Great Egg Artificial Reef
7.2 Nautical Miles off Atlantic City
Depth: 50-70 ft [download]
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Dive Sites (17/46)
- 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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Ocean waves are created by wind ( in unique instances, waves may also be created by earthquake, landslide, or other major disturbance, but that does not concern us here. ) The factors in the mechanics of wave creation are wind speed and duration, and fetch.
Fetch is the distance over which the wind acts on the water. The longer the fetch, the greater the wave-building action. Similarly, the greater the wind speed, the greater the wave-building action. Winds are named for the direction they blow from, not to. Therefore, a west wind blows out of the west, toward the east. Predicting wave heights based on wind conditions is even today extremely imprecise - the weather service still gets it wrong about half the time.
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