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Shipwreck Lemuel Burrows
Type:
shipwreck, collier, USA
Built:
1917, New York Shipbuilding, Camden NJ USA, as Deepwater
Specs:
( 437 x 63 ft ) 7610 gross tons, 34 crew
Sunk:
Saturday March 14, 1942
torpedoed by U-404 - 20 casualties
Depth:
80 ft

Little Egg Artificial Reef

4.0 Nautical Miles off Holgate
Depth: 50-60 ft [download]



Type:
shipwreck, sailing ships
Sunk:
Sunday April 16, 1854
foundered in storm
Depth:
35 ft

The packet ship Manhattan sank with eight of her nine crew. In the same storm, the 200 ft schooner Powhattan was also lost nearby, with over 350 immigrants on board and no survivors. Neither wreck has been positively identified, although there are several candidates, including one old wooden hull buried up to the gunwales in the sand.



Shipwreck SS Mohawk
Not to be confused with the other S.S. Mohawk or the R.C. Mohawk.
Type:
liner, Clyde Line, USA
Name:
A tribe of Iroquoian Indians of the eastern New York area.
Built:
1908, Cramp Shipbuilding, Philadelphia PA USA
Specs:
( 367 x 48 ft ) 4623 tons, 290 passengers & crew
Sunk:
Thursday January 1, 1925
burned in a storm - no casualties
GPS:
40°25.025' -73°45.158' (AWOIS)
Depth:
25 ft

Shipwreck Montgomery
Type:
shipwreck, steamer, USA
Built:
1858, Westervelt & Son, New York NY USA
Specs:
( 198 x 29 ft ) 1100 gross tons
Sunk:
Sunday January 7, 1877
collision with schooner Seminole - 13 casualties
Depth:
150 ft


Sandbar Shark
Sandbar Shark
New Jersey State Aquarium - Camden

Volunteer divers at the aquarium assist with food preparation, cleaning and maintaining work area and exhibits, perform dive demonstrations, and assist aquarists when necessary. Volunteer must be a certified diver age 18 years and older with at least 25 logged dives; 5 in the last 2 years and 2 in the last 12 months. Volunteer must be able to commit to 2 eight-hour work shifts per month ( same day every other week. ) Volunteer applications are available at the information desk.


Type:
shipwreck, barge
Built:
1918
Specs:
1267 tons
Sunk:
Sunday December 10, 1933
foundered in rough seas
Depth:
70 ft

low lying wood & metal debris field



I'm from [ Ohio, Florida, Michigan, California, Spain, Brazil, etc ] and will be vacationing in New Jersey and would like to go diving ...

I get this inquiry all the time. Diving here, compared to most vacation destinations, is cold, dark, deep, strenuous, and difficult. Chances are, if you already own all the cold water gear, and dive with it where you live, then you will be ok here. I'm talking about folks from Canada, New England, the UK, and Scandinavia, and similar places where cold-water ocean diving is practiced. On the other hand, doing a few cold-water dives in a quarry in Ohio ( or wherever ) is in no way qualification for the North Atlantic.

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