New Jersey Scuba Diving

barges - Fire Island Artificial Reef

The "Ocean Prince" drydock (above) was sunk in 1986 and is well-attested. New York has photos of a clearly different drydock which they place here, but I believe is actually at Shinnecock, and I have placed it there.

Type:
artificial reef, barges
Depth:
62 - 73 ft
Name Description Sunk GPS
110 ft steel Thursday
Sept 9, 1999		 40°35.973'
-73°13.242'
Air Force
Scow		 110 ft steel Sunday
Oct 14, 2018		 40°35.914'
-73°11.986'
Dump Scow
DS-24		 100 ft steel Sunday
Oct 14, 2018		 40°35.838'
-73°12.015'
Irvington 60 ft steel 2024 40°35.949'
-73°12.308'
Piano Scow 30 ft steel Sunday
Oct 14, 2018 		40°35.872'
-73°12.022'
"Ocean Prince"
Drydock #4		 200 ft steel
drydock		 Saturday
Nov 29, 1986		 40°35.704'
-73°11.968'
DS-24 is full of holes
The Air Force scow is lowered into the water.
It has to be expensive to sink barges this way.
The "Piano Scow" is very small and very full of holes

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Dive Sites References

There is actually a wealth of books on the subject of diving the New Jersey / New York area. A great deal more information, including loran numbers and/or directions, much more detailed histories and descriptions, and historical photos, can be found in these references, and I highly recommend all of them. You can find these at your local dive shop, or order all of them directly from the links on this page.

Many out-of-print titles are still available from used book dealers and can be found by searching online.

Update 2020:

Unfortunately, most of these are out of print now, but you can search out used copies.

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