New Jersey Scuba Diving

Lucisaura

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:: 1966, Master Marine, Bayou La Bâtre AL USA
Specs:: ( 79 ft ) 129 gross tons
Sunk:: Sunday Sept 20, 1998 - Hempstead Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:: 40°31.106' -73°33.439'

built as Breton Isle, 7051876

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Hempstead Artificial Reef

Hempstead Artificial Reef

2 dredge barges
barge
DB-1
drydock
Jane
Lucisaura
Navy barge
Wards Island

3.3 nautical miles south of Jones Beach State Park, 1.33 sq miles
Depth: 50-70 ft

Depth: 50 - 72 ft

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Northern Stargazer

Stargazer

Astroscopus guttatus

Size
to 22" and 20 lbs.

Description:
Don't expect to see these fishes very often - they live buried in the sand, with just their eyes protruding. The eyes are directly atop the flat head, and the mouth is almost vertical. Of course, they are ambush predators. If you flush one from its hiding place, it will clumsily swim a short distance, and then rebury itself in just seconds. Stargazers are capable of producing weak electric currents from organs located behind the eyes. I doubt that it is enough to be dangerous to a diver, although it might be startling! Midshipmen are similar but smaller, with a continuous dorsal fin and luminescent spots instead of electrical organs.

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