Depth: 50-70 ft
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Dive Sites (17/45)
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Depth: 50-70 ft
- Type:
- shipwreck, tugboat, U.S. War Shipping Administration (Navy)
- Name:
- All the ships of this class were named for lighthouses in the U.S., except for the Great Isaac, which is in the Bahamas.
- Built:
- 1944, Boston MA USA
- Specs:
- ( 185 x 37 ft ) 1117 gross tons, 27 crew
- Sunk:
- Wednesday April 16, 1947
collision with Norwegian freighter Bandeirante - no casualties - Depth:
- 90 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, tanker, USA ( Gulf Oil )
- Name:
- One of a series of ships owned by Gulf Oil company, all named "Gulf ____"
- Built:
- 1920, Chester PA USA
- Specs:
- ( 430 x 59 ft ) 6776 gross tons, 34 crew
- Sunk:
- Tuesday March 10, 1942
torpedoed by U-588 - 18 casualties - Depth:
- bow - 60 ft ; stern - 90 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, tugboat, USA
- Built:
- 1888, camden NJ USA, as Douglas H. Thomas
- Specs:
- ( 97 x 21 ft ) 148 tons, 9 crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday December 30, 1962
cause unknown - no survivors - Depth:
- 40 ft, starts at 20 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, England
- Built:
- 1927, England
- Specs:
- ( 347 x 52 ft ) 3915 gross tons, 26 crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday May 3, 1942
collision with freighter Voco ( 5090 tons) - 6 casualties - Depth:
- 70 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge(s)
- Sunk:
- late 1800s
- Depth:
- 80 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner
- Depth:
- 115 ft
The Happy Days appears to be the remains of a wooden schooner. The Happy Days sits in 115 feet of water just east of the G&D wreck. According to Jimmy Fazzolare this wreck consists of scattered wreckage with one mast stump sticking up. Jim reports that the wrecks bell was recovered by one of the Aquarians Club divers. Unfortunately, the bell did not have the wreck's name on it. Visibility here is often hampered by sediment from a silty bottom. Jim reports that this wreck is one of the best lobster wrecks in the area.
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Human Vision Underwater
When light travels from a less-dense medium like air to a more-dense medium like water, the rays are refracted or bent towards the normal or perpendicular of the surface between the two mediums. In crude terms, light going from air to water will tend to be straightened, while light going from water to air will tend to be ... um ... crookeded. Confused yet? Take a look at the figure below.
In this figure, you can see the light rays traveling from an object in the water to your eyes, neglecting the effect of the flat glass lens of your mask. The blue lines trace the actual path of the light rays through the water and into the air, or conversely, through the air into the water - the direction really doesn't matter. As you can see, the rays are bent toward the perpendicular of the surface on the water side, and away from it on the air side.
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