New Jersey Scuba Diving

Connie F

Type:: artificial reef, trawler
Built:: 1960, Thomaston ME USA
Specs:: ( 62x17 ft ) 57 gross tons
Sunk:: Jan 24, 2001 - Yellowbar Artificial Reef
Depth:: 34 ft
GPS:: 40°38.001 -73°14.479

wood hull

1960-1969

"This is a photo my father sent back to his wife and children back in Portugal shortly after arriving in the U.S. He is aboard the Connie F, a wooden boat owned by his brother Joseph, accompanied by the husband of his youngest sister, Gloria. The owner of the boat sponsored all but one of his siblings into the country and all men worked on the Connie F for different periods of time even when none of them had been fishermen in Portugal. Location: Pier 3."

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900 yards east of the Robert Moses Fixed Bridge, 0.01 sq miles
Depth: 25 - 40 ft

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Northern Stargazer

Stargazer

Astroscopus guttatus

Size
to 22" and 20 lbs.

Description:
Don't expect to see these fishes very often - they live buried in the sand, with just their eyes protruding. The eyes are directly atop the flat head, and the mouth is almost vertical. Of course, they are ambush predators. If you flush one from its hiding place, it will clumsily swim a short distance, and then rebury itself in just seconds. Stargazers are capable of producing weak electric currents from organs located behind the eyes. I doubt that it is enough to be dangerous to a diver, although it might be startling! Midshipmen are similar but smaller, with a continuous dorsal fin and luminescent spots instead of electrical organs.

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