Spaghetti Pile

spaghetti pile
Type:
artificial reef, steel communications cable
Sunk:
2000 - 2005 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°14.150' -74°13.100'
GPS:
39°14.038' -74°13.150'

Most of the material is heavy 3" diameter armored trans-Atlantic telephone cable; some is lighter 3/4 " cable. Each site contains over 100 miles. The heavy cable eventually sinks into the bottom but makes excellent fish habitat until it does. Such cable has also been used with great success in Maryland but has been effectively outlawed in New Jersey by Clean Ocean Action.

Fish swarm over tangles of heavy cable
Fish swarm over tangles of heavy cable
Fish swarm over tangles of heavy cable
A blackfish shelters in a knot of cable
A blackfish shelters in a knot of cable
Diver swims over recently-deposited thin cable
A diver swims over recently-deposited thin cable, 5/31/05

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These books are indispensable for identifying the plants and animals found along the North Atlantic seashore. These should be available at any major bookstore.

A good project for rainy days and snowed-in weekends is to go through the plates ( illustrations ) in your field guides and highlight all the species that are found in your area. This will make the guides far more useful, and also give you a chance to become more familiar with the plants and animals you may encounter. Beats watching television.

Field Guides

Atlantic Coast Fishes

Peterson's Field Guides - Atlantic Coast Fishes
Robins / Ray / Douglass
Houghton Mifflin, 1986
354 pages, illustrated, color

essential for NJ divers