Mayflower ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Mayflower

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:: 1927, F.G. Post, Mystic, CT USA ???
Specs:: ( 50 ft )
Sunk:: Wednesday October 28, 1992 - Shinnecock Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:: 40°47.965' -72°28.049'

I found this old photo of a Mayflower at Mystic Seaport. It could be the same boat, although there are detail differences. This and the history note above are pure conjecture.

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( 40.80139, -72.47293 )

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This worm-like creature is actually a bivalve mollusk with a greatly reduced shell, which it uses to bore tunnels into wood. They typically spend their entire lives in a tunnel in a single piece of wood. In addition to feeding off the wood, they can also filter feed like ordinary bivalves.

In the age of wooden ships, teredos and other wood-borers were a tremendous problem. In our area, more wood-boring is done by crustaceans than Teredos.

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