New Jersey Scuba Diving

Bonito

Type:: shipwreck, charter boat
Built:: 1929, Carvel Beach, MD
Specs:: ( 48 ft )
Sunk:: Wednesday 7/20/1960
scuttled
Depth:: 80 ft

The Bonito was sunk as a "fish haven", an artificial reef in modern parlance. I'm sure there is nothing left of the wooden hull, and anything else has long since disappeared into the sand, but it is interesting for being one of the earliest documented reefs. Home port listed as Philadelphia.

from NJ Maritime Museum Shipwreck Database

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Bottom Composition

Mud Hole

With rare exceptions, scuba diving is a bottom-fixated activity. In the region covered in this website, one may encounter many different bottom types, from rocky pinnacles around Block Island to white sands off Cape May to mud and oyster beds in any estuary. This variation is far greater and more interesting than is found in the tropics. Here is some explanation of what bottom compositions are found where and why:

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