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barges - Fire Island Artificial Reef

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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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Gear Moving & Storage

storage box

The standard means of moving and storing dive gear is the dive bag. All of the major manufacturers make dive gear bags. These are often quite fancy, with embroidered logos, pockets inside and out, "ergonomic" handles, and even wheels. Most of these bags are very nice but really too small to hold a cold-water dive kit, and very heavy to carry around when full. These bags are also expensive, a bother to clean, and a lot less waterproof than they claim. Here's is a convenient alternative that is much cheaper:

Go to K-Mart Home Depot and spend $5 on a Rubbermaid tote box, about the size of a milk crate. This will not be big enough to hold all items - you'll have to pack your fins and BC separately - but it will hold everything else, is small enough to fit almost anywhere, and also avoids making a single excessively heavy load. The tote also will not lose small items like a milk crate will. I eventually drilled drain holes in the bottom. I now use my fancy dive bag only to carry my drysuit and its accessories. This type of tote box is the preferred container on every area dive boat I have been on.

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