Frieda Marie ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Frieda Marie

Type:: artificial reef, trawler
Built:: 1976, Bayou La Batre AL as Miss Quality
Specs:: ( 85 ft ) 159 gross tons
Sunk:: Saturday, Jan 16, 2010 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°40.540' -74°43.957'
Depth:

The Frieda Marie was a shrimper that ran aground near Assateague Island in August 2009 and apparently was a total loss. In the photo above, she is being de-fueled and re-floated.

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Delaware #11 Artificial Reef

Depth: 70-90 ft

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Atlantic Mist PCE-880

Type:: artificial reef, purse seiner, formerly Navy patrol craft
Built:: 1943, Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland OR USA
Specs:: ( 185 x 33 ft ) 850 tons
Sunk:: Saturday, Jan 16, 2010 - DelJerseyLand Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°31.063' -74°30.271'
Depth:: 100 ft

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Most copepods are harmless plankters or bottom dwellers. In fact, copepods are the most numerous of all crustaceans in terms of both species and population. However, since they generally range in size from 1/16" to 1/2 ", they are not of much interest to divers.

The Ribbon Louse ( Lernaeenicus spp. far right, 1 inch to 1 foot ) is a fish parasite. I have observed these bizarre creatures only in the aquarium. The head ( at lower left ) is buried in the body of the host, while the worm-like body hangs outside. Only the twin tails betray its true and almost unrecognizable nature - this is a copepod crustacean. And this is not even the extreme of crustacean evolution - some parasitic barnacles live completely inside their host, actually melding with the host's flesh until the two are inseparable, like some kind of science fiction nightmare.

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