- Type:
- artificial reef, tugboat
- Built:
- 1939, Slidell LA as Rowen Card
- Specs:
- ( 106 x 26 ft ) 263 tons
- Sponsor:
- Ann E Clark Foundation
- Sunk:
- Thursday Sept 25, 2003 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 39°58.004' -74°10.721'
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Deepwater Artificial Reef
- Type:
- artificial reef, drydock gate
- Specs:
- ( 150 ft )
- Sunk:
- Friday June 8, 2020 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 39°58.300' -74°10.900'
- Depth:
- 125 ft
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- Type:
- artificial reef, tugboat, US Navy
- Specs:
- ( 100 ft ) 260 LDT
- Sponsor:
- Abyss Dive Club
- Sunk:
- Thursday Sept 25, 2003 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 39°57.984' -74°10.771'
- Depth:
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- Type:
- artificial reef, barge
- Built:
- 1950, Wilmington, DE USA
- Specs:
- ( 224 x 38 ft )
- Sponsor:
- BassBarn.com, Ann E Clark Foundation, PSE&G Habitat Restoration Fund
- Sunk:
- Thursday Sept 5, 2002 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 39°58.688' -74°11.410'
- Depth:
- 120 ft
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- Type:
- 250 "Redbird" subway cars - NYC Subway system - steel bodies / frames
- Built:
- 1959-1960 - American Car & Foundry - Model R26 # 7750-7859
1960-1961 - American Car & Foundry - Model R28 # 7860-7959
1962-1963 - St. Louis Car - Model R29 # 8570-8805
1962-1963 - St. Louis Car - Model R33 # 8806-9345
1963-1964 - St. Louis Car - Model R36 # 9346-9769 - Specs:
- ( 51 x 9 ft ) 15,000 to 18,000 pounds (body)
- Sunk:
- 50 cars - Cape May Reef on July 3, 2003
50 cars - Deepwater Reef on July 16, 2003
50 cars - Atlantic City Reef on July 25, 2003
50 cars - Garden State North Reef on Sept 3, 2003
50 cars - Shark River Reef on Oct 14, 2003
619 cars - Delaware Reef 11 from Aug 2001 to Nov 2003 - Sponsor:
- New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
- anti-
Sponsor: - Environmental group Clean Ocean Action lobbied aggressively and almost successfully to prevent the use of these subway cars as artificial reefs in New Jersey, resulting in most of the cars going to other states.
- GPS:
- too many to list, and all gone anyway
- Depth:
- Depths vary by location between 80 ft and 130 ft.
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- Type:
- artificial reef, T1-M-A2 tanker, gasoline
- Built:
- 1944 Bayonne NJ USA as USS Ochlockonee AOG-33
- Specs:
- ( 244 x 37 ft ) tonnage unknown after lengthening
- Sponsor:
- Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association, PSE&G Habitat Restoration Fund, friends of Walt Hendee, Ann E Clark Foundation
- Sunk:
- Thursday Sept 5, 2002 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 38°58.385' -74°11.429'
- Depth:
- 135 ft
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The heavyweight cold-water wetsuit is probably responsible for the premature demise of more nascent diving careers than any other factor. These awful things are simply uncomfortable and ineffective. For all the stiffness, squeezing, bulk, and extra weight of 5-7mm wetsuit, in the end, it really doesn't keep you warm, and most cold-water wetsuit divers are pretty miserable creatures. I have seen the constriction and topside overheating of one of these things make its poor wearer sick on dry land, never mind on a boat out at sea.
For an excellent guide to drysuit use, pick up a copy of DUI's drysuit owner's manual, available at most dealers for under $10.
The argument that heavy cold-water wetsuits are easier to use is patently false. A wetsuit has a mind of its own and will make wide depth-dependant swings in buoyancy over which the wearer has no control. How is that better than a drysuit, which the user can consciously trim for constant buoyancy during the descent, and which semi-automatically trims itself during ascent?
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