Spring Lake Sailor

Shipwreck Spring Lake Sailor
Side-scan sonar image
Type:
shipwreck, schooner barge
Depth:
75 ft

A large sailing ship, just north of the Sea Girt Reef in 73 feet. Very low-lying. Wreckage consists of three sets of wood walls with some decking. Deep holes for lobsters. Very hard to find and hook. A nice spot for six lobster divers or a small cadre of artifact hunters. Probably over 100 years old. Some brass odds and ends over the years have been found, with some bottles and china, but I suspect she was largely stripped and sank.

-- Capt Steve Nagiewicz

aka: NW Sailor, AWOIS 7778

AWOIS 7778

LAT: 40.147547 / LON: -73.930514 / HIGH

Wreck - Submerged, dangerous to surface navigation

58 Feet and tenths

333SS/89 - OPR-C147-HE-89;

CONTACT NO. 16;

50M SIDE SCAN SONAR COVERAGE OVER CONTACT PROVIDED BY WHITING IN H10290/88;

DIVER INVESTIGATION LOCATED A BADLY DETERIORATED WOODEN WRECK WHICH WAS SUNK INTO A FLAT SANDY BOTTOM;

HIGHEST OBJECT WAS A LARGE CORAL-COVERED ROCK OR PIECE OF WRECKAGE;

DIVERS UNABLE TO DETERMINE THE EXACT NATURE OF THIS CORAL-COVERED OBJECT;

POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION OF WRECKAGE COULD NOT BE MADE;

LAT 40-08-51.166N, LONG 73-55-49.845W;

LORAN C RATES: 9960-W 15503.1, 9960-X 26907.3, 9960-Y 43517.6, 9960-Z 59778.2;

EVALUATOR RECOMMENDED CHARTED A DANGEROUS WRECK COVERED 58 FT. MLLW AT SURVEY POSITION.

(ENTERED MSM 5/90)


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Hydroids

Masses of hydroids adorn many of the offshore wrecks, mixed in with anemones, sponges, mussels, coral, and algae. Hydroids are the most primitive Cnidarians, closely related to Hydromedusae, and display the most even split between the sessile polyp stages and free-swimming medusa stages, which are quite small and common.

The common Pink-Hearted Hydroid Tubularia spp generally grows in rounded tufts up to 6" across. Siphonophores are free-living hydroids that are often highly venomous, although most attached forms are harmless to humans.