- Type:
- artificial reef, tugboat, USA
- Built:
- 1930s, Syracuse NY USA
- Specs:
- ( 74 ft )
- Sunk:
- Thursday May 31, 2018 - Shinnecock Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°48.064' -72°28.651'
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Canal Boats
These vessels all gave long service on New York State's extensive inland canal system. I expect to be adding to this list, as there are many more, and they are very old. At most, one or two can and should be preserved, but for the rest, reefing is a better fate than being cut up into scrap and melted-down in China.
- Type:
- artificial reef, tugboat
- Built:
- late 1920s?
- Specs:
- ( 40 ft )
- Sunk:
- Thursday May 31, 2018 - Shinnecock Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°48.071' -72°28.655'
More: Canal Tender 6 ...
- 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'
More: Canal Tenders 7 & 8 ...
- 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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From way back when in 1996 ...
by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, author of Diving Physiology in Plain English
Myth 1 - The Dive Reflex Protects You
In the dive reflex, heart rate and limb blood flow decrease. Careful science ( that means we didn't accidentally step on the thermisters ) shows time and again that the dive reflex does not reduce the need for oxygen underwater as it does in marine mammals. Field studies ( where you're allowed to step on the thermisters ) indicate that the dive reflex does not extend breath-holding time. Occasional cases of human survival after very cold water near-drowning are not due to the dive reflex. Cold is the likely mechanism behind the reduced metabolism that permits survival.
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