Dive Sites (13/45) ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Dive Sites (13/45)

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Dual Wrecks

Shipwreck Rusland — The *Rusland*, aground, with onlookers.

Type:: Adonis - shipwreck, wood-hulled bark
Rusland - shipwreck, iron-hulled steamer, England
Built:: Adonis - 1853, Germany
Rusland - 1872, Scotland, as Kenilworth
Specs:: Adonis - 550 tons, 12 crew
Rusland - ( 345 x 37 ft ) 2538 gross tons, ~200 passengers & crew
Depth:: 25 ft
Sunk:: Adonis - Tuesday March 8, 1859 - ran aground in bad weather, no casualties
Rusland - Saturday March 17, 1877 - ran aground in bad weather, no casualties

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Duncan

Type:: shipwreck, steamer
Depth:: 80 ft

A very small wreck, consisting of a primitive single-cylinder steam engine and a large, completely broken-down boiler. Odd pieces of pipe and machinery lie around, but no remains of a hull, although there appears to be some iron plating under the engine. Guessing from the technology, the construction would date to around 1860 +/- 10 years, and the sinking would have been sometime after that.

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Durley Chine

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, England
Built:: 1913, England
Specs:: ( 279 x 40 ft ) 1918 gross tons, 28 crew
Sunk:: Sunday April 30, 1917
collision with steamer Harlem - no casualties
Depth:: 185 ft

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East Rockaway Inlet / Beach 8th Street

The dive site is between 8th and 9th Streets (marker at upper-left)
Atlantic Beach bridge at right, inlet and ocean to the left (west)
In Queens borough, New York City!

East Rockaway Inlet is also known as Deb's Inlet, while New Yorkers optimistically, or perhaps ironically, call the Beach 8th Street dive site Almost Paradise. (Actually the name of a long-defunct dive shop there.) It is also referred to as Beach 9th Street. If that's not enough names for the same place, the waterway is officially called Reynold's Channel. So I suppose you could make six different entries in your logbook.

Beach 8th Street is the only part of the inlet that is accessible to divers, the rest is either private property or state park land where diving is prohibited. You can zoom, pan, and maximize the map above. The inlet is off to the left, marshland to the right, and Kennedy Airport above.

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