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Long Island Sound Dive Sites Chart

Long Island Sound - West Chart

  1. Amsterdam
  2. Atlantic
  3. Barataria
  4. USS Bass
  5. Bayville barge
  6. Black Point
  7. Celtic/Cape Race
  8. Condor
  9. HMS Culloden
  10. Defender
  11. John A. Downs
  12. Essex
  13. Gwendoline Steers
  14. USS G-1
  15. USS G-2
  16. Grecian
  17. Horton's Point / Commodore
  18. Huntington Artificial Reef
  19. HMS Hussar
  20. USS L-8
  21. Larchmont
  22. Lexington
  23. Lightburne
  24. Malden
  25. Matinecock Artificial Reef
  26. Mattituck Inlet
  27. Mattituck Artificial Reef
  28. Montauk Inlet
  29. Mount Sinai Harbor
  30. Myronus
  31. USS Ohio
  32. Olinda
  33. Pinnacle
  34. Poling Bros #2
  35. Port Jefferson Artificial Reef
  36. Port Jefferson Inlet
  37. Puszta
  38. Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
  39. Smithtown Artificial Reef
  40. Snug Harbor
  41. Thames
  42. Thelma Phoebe
  43. U-853
  44. Volund
  45. Delaware River Water Gap
  46. Block Island Wind Farm

Long Island Sound - East Chart

  1. Amsterdam
  2. Atlantic
  3. Barataria
  4. USS Bass
  5. Bayville barge
  6. Black Point
  7. Celtic/Cape Race
  8. Condor
  9. HMS Culloden
  10. Defender
  11. John A. Downs
  12. Essex
  13. Gwendoline Steers
  14. USS G-1
  15. USS G-2
  16. Grecian
  17. Horton's Point / Commodore
  18. Huntington Artificial Reef
  19. USS L-8
  20. Larchmont
  21. Lexington
  22. Lightburne
  23. Malden
  24. Matinecock Artificial Reef
  25. Mattituck Inlet
  26. Mattituck Artificial Reef
  27. Montauk Inlet
  28. Mount Sinai Harbor
  29. Myronus
  30. USS Ohio
  31. Olinda
  32. Pinnacle
  33. Poling Bros #2
  34. Port Jefferson Artificial Reef
  35. Port Jefferson Inlet
  36. Puszta
  37. Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
  38. Smithtown Artificial Reef
  39. Snug Harbor
  40. Thames
  41. Thelma Phoebe
  42. U-853
  43. Volund
  44. Delaware River Water Gap
  45. Block Island Wind Farm

Long Island Sound averages 60 ft in depth, with the greatest depth of over 300 ft at the eastern end. Tidal effects are strongest at the narrow western end, where all the inrushing water flow piles up and makes tidal variations of up to 7 ft. Strong tidal currents are also prevalent, and visibility tends to be poorer than the open ocean, especially at depth.

Long Island Sound Dive Sites

Port Jefferson Artificial Reef

Port Jefferson Artificial Reef

  1. Lund's barge

1.79 nautical miles northeast of Port Jefferson Inlet, 0.08 sq miles
Depth: 88 to 94 feet

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Olinda

Shipwreck Olinda
Type:
shipwreck, steamer, Portugal
Built:
1887, England
Specs:
( 250 x 36 ft ) 1479 gross tons
Sunk:
Tuesday June 11, 1895
ran aground on Fisher's Island - no casualties
Depth:
20 ft

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Horton's Point / Commodore

Horton's Point

Type:
shipwreck, steamer, USA
Built:
1848, Jeremiah Simonson, Greenpoint NY USA
Specs:
( 275 x 32 ft ) 984 gross tons
Sunk:
Saturday December 27, 1866
beached to prevent foundering in a storm; old age & decay - no casualties

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Defender

Submarine Defender as rebuilt with sharply raked bow, and her topsides changed, ready for launch at Lake's Bridgeport base. Above her twin propellers is the shutter of a stern torpedo tube. Lake's characteristic pair of amidships planes have been folded up (they are forward and abaft the big conning tower).
Type:
shipwreck, submarine, private
Built:
1906, Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Newport News, VA USA,
as Simon Lake XV
Specs:
( 92 x 13 ft ) 200 tons
Sunk:
1946, scuttled

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Celtic / Cape Race

Shipwreck Celtic
Type:
Celtic - shipwreck, canal tugboat, USA
Cape Race - shipwreck, barge, Oyster Bay NY USA
Built:
Celtic - 1958, Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay NY USA as Russell 10
Specs:
Celtic - ( 85 ft ) 6 crew
Cape Race - ( 150 ft )
Sunk:
Saturday November 17, 1984
barge foundered, pulling tug down with it - no survivors
Depth:
60 ft

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September 30, 2022

A Nice Upgrade

September 30, 2022

I did some php programming in my custom WordPress theme, and gave it a new ability. Now on each page I can embed related pages, which previously only appeared as links in the sidebar ( and still do. ) While it is possible to embed anywhere, the sensible place is at the end, after all the content. Embedding a page in the middle of another page would probably be confusing. Actually, when a page is embedded, only the beginning of it is displayed, with a link to the whole thing. Then I got an even better idea, and added the page's 'parent' to the list. I also made some formatting changes so that each embedded page is clearly a separate entity.

What is really cool about this for this website is that now every dive site's page now includes the relevant charts. This is something I always had in the back of my mind, but I never thought of an easy way to do it across hundreds of pages, until now. Once the code was finished, it took just a single change in the WordPress setup to make it happen.

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