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Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
Now, most people would look at the heading on the page and think that I was crazy for diving near a nuclear power plant. Just to calm your fears, this power plant was never brought online, so there is no chance of getting radiated at this location (barring a nuclear war while you're diving). With that said, Shoreham can be a very interesting dive. Located on the north shore of Long Island (I don't know the name of the town, look on a map), it is a shallow dive with an average depth of around 16 ft. Visibility tends to be anywhere from 3 to 10 ft.
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The Shrewsbury Rocks are a wide area of rocky bottom that stretches from fourteen feet of water out to the fifty-foot mark off of Monmouth Beach. Some of the formations are twenty feet tall or more and can be very pretty under good conditions, which are unfortunately seldom this far north. The stone itself is a type of sandstone known as Greensand.
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- Type:
- shipwreck, sailing ship
- Specs:
- 1000 tons, 20 crew
- Sunk:
- Saturday January 6, 1877
foundered in storm - no casualties
wooden, alternately buried and exposed
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- Type:
- shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
- Built:
- 1887, Ireland
- Specs:
- ( 329 x 45 ft ) 3068 gross tons, 34 crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday December 15, 1901
ran aground in storm - no casualties - Depth:
- 0-5 ft depending on the tide
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16-Fathom Artificial Reef
13 nautical miles southwest of Fire Island Inlet, 1.33 sq miles
Depth: 85 to 103 feet
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Smithtown Artificial Reef
1.6 nautical miles northwest of Stony Brook Harbor, 0.05 sq miles
Depth: 30 - 40 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer
- Specs:
- 2388 tons
- Sunk:
- Friday August 20, 1920
collision with barge Pottsville - no casualties - Depth:
- 60 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, England
- Built:
- 1906, England
- Specs:
- ( 340 x 47 ft ) 3875 gross tons, 31 crew
- Sunk:
- Monday August 12, 1918
torpedoed by U-117 - no casualties - Depth:
- 180 ft
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A metal is a chemical element displaying certain properties by which it is normally distinguished from a nonmetal, notably its metallic luster, the capacity to lose electrons and form a positive ion, and the ability to conduct heat and electricity. The metals comprise about two-thirds of the known elements. Some metals, including copper, tin, iron, lead, gold, silver, and mercury, were known to the ancients; copper is probably the oldest known metal.
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