New Jersey Scuba Diving

Colleen

Colleen reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat
Built:
1952, American Marine, New Orleans LA, USA
Specs:
( 92 x 25 ft ) 150 tons
Sponsor:
GPPCBA, Budweiser, GDF
Sunk:
Saturday August 3, 1996 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°02.794' -73°59.350'
Depth:
80 ft
Hess

The Colleen was a canal tugboat that towed barges on the Erie Canal between New York City and the Great Lakes. She also helped dock ships in port.

The Colleen is a near twin to the Spartan. At about 60 ft depth, large holes in the roof make it easy to drop down several decks inside the wreck and still have daylight in sight above. Look for lobsters dug in under the edges of the hull, along with a great many Sea Bass. The rudder is cranked 90 degrees to one side, leaving plenty of room to swim through the gap where the propeller should be. At least one APC lies close by off her stern, upside-down, and a reef ball lies on the aft deck.

Built in 1952, by Alexander Shipyard of New Orleans, Louisiana (hull #542) as the Rhea I. Bouchard for the Bouchard Transportation Company of Melville, New York. In 1952 the tug was acquired by the Moran Towing Company of New York, New York, and renamed Polly Moran. In 1958 she was acquired by Ira S. Bushey and Sons of Brooklyn, New York, and renamed Cardinal.

In 1972, the tug was acquired by the Kehoe Transportation Company of New York, New York and renamed Kehoe. However, the Kehoe Transportation Company later renamed the tug Colleen Kehoe. She was later acquired by the Mowbray Towing Corporation of New York, New York, and renamed Colleen. She was a single screw tug, rated at 900 horsepower.

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Colleen reef
Something unusual - the Colleen as she appears on an old-fashioned depth-finder trace, just minutes after sinking, with streams of bubbles rising from the wreck.
Colleen reef
A Reef Ball on the stern of the Colleen.
Colleen reef
Part of the wheelhouse.
Colleen reef
Inside the wheelhouse.

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Snorkel

no snorkel

Here is an item that is useful in the tropics, but much less so around here. This is because the water here is not nearly as crystal clear as in the tropics, and the depths are often greater. Therefore it is unlikely you will be able to see anything interesting below from the surface.

On a boat dive, a snorkel is totally useless - leave it home. Chances are, the captain and crew will tell you to take it off anyway. The same is generally true for inlet diving where the entry is steep. A snorkel is just one extra thing to get tangled up, and you will probably have enough of that already. A snorkel might be useful in a surface swim from the beach out to a close-in dive site, if it is a good one with purge valve or a dry valve to keep the water out entirely. Even then, you are better off doing a backstroke out to the site, with your head out of the water so you can navigate by landmarks, or an underwater swim if the currents are favorable.

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