New Jersey Scuba Diving

Type:

artificial reef, fire boat

Built:

1958, Equitable Equipment Company, New Orleans LA USA

Specs:

( 52 ft, 34 tons )

Sponsor:

FDNY, Ann E Clark Foundation

Sunk:

Friday August 8, 2008 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef

GPS:

40°07.829' -73°56.379'

The Smoke II was built in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1958. It was 52 feet in length, steel, pumped 2,000 gallons per minute, and was equipped with two monitors (water nozzles). The fireboat was commissioned to be used as the chief’s tender for all marine operations and served as a command post. Later it was used as a backup for Marine Unit 6, the Kevin Kane. After September 11, 2001, the Smoke II pumped water to the World Trade Center site following the attacks. The boat also transported Fire Capt. Al Fuentes from the site to a trauma center in New Jersey after he was rescued from the rubble.