New York Dive Sites
Dive Sites - New York
- 3/4 Tug
- 59-Pounder
- Acara
- Ajace
- Amsterdam
- Andrea Doria
- Arnoff
- Asfalto
- Atlantic
- Atlantic Beach Reef ...
- Ayuruoca
- BA Wreck
- Bald Eagle
- Barataria
- Bayville barge
- Beach Jetties
- Black Point
- Black Warrior
- Bronx Queen
- Bug Light
- Burnside
- Celtic / Cape Race
- Charles Dunlap
- Choapa
- Coastwise
- Coimbra
- Condor
- Continent
- Cornelia Soule
- Defender
- Dodger
- Dragger
- Drumelzier
- drydock barge
- E. Rockaway Inlet / 8th St
- Ed's Schooner
- Edwin Duke
- Essex
- Eureka
- Fire Island Inlet
- Fire Island Reef ...
- Fort Victoria
- Gate City
- Glen Island
- Gluckauf
- Goulandris
- Grecian
- Gwendoline Steers
- Happy Days
- Harvey's Schooner
- Hempstead Reef ...
- HMS Culloden
- HMS Hussar
- Horton's Point
- Howard
- Hudson/East Rivers
- Huntington Reef
- Hylton Castle
- Iberia
- Immaculata
- Inshore Schooner
- Irma C
- John A. Downs
- John C. Fitzpatrick
- Jones Inlet / Wreck
- Kenosha
- Kismet Reef ...
- Larchmont
- Lexington
- Lido (Coal Wreck)
- Lightburne
- Linda
- Lizzie D
- Macedonia
- Maine
- Malden
- Margaret
- Matinecock Reef ...
- Mattituck Inlet
- Mattituck Reef ...
- McAllister Reef ...
- Mistletoe
- Montauk Inlet
- Moriches Inlet
- Moriches Reef ...
- Mount Sinai Harbor
- Mud Hole
- Myronus
- NY Artificial Reefs ...
- Olinda
- Oregon
- Panther
- Pinta
- Pipe Barge
- Poling Brothers #2
- Ponquogue Bridge
- Port Jefferson Inlet
- Port Jefferson Reef ...
- Princess Anne
- R.C. Mohawk
- Reggie
- Relief Lightship
- Rickseckers
- Robert A Snow
- Rockaway Inlet
- Rockaway Reef ...
- Roda
- Ruth Shaw
- Sandy Hook Pilot
- Seawolf
- Shinnecock Inlet
- Shinnecock Reef ...
- Shoreham
- Sixteen Fathom Reef
- Smithtown Reef ...
- Snug Harbor
- Steel Wreck
- Tennyson
- Texas Tower
- Thames
- Thelma Phoebe
- Three Sisters
- Train Wheel Wreck
- Twelve-Mile Reef ...
- U-853
- U-869
- USS Bass
- USS G-1 SS-19
- USS G-2 SS-27
- USS L-8 SS-48
- USS Ohio
- USS San Diego
- USS Tarantula
- USS Turner
- Valerie E
- Volund
- Wolcott
- Yankee (G&D)
- Yankee (Old)
- Yellowbar Reef ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, USA
- Built:
- 1907, Bethlehem Quincy, Quincy MA USA
- Specs:
- ( 373 x 52 ft ) 5054 gross tons, 42 crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday September 19, 1921
collision with SS Jonancy - no casualties - Depth:
- 40 ft
More: Malden ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, England
- Built:
- 1898, England
- Specs:
- ( 380 x 47 ft ) 4193 gross tons
- Sunk:
- March 1, 1902; ran aground in storm - no casualties
- Depth:
- 25 ft
The Acara lies 1,500 to 1,800 ft offshore, in 25 ft of water. She is quite broken up, with wreckage spread over a wide area. Still, there are one or two sections with 10 feet or so of relief. Brass fittings and other artifacts are still being found.
More: Acara ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, tugboat ?
- Depth:
- 40 ft
This unknown vessel is listed on the charts as "Margaret" and is speculated to be a tugboat. She may be the remains of the Margaret Olsen, a small steam-driven harbor boat, which collided with the tugboat Joseph A. Ginder on May 4, 1929. Visibility is usually pretty poor, 15 ft or less, and current can be a problem, due to the proximity to Deb's Inlet.
More: Margaret ...
Rockaway Artificial Reef
1.6 nautical miles south of Rockaway Beach, 1.00 sq miles
Depth: 32 - 40 ft
More: Rockaway Artificial Reef ...
- Type:
- shipwreck, tugboat, USA
- Built:
- 1907, Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia PA USA
- Specs:
- ( 77 x 21 ft ) 122 gross tons, 13 crew
- Sunk:
- Thursday October 19, 1922
unknown, related to smuggling during Prohibition - no survivors - Depth:
- 80 ft
More: Lizzie D ...
East Rockaway Inlet
The dive site is between 8th and 9th Streets.
Atlantic Beach bridge at right, inlet and ocean to the left (west)
In Queens borough, New York City!
East Rockaway Inlet is also known as Deb's Inlet, while New Yorkers optimistically, or perhaps ironically, call the Beach 8th Street dive site Almost Paradise. (Actually the name of a long-defunct dive shop there.) It is also referred to as Beach 9th Street. If that's not enough names for the same place, the waterway is officially called Reynold's Channel. So I suppose you could make six different entries in your logbook.
Beach 8th Street is the only part of the inlet that is accessible to divers, the rest is either private property or state park land where diving is prohibited. You can zoom, pan, and maximize the map above. The inlet is off to the left, marshland to the right, and Kennedy Airport above.
More: East Rockaway Inlet / Beach 8th Street ...
