are smaller valleys. Each ridge contains approximately two million tons ( or one million cubic yards ) of granite, blasted and dredged from the bottom of New York harbor between September 2002 and September 2003. Peak depths range from 85 to 105 ft, bottom depth is 130 ft. In addition, 15 Redbird subway cars were deposited on or near one of the piles. A similar rockpile is located in shallower water on the Axel Carlson Reef.

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