New Jersey Scuba Diving

barges - Fire Island Artificial Reef

DS-24 is full of holes
Type:
artificial reef, barges
Depth:
62 - 73 ft
Name Description Sunk GPS
110 ft steel Thursday
Sept 9, 1999		 40°35.973'
-73°13.242'
Air Force
Scow		 110 ft steel Sunday
Oct 14, 2018		 40°35.914'
-73°11.986'
Dump Scow
DS-24		 100 ft steel Sunday
Oct 14, 2018 		40°35.838'
-73°12.015'
Piano Scow 30 ft steel Sunday
Oct 14, 2018 		40°35.872'
-73°12.022'
"Ocean Prince"
Drydock #4		 200 ft steel
drydock		 Saturday
Nov 29, 1986		 40°35.704'
-73°11.968'
The Air Force scow is lowered into the water.
It has to be expensive to sink barges this way.
This 110 ft barge was sunk the old-fashioned way back in 1999.
The "Piano Scow" is very small and very full of holes
"Ocean Prince"

The "Ocean Prince" drydock (above) was sunk in 1986 and is well-attested. New York has photos of a clearly different drydock, which they place here, but I believe is actually at Shinnecock, and I have placed it there.

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Smooth Dogfish

Smooth Dogfish

Smooth Dogfish
Mustelus canis

Size:
to 4ft (male)
to 5 ft (female)

Habitat:
shallow coastal waters, in depths 30 ft and below.

Notes:

Smooth Dogfish are tannish-gray, slate-gray, or brown above. The lower sides and belly are white, grayish-white, or yellow. A sooty spot is often found near the tip of the upper lobe of the caudal fin. The species is distributed from New Brunswick, Canada, to Uruguay, and inhabits the bottoms of estuaries and coastal waters out to a depth of about 650 feet. During the spring and summer, most of the sharks are found in waters less than 60 feet deep.

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