New Jersey Scuba Diving

Brooklyn DPC-15

Brooklyn reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat
Built:
1943, Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA USA as DPC-15, later Brooklyn
Specs:
( 86 x 24 ft ) 146 GT, 9 crew
Sponsor:
Friends of the Norma K
Sunk:
Tuesday October 30, 2001 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°03.390' -73°59.550'
Brooklyn reef
Brooklyn reef side-scan
Side-scan sonar image of the tug on the bottom. Note the gouge in the sand where the ship landed and slid, still evident almost a year later. The black sonar shadow matches the profile of the wreck as seen in the photo above.
Brooklyn reef
The old Brooklyn has some interesting events in her past. Here she is, loaded with contraband firearms to be 'reefed' in Long Island Sound by order of Mayor Fiorello Laguardia.
Brooklyn reef
And here again on another occasion. Laguardia was on a drive to clean up New York. Note the photographer, although I don't see the mayor himself.
Brooklyn reef
I've never seen a tugboat captain dressed so spiffy. Times have changed.

Reef site named in memorial of the Joan La Rie III.

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Lionfish

Lionfish

Pterois volitans

Size: to 17", usually smaller

Habitat: turning up all along the East Coast

Notes: venomous spines

This Indo-Pacific scorpionfish has been sighted in the wild in Florida and the Caribbean since the 1990s. In 2000 it began appearing off North Carolina. Two juveniles were found off Long Island in 2002, and in 2003 a two-inch yearling was collected in the Shark River. Of course, this popular pet is sighted daily in public and private aquariums all over the world.

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