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Fells Point

Fells Point Reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat
Built:
1956, Equitable Equipment Company, Madisonville, LA USA
Specs:
( 110 ft )
Sunk:
Monday June 2, 2008 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:
38°40.540' -74°43.957'

Built in 1956, by the Equitable Equipment Company Incorporated of Madisonville, Louisiana ( hull #933 ) as the Fells Point for the Curtis Bay Towing Company of Baltimore, Maryland. On the day it was launched in 1954, the 110-foot ship-docking tug was the highest horsepower commercial ship docking tug in the world, with a turbocharged 16-251 American Locomotive Company diesel engine. Sister to Kings Point.

In 1958, the Curtis Bay Towing Company was acquired by the Moran Towing Company of New York, New York. However, the Curtis Bay Towing Company operated as an affiliate of the Moran Towing Company. In 1988, the Curtis Bay Towing Company was absorbed into the Moran Towing Corporation. In 2005, the tug went out of documentation, and in 2008 the tug was scuttled. She was a single screw tug, rated at 2,100 horsepower.

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Delaware Artificial Reef #11
Fells Point leads the string, Cittie Point in the middle, and William C Snow brings up the rear
... and then there were two ...
... and then there were none ...

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Photography - Accidents & Equipment Insurance

Having acquired all your nice expensive equipment, you may want to insure it against damage and flooding. Alright, perhaps not a cheap film camera, but a high-end housed 35mm, digital, or video camera certainly deserves the protection. On the other hand, with proper care and maintenance, and attention to detail when sealing it up, a modern camera housing is extremely unlikely to leak.

Here's something I learned the hard way:

Batteries + saltwater = one really nasty corrosive mess. Regular old alkalines are not nearly as destructive when you get them wet. What does this mean? Use NiMH batteries in the camera inside the housing, but use alkalines inside your strobes, so that if the battery compartment does flood, you can just rinse it out with fresh water and maybe lemon juice. The result of a wet NiMH battery will eat away the metal contacts of the battery compartment so fast that by the time you can do anything about it, it's too late. Alkaline batteries have plenty of oomph to drive a strobe, although not a camera. If your camera housing floods, the battery type won't really matter, since the saltwater will destroy the camera all by itself.

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