New Jersey Scuba Diving

drydock

Drydock reef
Type:
artificial reef, drydock barge
Specs:
( 100 ft )
Sunk:
February 1979 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
Sponsor:
Artificial Reef Committee
Depth:
75 ft
GPS:
40°07.759' -73°56.384'

A large rectangular wooden structure, now deteriorated. Many large fallen timbers ought to provide homes for lobsters, but they are disappointingly few and small, probably because this site is visited so often. The interior is full of stones and pipes. In 2006 it was pulverized under a large load of concrete.

Drydock reef
Drydock reef
Side-scan sonar image, 1998. The side walls have long-since collapsed.

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Sea Birds - Visitors

pelican

These are birds that are occasional to regular visitors to our region but do not live here year-round. Pelicans are summer visitors, Gannets are winter visitors. Others may appear any time, usually after being blown inshore by a storm. Because they can be carried thousands of miles off-course in storms, many other types of sea birds, from Europe, Africa, South America, the Arctic, and even Asia may make guest appearances as well.

Brown Pelicans Pelecanus occidentalis are southern birds that are occasionally found as far north as Cape May, rarely up to Nova Scotia. However, with the warmer temperatures of late, they seem to be expanding their normal range northward.

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