Delaware Bay
I doubt this is a good place to dive. Even without the river pollution, the bottom is muddy and the water is full of silt. If anyone knows anything different, let me know.
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Cape May Dive Sites (4/9)
Cape May Chart
- Absecon Inlet
- USS Akron
- Alex Gibson
- Alexander
- Almirante
- American
- Astra
- Atlantus
- Azua
- Dorothy B Barrett
- Brigantine Beach Wreck
- USS Blenny
- boiler wreck
- Brian C
- Brigantine Inlet
- Brigantine Buoy Wreck
- Charles Morand
- Cape May Inlet
- Cassandra
- Cayru
- Champion
- USS Cherokee
- China Wreck
- City of Athens
- City of Georgetown
- Clermont
- Corson’s Inlet
- William B Diggs
- dredge
- Admiral DuPont
- Elizabeth Warren
- Evening Star
- car float
- Florida
- Galimore's Cayru
- Gory Wreck
- Great Egg Inlet
- Gypsum Prince
- Hereford Inlet
- Hornet
- Hvoslef
- India Arrow
- Indian River Inlet
- USS Jacob Jones
- John Marvin
- China Junk Wreck
- Kennebec
- King Cobra
- Lemuel Burrows
- Lake Frampton
- Lady Mary
- Linda Snow II
- Marine Electric
- Miraflores
- Misty Blue
- Mohawk
- Montgomery
- USS Moonstone
- EF Moran
- Northern Pacific
- Nuphar
- Oklahoma
- Patrice McAllister
- Pet Wreck
- Poseidon
- Ranald
- RJ Walker
- Southern Lillian
- USS S-5
- Salem
- Salem
- San Jose
- Sea Girt
- Shookus
- Sindia
- Slabs
- General Slocum
- Southern Sword
- Townsend's Inlet
- Varanger
- Wayne
- Wily Fox
- YP-387
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Delaware Bay Artificial Reef
1.13 sq miles
Depth: 22-27 ft [download]
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Delaware Artificial Reefs
Delaware has a string of artificial reef sites in the Delaware bay, but they are of little interest to divers. Most of the sites are quite shallow and perilously close to the shipping lanes, several of them were actually reduced for this reason. The conditions in the bay are hardly good for diving. The reefs consist mostly of concrete rubble from construction in Philadelphia and other cities on the river. Also shown is New Jersey's sole artificial reef in the bay.
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DelJerseyLand Inshore Artificial Reef
26 Nautical Miles from Indian River Inlet, 1.51 sq miles
Depth: 120-140 ft [download]
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- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner, USA
- Built:
- 1904, Deering & Donnell, Bath ME USA
- Specs:
- ( 259 x 45 ft ) 2088 gross tons, 10 crew
- Sunk:
- Wednesday August 14, 1918
shelled by U-117 - no casualties - Depth:
- 60 ft
low debris field mostly buried in the sand
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- Type:
- shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
- Sunk:
- early 1960s
- Depth:
- 50 ft
aka "Southern Pet Wreck"
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- Type:
- shipwreck, tugboat, USA
- Built:
- 1902, Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia PA USA as Charles E. Matthews
- Specs:
- ( 91 x 22 ft ) 164 gross tons, 11 crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday December 9, 1917
foundered in storm - no survivors - Depth:
- 25 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, tanker
- Depth:
- 40 ft
The Evening Star or 'Pig Iron Wreck' appears to be the remains of a tanker that ran aground and broke up. The wreck sits in 40 ft of water and is scattered over a relatively large area.
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Garden State South Artificial Reef
5.1 Nautical Miles off Spray Beach, 0.74 sq miles
Depth: 55-65 ft [download]
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Possibly the most preposterous artifact that has ever been recovered is one of the masts from the Lightship Relief. Over 50 ft long and weighing some 6000 pounds, the mast was recovered by divers in 1976 and set up in front of a dive shop in Laurence Harbor. ( It was called "Diver's Cove". )
The dive shop has long since closed, and the huge mast now lies off to the side, a rusting eyesore. The present owner of the property claims it is a registered historic landmark. Apparently not so - as of March 2008 it was hauled away as garbage. Better that it had just been left in the sea, but this is the fate of many divers' "artifacts."
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