New Jersey Scuba Diving

Type:

artificial reef, tugboat

Built:

late 1920s?

Specs:

( 40 ft )

Sunk:

Thursday July 19, 2018 - Smithtown Artificial Reef

Depth:

GPS:

#7: 40°55.977' -73°11.110'
#8: 40°55.958' -73°11.098'

Canal Tenders are miniature tugboats, built for tight spaces and shallow drafts - exactly what you would need for canal service. These boats and their sisters operated on the New York canal system for many decades, doing whatever needed doing.

A lot of people were up in arms over the reefing of these and other canal vessels. But what do you want - the whole world filled with worn-out tugboats? Reefing is better than scrapping - these boats will go on to a long productive life of a new sort. The alternative is melting them down into license plates and razor blades.

These two should be called Theodore and Hank: