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Artificial Reef Sites (25/26)

Artificial Reefs

The pink and white areas are shipping lanes. 'Natural' shipwrecks are depicted with a wreck symbol.

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Wards Island

Type:: artificial reef, ferry, USA
Built:: 1929 - Electric Boat Company, Groton CT USA
Specs:: ( 101 x 32 ft )
Sunk:: Friday August 10, 2018 - Hempstead Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:: 40°30.994' -73°32.955'

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Wedding barge

Type:: artificial reef, barge
Specs:: ( 109 x 34 ft )
Sponsor:: Friends of Craig and Pat Thoman
Dedication:: Craig and Pat Thoman
Sunk:: Tuesday January 15 2002 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°07.370' -73°56.765'

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Weeks barge

Type:: artificial reef, barge
Specs:: ( 106 x 36 ft )
Sponsor:: Penn Reels
Sunk:: Wednesday June 21, 1995 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°37.628' -74°01.643'
Depth:: 80 ft

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William C Snow

Delaware Artificial Reef #11 — *Fells Point* leads the string, *Cittie Point* in the middle, and *William C Snow* brings up the rear

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Specs:: ( 55 ft )
Sunk:: Monday June 2, 2008 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°40.540' -74°43.957'

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Winthrop

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:: 1948, Bath Iron Works, Maine, USA
Specs:: ( 117 x 24 ft ) 195 gross tons
Sponsor:: Eirek's Dock, Fish America Foundation
Sunk:: Wednesday July 12, 1989 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°50.825' -74°43.312'
Depth:: 60 ft

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Wyoming

Type:: artificial reef, clam dredge, USA
Specs:: ( 100 x 18 ft )
Sponsor:: Wyoming Boat Corp, Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association
Sunk:: Saturday Dec 7, 1991 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°52.976' -74°40.620'

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YC-1479

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Type:: artificial reef, barge
Built:: 1953, New Orleans LA, as BCL-1103
Specs:: ( 110 x 34 ft ) 144 tons
Sunk:: Friday Oct 20, 2000 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°40.540' -74°43.957'

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YC-725

Type:: artificial reef, barge, US Navy
Built:: 1941, Dravo Corp, Wilmington DE USA
Specs:: ( 110 x 35 ft ) 400 tons dead weight
Sunk:: Wednesday March 10, 2010 - Delaware #10 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°36.608' -74°56.494'

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YOG-93

Type:: artificial reef, tanker, US Navy
Built:: 1945, RTC Shipbuilding, Camden NJ USA
Specs:: ( 174 x 33 ft ) 1390 tons
Sunk:: Monday June 25, 2007 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°40.590' -74°43.957'

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YON-80

Type:: artificial reef, barge, US Navy
Built:: 1942
Specs:: ( 174 x 40 ft ) 200 tons light
Sunk:: Tuesday June 18, 2002 - Delaware #10 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°36.424' -74°56.498'

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August 12, 2022

Hope for Dutch Springs

August 12, 2022

Dutch Springs has new owners and a new name. The aqua park is gone, but here’s when divers might return to popular quarry

By Anthony Salamone
The Morning Call
Lehigh Valley News
Jul 27, 2022

Divers by a sunken boat called the Silver Comet at Dutch Springs, a 50-acre water park and scuba diving site since 1980 that features a 100-foot-deep water filled quarry, north of Bethlehem, Nov. 23, 2021. The Dutch Springs quarry has been acquired by a pair of owners, who plan to resume scuba diving at the Northampton County site next year with a new name: Lake Hydra.
(Michael Turek/The New York Times)

Nearly a year after news leaked about its potential sale for warehousing, the Dutch Springs quarry has new owners and a new name.

Former Northampton County Council member Kenneth Kraft and Jim Folk have bought the water-filled quarry from Trammell Crow Co., which acquired most of the land off Hanoverville Road in Northampton County to develop two warehouses. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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